Examining the Past - Teenage, Quadrophenia and This is England

xamining the past

The label “teenager” has been in use since WW2

Many of these are explored in Matt Wolf’s documentary “Teenage” (2014)

Teenage, set in WW2 has the voice from youth, therefore represent themselves as mis-understood. There is mention of how the war forced them to grow up. They portray youth as carefree and with no responsibility as a positive, and that the older generations as judgemental.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=39768

The representation of teenagers by adults – consistent from generation to generation over the centuries (Plato c 400BC, and other sources in the lesson 5 post)

Similarly the representations of teenagers by themselves or by sympathetic adults (“Quadrophenia” (1979), “This is England” (2006))

Media arc – Dan Gardner – author of “Risk: the science and politics of fear” (2009) – only certain representations will be made by the media depending on what fits with their existing narratives about that group / event... (Explain how his point might relate to representations of British youth)

Generation conflict has always been evident, as suggested by Dan Gardner