Teen movies:


 Iconography:
Colourful and bright settings, based in high school or college, house party, corridors and lockers, different character types, annoying teachers,


Structure:
A rite of passage narrative: moving from one social identity to another (child to adult)
Could manifest in: change




Theme:
General themes:


The need to belong to a group
The importance of popularity


Genre stages:


1st stage - The Primitive, the formative stage in which the genre's characteristics are first established.
2nd stage - the classical, the genre at its peak, with generic qualities refined.
3rd stage - the Revisionist, which scrutinizes and re-evaluates, often in a critical way, the conventions that typify the genre.
4th stage - the Parodic, in which the genre is satirized in a consciously self-reflexive, tongue-in-cheek manner.