Youth throughout the decades

Youth in the 50's- Rock 'n' Roll - the key shift in American culture:


Theme of identity going through the youth culture:

• Youth in the 60's - Mods
• Youth in the 70's - Punk 
• Anarchism was actually turned into marketing e.g. The Sex Pistols - youth being manipulated.
• Zeitgeist - German for 'a moment in time'
• Youth in the 80's - Skinheads 
• Youth in the 90's - Goths
  
  

Media Theories:

• Moral Panic: A moral panic is the intensity of feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order.
• Copy Cat Theory: The copycat effect refers to the tendency of sensational publicity about violent murders or suicides to result in more of the same through imitation.
  

Youthful films:

• Clockwork orange
• This is Engand
• Trainspotting
• Le Haine
• City of God