MEDIA COOL

When I was young, we had a teenaged aunt who lived with us. She listened to rock ’n’ roll, and she used to take my brother and I to the drive-in. No pretentions of high art here. Aunt Shari took us mostly to what Alan Betrock calls “the teen exploitation film” in this book: the Beach Party movies, the motorcycle gang flicks and the hippie/psychedelic drug/protest/rock ’n’ roll films.