Easy A

<p><em>Easy A</em> (2010) is the last significant box-office success in the high-school teen movie subgenre and a film that has already been deemed a ‘classic’ by many cultural commentators and popular film critics. By applying interdisciplinary insight to a relatively overlooked movie in academic discussion <i>Easy A: The End of the High-School Teen Comedy?</i> is the first in-depth volume that places the movie within several key contexts and concepts of intertextuality gender genre and adaptation and social discourse. </p><p></p><p>Through the unpacking of a complex narrative that draws its plot from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s <i>The</i> <i>Scarlet Letter </i>(1850) and shares affinities with John Hughes’ paradigmatic films from the 1980s and key films from the 1990s this volume presents <i>Easy A </i>as a palimpsest for the millennial generation. </p><p></p><p>Clear and comprehensive the book argues that <i>Easy A </i>marks the end of the commercially successful high-school teen comedy and discusses the reasons through a comparative synchronic and semi-diachronic historical comparison of the film with contemporary cinematic texts and those of the 1980s and 1990s. </p><p></p>