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- The appearance of actual adolescents in movies was not common until the 1930s. By that point Hollywood studios had firmly established their grip on American culture, and even more so on their contract players. But they had difficulty in maintaining public interest in young stars, who inevitably grew out of their youthful charms.
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Sep 18, 2024 · In this article, we’ll explore how teen movies have changed in the past decade and the impact these changes have had on the genre. 1. Embracing Diversity. One of the most notable changes in teen movies over the past decade has been the embrace of diversity and representation.
- Early Teen Films
- The Emergence of Teen Cinema
- The 1980s Resurgence
- Since The 1990s
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The appearance of actual adolescents in movies was not common until the 1930s. By that point Hollywood studios had firmly established their grip on American culture, and even more so on their contract players. But they had difficulty in maintaining public interest in young stars, who inevitably grew out of their youthful charms. This was the case w...
The output of teen films into the early 1950s was rather meager, although America's fascination with juvenile delinquency (JD) never disappeared altogether. In 1949 two significant JD films began to renew interest in the cinematic subgenre: City Across the River intended to shock its audience by directly addressing the problem ofteen crime, and Kno...
Teen films went through a conspicuous resurgence in the 1980s, a time without social upheaval and yet during which teen experimentation with sex and drugs was on the increase. Films began to reflect this trend. MTV, a new and comprehensive system for reaching the teen market through not only music videos but concerts, clothing, game shows, live eve...
By the mid-1990s, the visibility of teen films clearly increased from the previous ten years, with successful television shows providing Hollywood with new teen stars, and with a renewed comfort in the industry for handling adolescent issues. Teen films of the mid- to late-1990s began looking at sexual orientation, gender discrimination, and the po...
Considine, David. The Cinema of Adolescence. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1985. Doherty, Thomas. Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988. Gateward, Frances, and Murray Pomerance, eds. Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2002. Le...
Jun 12, 2014 · The concept of a teenager historically emerges in the 1950’s, and with it came one of the first coming-of-age films, Rebel Without a Cause (1955). The genre continued to develop in the 1960s, as those who grew up with the movies, experiencing its Golden Age, became adults and came to see their own coming-of-age as film worthy.
Aug 4, 2022 · The 1980s was a golden age for high-school teen movies, the bulk of which were created by John Hughes and include films like The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Shary’s Teen Movies presents a strikingly different history, locating teen film’s infancy in 1895-1948, its early adolescence in 1949-67, its later (rebellious) adolescence in 1968-79, supplemented by a rebirth in 1978-95, and a coda of new teen film speculations in 1994-2004.
Sep 6, 2023 · Here is the definitive teen movie of each decade thus far. 1950s: Rebel Without a Cause. Warner Brothers. Rebel Without a Cause was released in 1955 and starred heartthrob, James Dean. Dean's...
Aug 24, 2023 · The late 90s and early 2000s saw a surge in Teen Movies like American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You, and Mean Girls. Westerns like Unforgiven and Dances with Wolves held strong appeal...
