Research- Teenage film genre

The teen genre is a film genre that is aimed at teenagers and their particular interests. These topics include coming of age, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents and high school emenies, crushes, best friends , individuality and alienation. Often many serious issues from life are presented by filmakers as glossy and sterotyped. This genre is set in high schools as the audience it is targeted at are usually high school age. Sexual themes are also very common as are nudity and crude forms of humour and slapstick moments.
The commonly used sterotyped characters include:

• The jock or footballer
• The princess or the plastic
• The geek
• The rebel
• The outcast or misfit
• The average girl or boy
• The girl next door

These listed above are examples of all the steroypical high school cliques. Conventions of a teen film genre depend on the cultural context, but however they do always seem to include proms or beach parties, underage drinking, use of illegal substances, all night raves, high school parties , loosing a characters virginity, social groups, first time relationships, and the latest american music and pop culture around at the time.

examples of teen films are:

• Dude? wheres my car?
• Never been kissed
• Mean girls
• The girl next door
• American pie series
• slap her...shes french
• new york minute
• Dirty deeds
• The dukes of hazard
• Charlie Bartlett
• Juno
• John Tucker must die
• Sex Drive
• 17 again
• house party
• Van Wilder