Ferris Bueller's Day Off and the History of the Teen Film

Sarah Ward examines John Hughes' beloved ode to truancy in the context of teen cinema past and present. Additional keywords: teen films, film as text, tertiary, senior secondary, 1980s, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink, Howard Deutch, friendship, comedy, drama, Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray, The Wild One, Laslo Benedek, , Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins, American Graffiti, George Lucas, Grease, Randal Kleiser, teen comedy, Animal House, John Landis, adolescence, growing up, Porky's, Bob Clark, Meatballs, Ivan Reitman, The 400 Blows, Francois Truffaut, coming-of-age, Juno, Jason Reitman, Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, rebellion, Dead Poets Society, Peter Weir, Pleasantville, Gary Ross, The Way Way Back, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, authority, After Hours, Martin Scorsese, film history, Empire Records, Allan Moyle, Can't Hardly Wait, Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, Go, Doug Liman, Superbad, Greg Mottola, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, Peter Sollett, Project X, Nima Nourizadeh, Fun Size, Josh Schwartz.