Teensploitation
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| + | "We had no [[parents]] in them, that's one of the important things. We never had any parents in the [[Beach party film |"Beach" pictures]]. [...] The ideal world for a teenager is a parentless existence. No parents to shout at 'em, no parents to lecture at 'em, no adults to rule them, to teach them, to mock them, to jail them. That was really what it was all about."--[[Samuel Z. Arkoff]] in ''[[Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies]]'' (2001) | ||
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| + | "We made ''[[I Was a Teenage Werewolf]]'', ''[[I Was a Teenage Caveman]]'', ''[[I Was a Teenage Frankenstein]]''. The word "[[teenage]]," to the best of my knowledge, had never appeared on any picture throughout the world prior to that time. Because the teenagers had never been recognized as other than the category of children."--[[Samuel Z. Arkoff]] in ''[[Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies]]'' (2001) | ||
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| '''[[Teensploitation|Teensploitation films]]''': the exploitation of teenagers by the producers of teen-oriented films, with plots involving drugs, sex, alcohol and crime. The word ''Teensploitation'' first appeared in a show business publication in 1982 and was included in the ''Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary'' for the first time in 2004. The films of [[Larry Clark]], ''[[Bully (film)|Bully]]'', ''[[Ken Park]]'' and ''[[Kids (film)|Kids]]'' are probably the best-known teensploitation films. | '''[[Teensploitation|Teensploitation films]]''': the exploitation of teenagers by the producers of teen-oriented films, with plots involving drugs, sex, alcohol and crime. The word ''Teensploitation'' first appeared in a show business publication in 1982 and was included in the ''Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary'' for the first time in 2004. The films of [[Larry Clark]], ''[[Bully (film)|Bully]]'', ''[[Ken Park]]'' and ''[[Kids (film)|Kids]]'' are probably the best-known teensploitation films. | ||
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"We had no parents in them, that's one of the important things. We never had any parents in the "Beach" pictures. [...] The ideal world for a teenager is a parentless existence. No parents to shout at 'em, no parents to lecture at 'em, no adults to rule them, to teach them, to mock them, to jail them. That was really what it was all about."--Samuel Z. Arkoff in Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001) "We made I Was a Teenage Werewolf, I Was a Teenage Caveman, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein. The word "teenage," to the best of my knowledge, had never appeared on any picture throughout the world prior to that time. Because the teenagers had never been recognized as other than the category of children."--Samuel Z. Arkoff in Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001) |
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Teensploitation films: the exploitation of teenagers by the producers of teen-oriented films, with plots involving drugs, sex, alcohol and crime. The word Teensploitation first appeared in a show business publication in 1982 and was included in the Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary for the first time in 2004. The films of Larry Clark, Bully, Ken Park and Kids are probably the best-known teensploitation films.
American International Pictures made films for the teenage market from the 1950s on. The Pom Pom Girls was the inspiration behind slasher horror films and The Beatniks is a film with "familiar tropes found in straight-up 1950s juvenile delinquency teensploitation." The depictions of American teens, female relationships and free-flowing narrative, topics are featured like dating, sex, hanging out, disobedience, etc., of "Halloween and The Pom Pom Girls became standard elements of the slasher film." Teensploitation films, an era of teen sex comedies from the 80s, featuring gratuitous nudity. Some of the films are: The Last American Virgin, Private Lessons (1981), Animal House (1978), Heaven Help Us (1985), Spring Break (1983), Hot Resort (1985), Porkys, Surf II, Meatballs (1979), Summer Camp (1979), King Frat (1979), Private School (1983), Screwballs (1983), and Loose Screws (1985). The teen-adjacent sexploitation genre was born out of teensploitation, B-movie director Roger Corman was inspired to make many films about sexy teachers, sexy nurses, and many more. The Stewardesses (1969), Swedish Fly Girls (1971), The Swinging Stewardesses (1971), The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974), Fly Me (1973), Flying Acquaintances (1973), The Naughty Stewardesses (1975), Blazing Stewardesses (1975), Stewardess School (1986), The Bikini Carwash Company (1992) and Party Plane (1991). Lesser known: Computer Beach Party and Hamburger: The Motion Picture.
