2. London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division. Only when he's together with his friends, a 'Mod' clique, cruises London on his motor-scooter and hears music such as that of 'The Who' and 'The High Numbers', he feels free and accepted. However, it's a flight into an illusionary world.
3. Tommy, Trainspotting and Brighton Rock.
4. Media coverage of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youths, and the two groups became labelled as folk devils.
Newspapers described the mod and rocker clashes as being of "disastrous proportions". Newspaper such as a Birmingham Post editorial in May 1964, which warned that mods and rockers were "internal enemies" in the UK who would "bring about disintegration of a nation's character". The magazine Police Review argued that the mods and rockers' purported lack of respect for law and order could cause violence to "surge and flame like a forest fire".
Eventually, when the media ran out of real fights to report, they would publish deceptive headlines, such as using a subheading "Violence", even when the article reported that there was no violence at all. Newspaper writers also began to associate mods and rockers with various social issues, such as teen pregnancy, contraceptives, amphetamines, and violence.
Tv show 'Please sir!' challenges this view - 'Weekly situation comedy about a hapless but caring teacher and his class of unruly kids. The teacher sees much good and potential in his pupils much to the dismay of his fellow teachers who have lost hope in these kids'.
5. Representations in the film of:
Young males - Are leaders of the pack and are shown as quite dominant as everything revolves around them. They are shown in a very negative way as they are violent and deviant.
Young females - Are flirtatious and promiscuous and sexually active. Shown more as a sex symbol rather than meaningful characters. Also challenges stereotype of male superiority as it is the male with feelings and the female cheating instead.
Older characters - Such as the parents, are shown to be controlling as the main characters mum kicks him out after finding out he was involved in the riot and finds his stash of pills. The other older characters such as his work colleagues also seem to undermine and look down at him.
Figures of authority - Such as the police, are seen as powerful in numbers yet not respected. They are shown to fight back during the riots and do end up capturing many rioters. In court the judge is represented as powerful as he can punish whomever he wants and decides how. They are almost represented as the heroes as they try to stop and control the violence,
Ethnicity - Mostly white males as it is 1979 Britain before it became multi-cultural. Only one black male is shown and he is portrayed as a drug dealer which conforms to the negative stereotype.
