One day Bruce Handy was watching a teen movie — it could have been something new or maybe a vintage John Hughes, he doesn’t remember — when he was struck by the similarities between high school ...

Reality shapes the movies, and the movies reshape reality, which makes its way back into film. In the 1950s, for instance, widespread dismay, sensational media coverage and even congressional hearings ...

Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies may itself seem like yet another exercise in 80’s nostalgia, and author Bruce Handy indulges his probable Generation X readership ...

Those of us who grew up in the 1980s are apt to associate the teen movie with other hallmarks of that decade’s culture, such as big hair, the Walkman, or “Trump: The Game.” Yet a new book demonstrates ...

Bruce Handy’s history of teen movies ranges from Andy Hardy and James Dean to “Beach Blanket Bingo,” John Hughes, John Singleton and Katniss Everdeen. By Lisa Schwarzbaum Lisa Schwarzbaum is a former ...

Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, in which a fresh-faced McConaughey appears as Wooderson, the guy who graduated years back but still hangs with the high-school kids, is that kind of teen movie: ...