![]() ![]() ![]() – The teen films hooked on classic literature – How Clueless transformed the movie makeover What emerged was a new breed of subversive teen "misfits" of a kind that hadn't been seen before, and hasn’t been matched since. In US indie cinema, a new wave of young, frustrated and aimless youths was populating the screen, who refused to be salvaged or redeemed by the society operating in apparent prosperity around them. Yet on the cinema screen, something radically off-message was happening. The economy was up, and unemployment was way, way down. The poverty rate had fallen from a high of 15.1% in 1993 to 11.3% in 2000 ( the record low was 11.1% in 1973). By the close of the 1990s, household income had grown by 15% from the previous decade. ![]() To look at America face on around the turn of the millennium was to see a nation brimming with prosperity and promise. ![]()
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