Timeline and changes over time of teen angst films

Timeline and changes over time of teen angst films

 

Timeline

Footloose     1984     Herbert Ross

Sixteen Candles     1984     John Hughes

Mischief     1985     Mel Damski

The Breakfast Club     1985     John Hughes

Can’t Buy Me Love     1987     Steve Rash

Loverboy     1989     John Micklin Silver

Clueless     1995     Amy Heckerling

Mean Girls     2004     Mark Waters

Easy A     2010     Will Gluck

The Inbetweeners     2011     Ben Palmer
 

Changes over time

Throughout the years, the genre of Teen Angst has changed a lot. A major example of this is the fact that the older films were more associated with teenagers and their feelings towards the opposite gender whereas nowadays a lot of them are to do with social status and where the characters fit in in their environment which is - more often than not – a school. The setting has remained fairly consistent throughout the years the genre has been around, but there have still been some different settings including: foreign countries for example.