iconography
structure :
teen movies- a rite of passage story
could manifest in change
also power structures within high school setting
theme: need to belong to a group
the importance of popularity


GENERAL STAGES
1st stage the primitive, the early version and the genres characteristics are first established
2nd stage the classical, the rules have been worked out and filmmakers are sticking to the rules and the genre are at its peak, very popular
3rd stage the revisionist, the genre is revisioned which scrutinized often in a critical way, the conventions that typify the genre.we start to see films we might not expect
4th stage the parodic in which the genre is satirized on a consciously self- reflective tongue n cheek manner


ANDREW TUDOR "A genre...defines a moral and social world"

origins of the teenager
identified as ADOLESCENTS