Tearing up the screen: BFI’s Rip It Up season rebels against tired teen stereotypes
Young people have chosen this six-month season, and though rebel classics such as Quadrophenia and If … are here, the picks show youth culture in fluxSeventy-five years ago, the Festival of Britain offered a vision of a modern, forward-looking nation emerging from the austerity of the second world war. It also coincided with the emergence of a new cultural figure in the US: the teenager. For the first time, young people were beginning to be recognised as a distinct social…
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