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Youth essay Over the course of history in Britain, youth culture has changed massively. This can be seen in many positive and negative ways, however when we look at films and media from the 1930's onto the present day we can see how the portrayal of youths has changed. To support my argument on how youths image has changed throughout film history I am going to use the theories of: Dick Hebdige (1988) "youth as fun" and "youth as trouble maker", Bill Osgerby (1998)  “We do not have to search too hard to find negative representations of youth in postwar Britain. Crime, violence and sexual licence have been recurring themes in the media’s treatment of youth culture, the degeneracy of the youth depiction as indicative of a steady disintegration of the UK’s social fabric,” and Stanley Hall's theory (1904)  “Youth must have excitement and if this is not at hand in the form of moral intellectual enthusiasms it is more prone to be sought in sex or drink,” and ...
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The war years:  The 1930's was a time where the youth culture was promoted this was because, the country was at war. This meant that there was lots of propaganda, and promoting youth culture to go to war, and help Britain beat Germany essentially. Not only were young men being promoted to go to war and fight, but also young women to help produce weapons, farming and taking on the everyday roles that men would typically on. Therefore it could be said that this was one of the only times that the youth culture was promoted. Therefore, it could be said that the theories used, do not support the view of youth culture in the war years. 1950's: The 1950's was when there was moral panic about topics such as nuclear war, after the war ended and Hiroshima attacked with a nuclear bomb by America, it meant that there was a political and social storm of whether there was going to be a nuclear war. It could also be said at this point there was points about the contraceptive pill, ...
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