Compare And Contrast Blackboard Jungle And Rebel Without A Cause

After watching that the film transitions to teenagers drinking water and taking a break. They look like poop, have not had a full night of rest in weeks, book bags full of textbooks, and still have more on their minds to get that A in AP Chemistry or that AP English class that the other students complain about. While teens are walking home and they show students working on homework the music is like a piano. Its beautiful but, it's also resembling the stress of the student’s mind and how they feel there is no time to finish that essay or to study for that one exam that will go on your report card at the end of the

The 1950’s brought about the beginning of teen culture. The phrase, “teenager”, had only recently been invented but the word was already developing more weight and meaning. To be a teen encompassed the soul of rebellion. The formative years were a warp in the usual fast pace of life, a pause between childhood and adulthood. That pause was uncomfortable and foreign. It gave kids a chance to think and feel before being thrust into The Real World. That small break was enough for the seed of self-expression to slip through, and music is the ultimate form of self-expression. The birth of rock and roll, the constant threat of the cold war, the inescapable prison of segregation, and the chance to stop

As a result cultural industries saw fit to move in and make profit from this reality by offering a form of escapism through music. Music mainly Rhythm and Blues was expressing the experiences of young teenagers. Teenagers no longer upheld the values and message that their parents and schools were promoting. This created conflict between the cultural industries who were promoting the pleasures of consumption with the traditional view of educational demands. This was seen to be the background formation and experience for rock n roll. It was due to the experiences of teenagers that Rock n roll formed. Rock n roll is due to Presley etc.

I will be investigating how youth is represented in the films A clockwork orange (1972) and If…. (1968) and how the films affected the views of the time and how the films influenced youths.

It has not been too long ago that I still remember my adolescent years. I always remember the unintelligent things I did that I wish could change, but this Psychology class made me realize that all adolescents go through the same things I experienced. Adolescents are known to try to find their identity, go through peer pressure, make mistakes, and try new things. The move I picked that closely represented what adolescents go through was “Mean Girls”. Some of the scenes in the movie seem a little exaggerated, but it has happened in certain high schools even though I had not experienced it personally.

Although the two decades were different in themselves, there is still a parallel running between the two. Both were times of change, with popular culture culminated for the newly recognised youth, each decade had their own brand of pop music, and their own brand of teenagers.

Teens are rebellious troublemakers. It’s just something that’s in their blood. Each one shows it in a different way. There are many movies that show teens coming of age and going through this phase. “Rebel Without A Cause”,“American Graffiti”,  “Breaking Away”, and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” all show how teens are growing up.

The music of the “swinging 60s”especially influenced the lives of many teenagers, with the rock ’n’ roll craze of the 50s still

MGM brought Hollywood into the Rock 'n' Roll era with Blackboard Jungle. In search of the kind of music teens like the film's

Music, editing, and camera angles are used by Chazelle to explore the effects of a volatile and manipulative student-teacher relationship. The cinematography and music used throughout the scene intensify the volatile relationship

Dazed and Confused is a film that follows a plethora of characters on the last day of school before summer vacation. Although lacking in tangible plot, it makes a bold attempt to encompass and present the zeitgeist of the 1970s. In my opinion it is as if Dazed and Confused was produced in hopes of making those viewers who lived through the 1970s feel a sense of nostalgia. The film’s trajectory, harnessing of zeitgeist, and soundtrack are all very similar to George Lucas’s American Graffiti—a film that also successfully rooted in nostalgia. Dazed and Confused was released in 1993 and, like American Graffiti, was able to look over its shoulder to determine what music stood the test of time. The film attempts to epitomize what it meant for

Another reason youth enjoy "Grease" is it deals with events and issues encountered in high school. In fact, the whole movie revolves around the typical high school experience. For instance, the movie opens with the excitement of the first day of school and Rizzo of the Pink Ladies says that seniors rule the school. Isn't that the

acting of the cast than the 1971 film. The imagery is more appealing to the younger

The cinematography of this film features numerous close-ups of its adolescent protagonists as well as point-of-view shots acquired predominantly from their perspective, thus making the viewers position themselves firmly on the boys’ side of

For me, what’s interesting about School of Rock is not its relationship to countless other fish-out-of-water films, or even necessarily its relationship to other rock and roll films. It’s what I call the rock and roll rhetoric, the social assumptions about rock music that those who love it assert as a means of justifying their interest in it. According to Rock and Roll Rhetoric, rock sets you free from conformity, from boredom, even from the everyday, nine-to-five world. Rock and roll, Dewey tells the kids, is about “stickin’