What is a teen film?
A teen films is a film genre which is used to target teenagers also young adults. The plot of the film is usually based on specific interests of the modern teenagers , these are things such as the coming of age, love and relationships, puberty, conflict with parents, teen angst or alienation. Often these normally serious subject matters are presented in a glossy, stereotyped or trivialised way. Some teen films are targeted towards young males while others are targeted towards young females.
In the teen film American Pie, very common teen intrests are used throughout, the main themes used were: Love and sexual relationships, rebelion, and the most relevent teen intrest used was coming of age.
What sub genres are common?
Sub genres are genres which have been further divded to a target audience for examples only teen girls or only teen boys. Furthemore common sub genres in teen films are: Love, cops and robbers, extreme action, 'chick flicks'.
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