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Media Studies - Hollywood Film
Seminal texts - Teen films
Watch the following clips/trailers. Make notes on how the genre has developed over time.
Rebel Without a Cause
This film is regarded as the one of the most important films to foreground teen representation. How far is the representation relevant?
The Breakfast Club
Thirty Years later, writer/director John Hughes’ films mythologised the teenage experience. What sort of archetypes can you recognise from the genre in this trailer?
Kidulthood
British films tend to be grittier than the American counterparts. In what ways does this film differ to what we have seen so far, and in what ways could it be similar?