Description: List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Rethinking the Teen Movie Acting Up: Performing Masculine Delinquency in the Teen Movie Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955) Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978) Heathers (Michael Lehmann, 1989) Making Over: Gender and Class at the High-School Prom Pretty in Pink (Howard Deutch, 1986) She's All That (Robert Iscove, 1999) Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004) Looking Back: Nostalgia, Postfeminism and the Teen Movie American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973) Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino, 1987) Easy A (Will Gluck, 2010) Becoming Other: The Posthuman and the Teen Movie Spider-Man (Sam Raimi, 2002) Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008) Chronicle (Josh Trank, 2012) Conclusion: Not Another Teen Movie? Bibliography Filmography

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