The Breakfast Club is a quintessential teen film. This book
analyzes how multiple factors coalesced to solidify the status of
The Breakfast Club as one of the most emblematic films of the 1980s
and one of the most definitive teen films of the genre. The film
brings together genre-defining elements - the conflicts between
generations and peer pressure, archetypical characters and breaking
down stereotypes, the celebration and survival of adolescence, and
the importance of this time in life on the coming-of-age process -
and became a significant moment for John Hughes as an auteur and
for teen films in the 1980s. More than just embodying these
elements of the genre, filmmaker Hughes and the Brat Pack stars
helped introduce and popularize multiple generic features that
would come to be expected with the teen film formula. The content
of the film combined with its context of production in the middle
of a boom in teen filmmaking in Hollywood. Meanwhile, the marketing
that focused on contemporary music, peer group dynamics, and
oppositions between Generation X and baby boomers, merged with an
enthusiastic reception by youth audiences. Its endurance speaks to
the way the film's level of importance as a critical, commercial,
and influential film with tremendous impact has grown since its
initial debut.
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