10 Great Films About American Youth Culture That Hit Just Right

"No one would be surprised by the notion that youth culture is a driving force in American popular entertainment. It's an accepted truth, but this idea sits in an interesting place, culture is now shaped by mass media at least as much as it drives any of its trends. This is certainly true for American youth culture and the films made about it. The idea of a distinct culture for young people is relatively new one. Taking shape and gaining recognition along with other large shifts in American consciousness in the middle of the 1950s. When we talk about teenagers in America, for decades we have been talking about a demographic heavily influenced through music, television, comic books, and of course, movies. Watching movies can tell us interesting things, intentionally or not, about when they were made, and other movies can sometimes recreate an era that we otherwise could not see."