Transcript Slide 1 - year12mediabpc

EVENTS OF THE TIME
An emerging social value of the early
1980s in midwest America was a return
to conservative traditional religious
values. This manifests itself in the form
of bans on popular activity in some
states of the USA during the 60s and
70s such as dancing and rock music
that were thought to corrupt the morals
of young people. Footloose is based on
the events of The use of media to push
conservative religion is widespread in
the USA
The rise of religion in the Media
• By the early 1980s the Bakkers had built
Heritage USA (in Fort Mill, south of Charlotte),
then the third most successful theme park in the
US, and a satellite system to distribute their
network twenty-four hours a day across the
country. Annual contributions requested from
viewers were estimated to exceed one million
dollars a week, with proceeds to go to
expanding the theme park and mission of PTL
• -wikipedia
Book Banning
Books considered to have a corrupting
influence on young people were banned
from some schools and taken out of
libraries in America’s southern states,
eg: “Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
and the 1970s popular youth diary on
the drug culture of that time: “Go Ask
Alice” by Anonymous. ref-Wikipedia
• Even in the 1990s teachers have been
sacked in the USA for teaching novels
that are considered ‘dangerous’ for young
Americans.
• The early 1980s society in America is
characterised by the rise of conservatism
in politics due to Reagan. Later in the mid
80s capitalism and the rise of the yuppie,
“greed is good” culture will take hold.