Youth in film

Youth in Film Essay


Films are a influential medium. Many people in the American society teach themselves using films as their lead. The films, “Rebel without a cause”, “Grease”, and “Valley Girl”, all are films which create perspectives of the nature of youth. Each of these films has stereotypes to show a view of youth according to the film that may hurt the view of youth today. A common stereotype these films share are that the students that seem that they party all the time are bad students.
A stereotype is an image made from a person just by looking at some other person. When a person sees someone and makes his opinion at the moment for what the person is like, he’s stereotyping; (molding a stereotype of the person in his head). The stereotypes can be divided among the sub groups in the movie and other youth. The partying side of the film’s youth is observed by most people as youth with no life that are bad students because they don’t ...