The Eighties Teen Movie Vs. The Nineties Teen Movie
In John Lewis’s book, The Road to Romance and Ruin, he defines the teen movie as “the principle mass mediated discourse of youth; a discourse that rather glibly and globally re-presents youth as a culture” (p. 2). In using the term “teen movie” this does not refer to a movie geared towards teens, but instead to movies about teens. The 1980’s gave us many teen movies, such as Pretty in Pink, Better Off Dead, Say Anything, The Breakfast Club, and Can’t Buy Me Love, which have become classics to the twenty-somethings of today. These were movies usually involving two teens from different classes most likely, and the impossible love that they find not-so-impossible. Joseph Reed, in Ameri
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