Essays on Clueless
Clueless is a coming of age film that follows the life of Cher Horowitz a preppy rich highschooler in Beverly Hills, California. The films plot lies around Cher’s character development as she sets out to better other people with her ‘powers’ of popularity. At surface level, Cher appears to be a regular ditzy spoilt girl...
Clueless (Heckerling 1995) and The Breakfast Club (Hughes, 1985) both follow specific tropes surrounding the teen movie genre. As both are made to appeal to this specific audience, several tropes have been utilised in order to position these films as popular texts and appeal to it’s targeted audience; teenagers. While released 10 years apart, both...
Pop Cinema research essay Analyse and critically discuss the representation of female youth in any two films screened in the course. Your essay should consider the impact relevant industrial, economic and cultural factors have had on both representation and popularity, in relation to specific examples from your chosen films. Teen cinema in the late twentieth...