Other Protest Movements: The Counter Culture

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Key themes

• The invention of the teenager
• The rediscovery of sex
• Television
• Students for a Democratic Society
• Berkley Free Speech Movement
• Rejection of materialism – n.b. advertising
• Music
• Drugs
• Hippies
• Vietnam
• Women’s Movement
• Nixon and the Conservative Backlash

The Emergence of the Teenager

Trailer for ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ (1955)

From ‘The angels’ (1966) – the Wild Angels actor is Peter Fonda

Music

Students for a Democratic Society

Vietnam

Hippies

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