Film Review : Teen Scene

In an essay published in the New Yorker in May 1999, entitled “High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies,” writer David Denby analyzes movies targeted towards teenagers and the stereotypes associated with them. He begins his essay by describing the archetypal characters in high school genre films: the vapid popular girl and her athletic male counterpart, and the intellectual outsider and her awkward male counterpart. He then describes the reality of teen life, and compares it to the experience depicted in these films. Next, he analyzes the common theme that the geeky characters are the protagonists, and suggests there are such because of their writer's personal experience and a history of geeks being ostracized. Finally, Denby analyzes the tropes in

When you picture a teenager you picture fighting, drinking, or answering back, am I right? However, this is simply not the case. Sure there is the minority of trouble makers. However this minority is exaggerated due to the news showing only this behaviour. This stereotyping has found its audience and crept into television shows and series. This has led to the creation of a mockumentary called “Summer Heights High” which has unfairly represented teen

The media portrays adolescents in television shows as being rebellious, sex crazed, and unreasonable people. Freaks and Geeks, created by Paul Feig and produced by Feig, himself, and Judd Apatow, is a one hour TV show that aired on NBC from 1999-2000. The show centers around the siblings, Sam and Lindsay Weir, and their friends while they all attend McKinley High School. Freaks and Geeks is a show that portray adolescents in a way that the media doesn’t because of the lessons the characters have to learn , the choices that they choose to take, and the struggles they have to endure.

These Rez members took to most logical place for teenagers to voice their discontent: Twitter; and of course through this almost anonymous platform, their words became increasingly revolting. Students referred to Waln as a “sh*tty rapper” and crafted posts to rally support from fellow study-body members.

“Web series” is an apt title for this new genre of performing arts entertainment. Though acting, dancing, singing, and production are non-virtual by nature, the Internet touched all aspects of this 10-episode, 100-minute series. Fundraising, casting, production, set location, video editing — even song writing — were accomplished via

I chose the movie “Spring Breakers”, to illustrate how sexism, rape culture, and sexual assault play an enormous role in society. The movie is about 4 college best friends, Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Faith (Selena Gomez), Brit (Ashley Benson) and Cotty (Rachel Korine) , who are in need of money so they can go to Florida for their spring-break trip. The girls end up robbing a diner and they head down to Florida. However, the police soon find the group of girls and arrest them. The four college girls are then bailed out of jail by drug dealer and aspiring rap artist, Alien (James Franco). Afterwards, Faith cannot handle the pressure of being a “bad girl” and decides to go home. The other three girls decide to join Alien in a life of crime.

Sara Magee’s article, “High School is Hell: The TV Legacy of Beverly Hills, 90210, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (2014), argues that both television shows positively changed and impacted teen-based programs during and after their air time. Magee supports this claim by providing descriptions of how teens were depicted in teen-based dramas prior to the 1990’s and how these two shows introduced controversial topics that made teens think about their actions. Magee’s purpose is to point out how these two shows broke the norms of traditional teen dramas that focused on the ideal teen lifestyle in order to show that Beverly Hills, 90210 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer are the predecessors of controversial teen dramas of the 21st century. Based on the

“Whatever it takes… I know I can make it through.” When your ears awakened to this catchy theme song, it was inevitable that Degrassi: The Next Generation was on-air. Televised from all aspects of the department of education; parents, students and faculty. You receive a depiction of reality as well as a true insight of transforming through a conditioned environment; an educated institution. Degrassi has been popular for decades, continuously creating new sub-series maintaining an engagement with their viewers. The lives of the students at Degrassi Community School dealing with the serious and sometimes taboo issues that plague teenagers. Not to mention countless small films in between all of the different variations

The theme depicted in this episode is a valid criticism of today’s current society. The rating system is similar to most social media applications such as Instagram. On Instagram, people can like other people’s pictures and follow them. Having more followers and likes can increase a person’s popularity so people post pictures that will get more likes. However, most of these pictures are fake and created specifically for getting more likes. People make their life seem all happy and perfect, just like how the rating forces people to act friendly all the time. In, both cases, a person’s true life and emotions are hidden. Most of the time, even the friendship pictures on Instagram are deceiving, just like Naomi and Lacie’s because they are only

Stories of teenage years and coming-of-age have always enrapt children, teens, and adults alike. But why do they? These groups share virtually none of the same interests, and reside in very different emotional levels of life. In every other form of media, these groups can scarcely coexist—the prospect of watching Power Rangers for the six hundredth time would make any parent blanch, and the thought of their four year old asking to borrow his parents’ copy of The Canterbury Tales is laughable. And surely no other age group would condemn themselves so deeply to internet culture than teens. Coming of age stories, however, are the exception. Nadine Gordimer beautifully explains this phenomenon in her short story “A Company of Laughing Faces”.

These are your 18 -21 year-olds whose main troubles in life involve love, relationship, sex, pregnancy, money, peers and influence. They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned underneath the show's exploitation.

From there, you went on to create UP's first scripted show Ties That Bind. Where did you get the idea for that show? How long did it take to pitch that show?

Even though its target audience were thought to be primarily children, the unpredictable show functioning as a morality tale with not an overly preachy tone has certainly attracted a fanbase of mainly young adults with its absurd humour, weirdness, emotional complexity, the subject matter of friendship, intimacy, individuality and discovering one’s self-worth all the while subliminally touching upon some serious issues and themes such as feminist

I remember when I first watched High School Musical the movie. I knew all the words and choreography to every song and dance they showed during the movie. As a kid, I was excited to go to high school because of the movies I’ve seen about it, high school musical in particular; and they made it look awesome. However, when I got to high school it was nothing like the movies. High School Musical with a plot similar to a modern Romeo and Juliet, is a teen comedy starring two students from opposite social groups who eventually fall in love. Troy Bolton who is played by Zac Efron, is the captain of the basketball team and is known as the definition of “cool” at East High School. While Gabriella Montez played by Vanessa Hudgens, is a transfer student who is in love with mathematics and science, is trying to figure out where she fits in at East High School.

Young adults go through many changes during their adolescent developmental years, including cognitive, emotional, and social development. Isabella Swan, the main character of the movie Twilight, shows the audience a great visual representation of how she goes through emerging adulthood. Isabella, or Bella for short, is a teen girl in high school who just moved to a new city, Forks, Washington, with her father whom she had not seen since she was a child. After her mom made the decision to move from their home in Arizona and travel the country with her husband who played baseball, Bella was shipped off to her dad’s to finish out high school like a “normal kid.”