Genre and Convention
A teen film targets towards teenagers, normally focusing on teenage life. The concept teenagers orginated back in the 1950s, it started after the war ended. The concept became a marketing invention for society, using the 'teenagers' as a a re-development strategy, allowing to help with economic growth.
The conventional teen drama normally focuses on teenage life show a transitional changes in their lives. Changes such as first love, coming of age, friendship and family conflict. Depending on the plot of the movie, a teen movie would concentrate on a male lead or female lead. For example one of the first teen movie 'Rebel Without Cause' focuses on coming of age as the male lead begins to learn more about himself through his mistakes and choices he makes. We see that he experiences love but also family issues, showing a relateable story to the audience. But that has all changed as movies has focused on giving the teenagers a sterotypical view on being wild and irresponsable. Also the focus on teenage cliques has been a key feature in any teen movie where, within a school there would be a series cliques where depending on your popularity and what you do e.g cheerleader, jock, geek this would then determind what group you socialised in.
A movie dated back such as 'A walk to remeber' shows you what was the typical teenage movie was like back then. 'A walk to remember' shows you a deeper meaning, touching the heart of the audience.
Where as movie such as 'mean girls' show you what is protrayed now. 'Mean girls' has a moral behind it but can be lost within the movie due to some many other problems occuring in the movie. The use of the 'bitchy' vibe in the movie makes it more enterianing for modern teenagers to watch.
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