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The 1950s was largely socially complacent, moral crusades ran rampant with Church groups reacting to the scandal of the song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", and the advertising industry's role in trying to coral women back into the kitchen. However, while the American public was socially complacent, they were not devoid of intellect as artists commented on various aspects of social complacency: from The Beatles challenging racism, feminist authors and the Beats were challenging the normal path, and teenagers having their voices projected on the big screen from Rebel Without a Cause (which would set the stage for Splendor in the Grass and Westside Story). The 1950s was socially complacent, but inspired by the intellect and art of the decade, the next generation came out of it very willing to open a dialogue.

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TEENAGE REBELLION (BONUS) CIVIL RIGHTS, FORGOTTEN?

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TEENAGE REBELLION (BONUS) CIVIL RIGHTS, FORGOTTEN?

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During the Red scare, communism consumed the nation that had just began giving attention to civil rights. The music industry was the American microcosm that kept the civil rights movement alive during a more complacent and preoccupied time. Elvis and The Beatles opened the civil war between teens and parents, dancing and the sexual nature of the music was in question. Larger than that was the part music played in unifying the next generation. The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences and fans were less than homogeneous.

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Media started to speak for the teenagers who wanted things out in the open, rather than swept under the rug like their parents. This is expressed in Rebel Without a Cause, as James Dean's character yells at his father to "do something." Natalie Woods's character had a family that was expressive of the sought-after American Dream of the 1950s, but she is still restless and expresses repression of female sexuality in that time. George opens the dialogue about mental health. The rebellion of teenage youth culture in the 50s was mainly about rebelling against silence and complacency.

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All the latest Rebel Without a Cause pictures and images from the movie starring James Dean on SkyMovies.com.

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Teenagers in the 1950s were bombarded with educational films and films against communism. They were also at odds with dress codes indicating that boys could not have long , Beatles-esque hair, and girls could not wear pants. At home their parents were skeptical of their rock & roll, they were especially fearful that their teenagers being fans of African American musicians would promote biracial relationships.
https://prezi.com/badxlnejuw_s/teenage-rebellion-in-the-1950s/

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1950s - An Educational Film Which Attempts To Teach Students And Teenagers How To Cope With Their Emotions, 1950. Stock Footage Video 3908870 | Shutterstock

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Stock Footage of 1950s - An educational film which attempts to teach students and teenagers how to cope with their emotions, 1950.

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Book about the history of women and feminist call to arms began to be published and circulated.
http://www.feminist.org/research/chronicles/part1a.html

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As a response to the depiction of women in media and advertisements, the feminist movement woke up and protests began.

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Rise of Feminism during the late 1950's and 60's

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Feminism Photo: Sexist ads from the 1950's

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Wallpaper and background photos of Sexist ads from the 1950's for fans of Feminism images. 23227541

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There were various moral crusades to protect the minds of young Americans, one of them being that of neurologist and opposer of segregation, Frederic Werthham. He asserts that "-Batman and Robin were involved romantically, Superman was an anti-American fascist, and most egregiously, the conclusion that crime comics were teaching children how to commit violent and evil acts" He took his plight to court. http://cbldf.org/resources/history-of-comics-censorship/history-of-comics-censorship-part-1/

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Ray Bradbury published Fahrenheit 451 in 1953. There is a strong message of complacency because of consumerism and technology and censorship. Guy's own wife was addicted to television, so much so that she didn't notice that the world was going up in flames. This represents the American mindset of accepting consumerism as a distraction.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/21/fahrenheit-451-reading-the-1950s

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Fahrenheit 451 published by Ray Bradbury in 1953 is arguably one of the greatest dystopian novels ever written. To see why check out some of the most awe-inspiring Fahrenheit 451 quotes from a novel guaranteed to make you think differently.

"Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there."

"It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."

"A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?"

"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"

"With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be."

"There must be something in books, something we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing."

"I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane."

"If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn."

"The books are to remind us what asses and fool we are. They're Caeser's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, "Remember, Caeser, thou art mortal." Most of us can't rush around, talking to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore."

"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."

"The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."

"And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the backyard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us jokes the way he did. He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them the way he did. He was individual. He was an important man. I've never gotten over his death. Often I think what wonderful carvings never came to birth because he died. How many jokes are missing from the world, and how many homing pigeons untouched by his hands? He shaped the world. He did things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on."

"Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore."

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Fahrenheit 451 published by Ray Bradbury in 1953 is arguably one of the greatest dystopian novels ever written. To see why check out some of the most awe-inspiring Fahrenheit 451 quotes from a novel guaranteed to make you think differently. "Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

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Advertising promoted the idea of the "nuclear family" .  This was a wholesome and American concept that was somewhat restricted and very much promoted by television and gender roles (women going to college to find a husband and have children.) Advertising reinforced a gender hierarchy placing women as being subordinates and confined to kitchens.
http://www.ultraswank.net/kitsch/american-dream-1940s-1950s/