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G324: Music Video Index

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G324: Digipak + Magazine Advertisement Index

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Stephen Sutton hit the headlines after raising around £3 million for the Teenage Cancer Trust despite being diagnosed with bowel cancer aged 15. The BBC's headline was: "Stephen Sutton makes 'largest' cancer charity donation".

"Teenage" (2014)

"We're teenagers ... a wartime invention. What would we become? Who would decide it - them or us?"
"Adolescence is the new birth"
"We were young and we were allowed to be".
Transition between childhood and adulthood difficult before.
Gangs on streets - carried knife and robbed - "youth were becoming a problem and it had to be solved".
Robert Baden-Powell - Boy Scout Movement

Patriotism, courage and self-alliance
"turned rat face slum kids to kit and healthy soldiers".

After war men shellshocked - "old have sent us to die and we hated them".

"Reckless sense of release and I felt wildness inside"

"I don't trust my parents anymore I just want to be with my friends. The world is speedy and they are old".
FLAPPERS

Jazz, Charleston (Americanised). "Those who get the youth get the future". Youth Groups.
"to be young was the style and it was for sale".
Valentino's death caused riots.

Police tried to shut down nightlife - youth created their own.
Brenda Dean Paul 1926 - London's first drug addict.
Movement created - gossip columnists.
Adults were in a panic
Youth unemployed - lay down strike
Nothing to do, nothing to spend - "living corpse".
Adolf Hitler - opinion leader - young people susceptible to it because they feel at a loss.
Hitler youth - millions joined.
"I can only describe this happiness to be allowed to join a group that spread across the nation".
"A young German was the most exciting thing you could be".
Rosevelt - Civilian Concentration Core
England - Peace Army Camp - Labour Camps that "gave us something worthwhile to do"
Swing - Jitterbugs - USA
Slowly you lost yourself - "into the mass ... if you didn't like to there was no escape"
"Everything I was or had been was absorbed into the hole".
"We wanted to tell all these dumb bastards that we were different that was all" - Tommie Scheel.
Victory Girls
Teen Canteens - "aren't we all part of the community".

Social control, moral code and law.

Edelweiss Pirates - rebelled against Hitler's youth.
"The old had sent us to die and there was no turning back"
Different products aimed at youth: "we are the bosses of the business now".

Sub-Debs

Teen-Age Bill of Rights, 1948

a contract between the generations
right to have "say" in own life
right to have rules explained not imposed
right to have friends
right to question
right to be at romantic age
right to have fair chance and opportunity
right to struggle towards philosophy of own life

"to a teenager it is important to find out where we fit in in life around us"
"The model for youth that still exists today".
"A lot of people try to shape the future ... but it's the young ones who will live in it and will fight for it".

Tuesday 29 April 2014

G324: Music Video Index

G324: Digipak + Magazine Advertisement Index

Evaluation Q4: Final

Positive Youth Representation

"Teenage" (2014)

Saturday 26 April 2014

Evaluation Q2: Final

Friday 25 April 2014

Evaluation Q1: Final