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Teen Movies of the 1980s Flashcards

(11 cards)

1
Q

Name three crisis’ that the United States was facing as the 1980s began?

A

American hostages were being held in Iran. Inflation was going up by double digits each year, unemployment was rising to nearly ten percent by 1982; the prime lending rate was closing in on twenty percent. The disco era was being replaced with a growing realization of class struggle.

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Many Hollywood studio films of the early 1980’s demonstrated a contempt for what?

A

Wealth

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3
Q

Name one of the films mentioned in the early part of the reading that “vilified” upper-class aspirations while vindicating those of the working-class.

A

Ordinary People (1980)

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4
Q

What is the “cause” that Jim Stark’s character in Rebel Without A Cause is searching for?

A

‘Honesty and decency in a hypocritical world.’

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While the studio-driven film industry was exploring issues finding teens “vulnerable to the tyranny of wealth,” it was also doing what toward its own service?

A

Exploiting the disposable incomes of youth.

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What Shakespearian work created the archetype for class-clash teen romances?

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Romeo and Juliet

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What “treacherous mythology” does the storyline of the film Pretty in Pink preserve?

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Young women will reject the good guy to go with the guy that has money.

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According to critic Roger Ebert, Heathers is a movie about what teenage issues?

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Peer pressure in high school, teenage suicide, and the harmfulness of cliques.

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Porky’s is a co-production originating from which two countries?

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Canada and America

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According to critic Roger Ebert, director Reginald Hudlin is compared to what accomplished filmmaker who refused to relate his characters to those of white society?

A

Spike Lee

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Teen Movie Themes

A

peer pressure: bullying, alienation, personality formation, fitting in;
sexual exploration: sexual identity, getting laid;
rebellion against authority: drinking, partying, slacking

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