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Teen Movie Genre

Teen Movie Genre. What are Teen Movies?. Teen Movies are centered around the issues of love, relationships, and growing up. Teen movies often include themes of fun, craziness, and teenage optimism. . What are Teen Movies?.

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Teen Movie Genre

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  1. Teen Movie Genre

  2. What are Teen Movies? • Teen Movies are centered around the issues of love, relationships, and growing up. • Teen movies often include themes of fun, craziness, and teenage optimism.

  3. What are Teen Movies? • Teen movies are films that both shape popular culture and are also shaped through popular culture.

  4. Plot • In the typical Teen Movie, a teen must overcome some personal obstacle that makes him/her a better person. Sometimes that obstacle is the adult nemesis and other times it’s just typical teen drama. • Sometimes, the teen serves as a guide for other troubled friends.

  5. Consumers of Teen Movies • Young People (Teens) • Adults (Nostalgia factor) • Adults (Content/Controversy)

  6. Setting • High School • Prom • Shopping Mall • Parties

  7. Characters • Jock/Cool Guy • Sensitive Guy/Nerdy type • Cheerleader/Popular Girl • Ugly Girl (transformed to beautiful) • Surfer/Stoner • Outcast • Teen Nemesis: Principal, Parent, Etc.

  8. Teen Movies: 1980’s • The Breakfast Club • St. Elmo’s Fire • Pretty in Pink • Sixteen Candles • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off • Fast Times at Ridgemont High

  9. Teen Movies: 1990’s - Today • Clueless • 10 Things I Hate About You • Mean Girls • American Pie • She’s All That • Varsity Blues

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