Honors Sophomore Elaina Cole, a computer science major with minors in film studies and mathematics
Ferris Bueller took the day off. The Breakfast Club found friendship in detention. The Outsiders didn’t play by the rules. The Heathers lost their cool. Karate Kid stood up to his rivals. The Teen Wolf became a hero.
The teens of the 1980s films did what they wanted. They didn’t conform or follow. They embraced what made them different and they ran with it. They were their own characters – their own people.
And Elaina Cole, for one, is determined to give them the credit they deserve.
“I wanted to legitimize the 1980s teen film as a genre – to show that it matters,” says the Honors College sophomore, who – tasked with researching any specific film genre for her Studies in American Film course last fall – ended up taking on a genre that wasn’t even recognized as a genre. “When I chose to write about teen films of the 1980s, I had no idea how difficult it’d be! The lack of academic research did make it a little more difficult, but, honestly, it just made me more determined to show that this is a genre that’s just as legit as screwball comedies or anything else out there.”
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