1970s

• Punk: A subculture, characterise as being part of youth rebellion, part artistic statement. 
• 1976-79: height of punk movement. Majority were working class. 
• Promotion of anarchy, anti-establishment.
• Hedbridge: teenagers are fun and trouble.

Daily Mirror: 2nd December 1976

'Cult Filth'

The Guardian: 10th November 1977

'Punk record is a load of legal trouble' 

'The controversial record cover'

Daily Mail: 2nd February 1979

'Drugs kill punk star Sid Vicious'

'Death-charge Sex Pistol found after party'

Sunday Mirra- January 1978

'Britain's most outrageous band'

'Punk Power'- almost as though it is some sort of uprising. 

Sniffin' Glue- 6th january 1977

'R.I.P'

'Parents warned over glue sniffin'

'And other rock 'n' roll habits'

"Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates."- Malcolm McLaren, Sex Pistols manager.

Scum (1979) 

Originally made in 1976, but the BBC didn't want to show it on TV. Alan Clarke (director) turned it into a film. Released 1980

Characters:

• Carlin (Ray Winston)
• Archer (Mick Ford)
• Davis (Julian Firth)

Refuses to eat meat in order to inconvenience the staff. 

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A Clockwork Orange

Director- Stanley Kubrick

Year of Film- 1971

Characters:

• Alex- Malcolm McDowell
• Pete- Michael Tarn
• Georgie- James Marcus
• Dim- Warren Clarke

Wasn't allowed to be sold in the UK due to a copycat killing. 

'There's no law and order anymore'

Osgerby: "Repersentations of youth tell us little about the realities of life experiences by young people, yet are revealing about dominant social political preoccupation... young people serve as a canvas on which debates about more general patterns of social change are elevated." 

Hedbridge: 

Importance of style to youth sub cultures

Media representations of young people portrayed as;

-"Youth as fun"

-"Youth as trouble"

Youth subcultures reject hegemony through application of style. 

Stanley Hall:

Storm and Stress model:

-"Adolescence is inherently a time of storm and stress when all young people go through some degree of emotional and behavioural upheaval, before establishing a more stable equilibrium at adulthood."

Difficulty of adolescence prevalent in;

-Teenage depression

-Criminal activity would increase between the ages of 12 and 24

-"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 and drink."

Portrayal of Youth in the 70s

In terms of youth portrayal throughout the 'punk' era that we call the 70s, societies attitude has heightened dramatically. Although the era prior to the seventies was still negative concerning opinions on the youth, the media ensured that it had grown even worse, predominantly through films and newspapers. On December 2nd 1976, the Daily Mirror published an article on the cover stating 'TV Fury Over Rock Cult Filth', making use of emotive language such as 'fury' in order to engage older people into consuming the general opinion of the media on youth. The lexis 'Fury' can so easily trigger the emotion itself, and readers will carry on reading whilst their anger builds up into a new point of view. 'Cult Filth' sounds dirty and disgusting, making out as though the youth have formed some sort of grotty cult as an uprising against the government. What reinforces this opinion even more is the scene in 'Scum' where