Teen film

Teen Film is a film genre, the targeted audience of teen film is teenagers and young adults. The setting of this genre is often set in high schools and colleges. Main themes in teen film include love, rebellion, peer pressure, conflict with parents and friends or alienation etc. This essay will discuss why teen films are so appealing to their audience. Adolescents in order to obtain peer recognition, eager to independence, strong rebellion, the establishment of self-image, teens can self-identification though

“Representations in a media text are the ways in which a film for example, portrays particular groups, communities, experiences, ideas, or topics from a particular ideological or value perspective.” The representation of youth culture in teen movies has been studied and analysed at length. “Youth culture has become the focus of considerable critical debate. But while most of the recent work is compelling, youth culture has proven to be an elusive target” (Lewis, 1992). The ways in which the attitudes

An investigation into the representation of females in teen movies over time Using examples of films set in American high schools from the past three decades I will be exploring how females are represented. The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary defines representation as “The act of presenting somebody/something in a particular way; something that shows or describes something” [Item 4]. My primary focus film is The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985) with Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995) and Mean

The Cyclical Teen Musical Film Considered by Jane Feuer to be “the only form of musical that retains widespread popularity” (123), the teen musical film is a cyclical sub-genre of the musical film that keeps coming back again and again since the 1960s, proving that it is a sub-genre here to stay. And since this is a cyclical sub-genre, its historical development is also cyclical in matter: it develops slightly throughout the cycle, as per many other film genres, but always seems to return back to

The movie American Teen is a documentary that was released in 2008. The documentary is about seniors in high school in Warsaw, Indiana. The purpose of the documentary is to focus on small cliques that develop in high school. Out of the cliques, Hannah Bailey became a person of interest. Hannah is an eighteen year old female that attends Warsaw high school. The town of Warsaw is mostly white, middle class, and Christian. Hannah is seen as the rebel or free spirit of the high school. She has a best

This paper will be about the Movie Teen Files: Surviving High School. I Chose Patrick- “the skater / suicidal” because I think that I have the most in common with him out of the other kids like, we both dress the same to a certain degree, and we both act the same. Some example of experiences that he went trow are, when he when down a part of the high school that he was not supposed to because that was the cowboys spot and a being fight broke out. In my opinion on that is stupid because students

Reflection Paper 2 For this assignment I decided to write about Teen Species: Boys which talks about development of boys through the teen and puberty years. The documentary follows five boys who are different ages in their teen years and talks about their concerns and how they’re bodies and minds are developing through this period. I picked this topic because I wanted to see how I could relate to this film. At the beginning of the film we are introduced Andy who is an eleven year old boy and Mark

The film American Teen introduced Megan Krizmanich, a blonde, popular, wealthy daughter who attends Warsaw Community High School. Megan is very active in school, she is in charge of prom committee, serves as vice president of student council, plays golf, run track and spends most of her free time with friends. Her aspiration to attend Notre Dame after high school kept this young teen at the top of her class. Although Megan was very popular, other classmates viewed her from a different perspective;

The teen film genre aims to shatter the construct or provide moments of self-discovery to symbolize how teens react against the adult world and struggles within society. At the end of the film the high school a voiceover of Brian reading out a letter written by him to Mr Vernon, the teacher, effectively embodies the teen process of finding their identity: You see us as you want to see us -- in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions: a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess,

Teen films are the definitive genre that captures the adolescent zeitgeist during the 1980s, and its popularity still hold cultural relevance in the present day. The teen films produced during the 1980s effectively represent youth concerns and the coming-of-age narrative, in terms of adolescent identity, the different roles characters play, sexuality, gender, relationships, class issues and the generational divide. Exploring these issues is essential for recognizing the cultural significance of this