Editing Ferris Bueller's Day Off (section)

==Academic analysis==
Many scholars have discussed at length the film's depiction of academia and youth culture. For Martin Morse Wooster, the film "portrayed teachers as humorless buffoons whose only function was to prevent teenagers from having a good time."<ref>Martin Morse Wooster, ''Angry classrooms, vacant minds: what's happened to our high schools?'' (Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1993), 75.</ref>
Regarding not specifically teachers, but rather a type of adult characterization in general, Art Silverblatt asserts that the "adults in ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' are irrelevant and impotent. Ferris's nemesis, the school disciplinarian, Mr. Rooney, is obsessed with 'getting Bueller.' His obsession emerges from envy. Strangely, Ferris serves as Rooney's role model, as he clearly possesses the imagination and power that Rooney lacks. ... By capturing and disempowering Ferris, Rooney hopes to ... reduce Ferris's influence over other students, which would reestablish adults, that is, Rooney, as traditional authority figures."<ref name="books.google.com">Art Silverblatt, ''Genre Studies in Mass Media: A Handbook'' (M.E. Sharpe, 2007), [https://books.google.com/books?id=R7ixUTC8EpwC&pg=PA105 105] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103212823/https://books.google.com/books?id=R7ixUTC8EpwC&pg=PA105 |date=November 3, 2020 }}</ref>

Nevertheless, Silverblatt concludes that "Rooney is essentially a comedic figure, whose bumbling attempts to discipline Ferris are a primary source of humor in the film."<ref name="books.google.com" /> Thomas Patrick Doherty writes that "the adult villains in teenpics such as ... ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' (1986) are overdrawn caricatures, no real threat; they're played for laughs."<ref>Thomas Patrick Doherty, ''Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s'' (Temple University Press, 2002) [https://books.google.com/books?id=mVfrfDACts4C&pg=PA196 196] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022406/https://books.google.com/books?id=mVfrfDACts4C&pg=PA196 |date=May 4, 2021 }}</ref> Yet Silverblatt also remarks that casting "the principal as a comic figure questions the competence of adults to provide young people with effective direction—indeed, the value of adulthood itself."<ref name="books.google.com" />

Adults are not the stars or main characters of the film, and Roz Kaveney notes that what "''Ferris Bueller'' brings to the teen genre, ultimately, is a sense of how it is possible to be cool and popular without being rich or a sports hero. Unlike the heroes of ''[[Weird Science (film)|Weird Science]]'', Ferris is computer savvy without being a nerd or a geek—it is a skill he has taken the trouble to learn."<ref>Roz Kaveney, ''Teen dreams: reading teen film from Heathers to Veronica Mars'' (I.B.Tauris, 2006) [https://books.google.com/books?id=xdByJyQ5zfIC&pg=PA44#PPA44,M1 44] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022405/https://books.google.com/books?id=xdByJyQ5zfIC&pg=PA44#PPA44,M1 |date=May 4, 2021 }}</ref> In 2010, English comedian [[Dan Willis (comedian)|Dan Willis]] performed his show "Ferris Bueller's Way Of..." at the [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe|Edinburgh Festival]], delving into the philosophy of the movie and looking for life answers within.<ref>{{cite web |last=Stubbs |first=Jamie |title=Ferris Buellers Way of REVIEW |url=http://www.gigglebeats.co.uk/2010/08/review-dan-willis-ferris-buellers-way-of-espionage-edinburgh/ |website=Giggle Beats |date=August 12, 2010 |access-date=2 January 2017 |archive-date=January 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103165151/http://www.gigglebeats.co.uk/2010/08/review-dan-willis-ferris-buellers-way-of-espionage-edinburgh/ |url-status=live }}</ref>