Prom Night: Youth, Schools and Popular Culture, Amy L. Best

Best, Amy L. (2000).
Prom Night: Youth, Schools and Popular Culture.
Florence: Routledge.
978-0415924283
Genre: Non-Fiction

Best evaluates the significance of prom in American culture.
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Best provides an in-depth look at the prom-what it means in American culture and how it has affected society. She traces its role in film as well as how it is represented in other forms of media such as magazines. She conducts student interviews to inform readers about the effects of prom. Best’s text is provides an academic discussion about the prom. Readers may find a particular interest in the actions of students who challenged the stereotypical norms of prom: boycott of a segregated prom, creation of alternative proms (morps, gay proms, etc) as well as subversion of gender symbols.