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Kirby, D. A., & Gaither, L. A. (2005). Genetic https://www.jstor.org/stable/ The article spoke on the topic of genetic modification in
Coming of Age: Genomics, Enhancement, and 20057892? film and how it can cause the characters to struggle to
Identity in Film. New Literary History, 36(2), 263– searchText=what+makes+a+coming+ find their identities. Coming of age film revolves around
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Nelson, E. H. (2017). The New Old Face of a https://www.jstor.org/stable/ The teen film industry has gone through many different
Genre: The Franchise Teen Film as Industry 44867863? phases and keeps changing. The 1950s to early 2000s
Strategy. Cinema Journal, 57(1), 125–133. searchText=how+do+you+create+a+fil saw many teen movies about teens in everyday
http://www.jstor.org/stable/44867863 m+for+teenagers&searchUri= situations, something a teenage could relate to. The
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Nand, L. (2022). Film text analysis—the coming- https://www.scirp.org/journal/ Making a coming of age film is more than the plot, the
of-age genre, Baz Luhrmann’s production paperinformation.aspx? technical work plays as much of a role as anything else.
of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and paperid=117754 Heightening emotions in the film by creating certain
Juliet” (1996) alias Romeo Juliet and Kate moods in lighting and the closeness of the shots to the
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Wood’s “Looking for alibrandi” (2000). characters matter. When making a coming of age film it is
OALib, 09(06), 1–14. important to bring the audience into the characters
https://doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1108695 thoughts as it is a showcase of their entrance into
maturity.

Schmidt, M. P. (2002). Coming of age in https://www.proquest.com/openview/ The coming of age genre typically revolves around the
American cinema: Modern youth films as abe1fa5efb90b569f29cea8677182b80 ideas of relations a teen would have and their own
genre. University of Massachusetts /1?pq- personal journey. The teens that are usually shown in
Amherst ProQuest Dissertations origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y coming of age films are from the middle class and that
Publishing. can relate to the most teens. These films are mainly
melodramas of a somewhat normal teenage life, with
expectations for supernatural or horror subgenres in
coming of age.

Christie, I. (2012). What Do We Really Know https://www.jstor.org/stable/ Making a memorable film that attracts audiences needs
About Film Audiences? In I. Christie (Ed.), j.ctt46mww7.20? to be visually appealing for the audiences. A film could
Audiences (pp. 225–234). Amsterdam University searchText=what+defines+the+film+g have great story but may lack the visual appeal of it all
Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46mww7.20 enre+of+coming+of+age&searchUri= making it less interesting to watch. With a melodrama
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SHARY, T. (2003). Course File for “Film Genres https://www.jstor.org/stable/ Film made for youth can be represented in nearly every
and the Image of Youth.” Journal of Film and 20688403?searchText=&searchUri= type of genre from horror to romance. The main idea of
Video, 55(1), 39–57. %2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch all films that are targeted toward youths is to represent
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%2Bthe%2Bfilm%2Bgenre%2Bof the youth may experience or fantasize about. Coming of
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