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