{"id":4755,"date":"2020-07-02T17:18:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=4755"},"modified":"2020-07-02T17:18:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:18:59","slug":"what-sorts-of-movies-were-popular-with-teenagers-in-the-1950s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-9-history\/what-sorts-of-movies-were-popular-with-teenagers-in-the-1950s\/","title":{"rendered":"What sorts of movies were popular with teenagers in the 1950s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/rocknroll\/2_Movies.docx\">What sorts of movies were popular with teenagers in the 1950s?<\/a><\/strong> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/v\/088444434\">Introductory Video &#8211; B-Movies (5 movies)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/v\/241414434\">Plenary Video &#8211; JD Movies (8 minutes)<br \/>\n<\/a>The first signs of a distinctive \u201cteenage\u201d identity emerged not with music, but in film. Young people in the 1950s America grew up at a time of economic prosperity. They had more money than ever before, and spent it on clothes, cars and nights out.\u00c2\u00a0The \u201cdrive-in\u201d cinemas were increasingly popular with teenagers, and so the Hollywood movie studios started to produced films directed towards young people for the first time. These cheap films were made on a low budget for teenage drive-in movie theatres. In this lesson students research the plotlines of some of the most hilarious B-Movies, but also learn about three key films which created the image of the &#8220;teenage delinquent&#8221; (i.e. teenage rebel): <em>The Wild One<\/em>(1953), <em>Rebel Without a Cause<\/em> (1955), and <em>Blackboard Jungle<\/em> (1955).<\/p>\n<p>Part of the new unit on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/rocknroll\/\">Teen Culture since WW2<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/bmovies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4752\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/bmovies-1024x410.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/bmovies-1024x410.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/bmovies-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/bmovies-768x308.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/bmovies-600x240.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/bmovies.jpg 1278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What sorts of movies were popular with teenagers in the 1950s? | Introductory Video &#8211; B-Movies (5 movies) | Plenary Video &#8211; JD Movies (8 minutes) The first signs of a distinctive \u201cteenage\u201d identity emerged not with music, but in film. Young people in the 1950s America grew up at a time of economic prosperity&#8230;. <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-9-history\/what-sorts-of-movies-were-popular-with-teenagers-in-the-1950s\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[1315,1317,1020,1316,1318],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-1eH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4756,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions\/4756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}