Youth essay
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 ...