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Three rockers on Chelsea Bridge Two mods on a scooter. Mods and rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of the late 1950s to mid 1960s. Media coverage of the two groups fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youth, and they became widely perceived as violent, unruly troublemakers.
Mods and Rockers is a 1964 British short film directed by Kenneth Hume and produced by Anglo-Amalgamated. [1] It features the Western Theatre Ballet company based on their ballets "Mods and Rockers" and "Non-Stop". They also perform a dance to Beatles compositions.
The Alley has become a shrine to the Mod movement, [1] and people come from all over the world to find this alleyway. [2] The cult film was set in Brighton in 1964, the period of the Mods and Rockers. In May 1964, masses of Mods and Rockers descended from London onto Brighton Beach, resulting in a mass fight that shocked the nation.
Disc 2 features an hour-long documentary and a featurette with Roddam discussing the locations. [21] Unlike their previous DVD, it was the complete, longer version, and it was matted to the correct aspect ratio. [citation needed] The Criterion Collection released a special edition version of this movie on 28 August 2012, on both DVD and Blu-ray ...
The Mods & Rockers Film Festival was a Los Angeles film festival that celebrated rock culture. It was presented by the non-profit cultural organization American Cinematheque annually from 1999 to 2010, with the exception of 2004.
The movie, premiering this month, is based on real events in the early 1990s, when a group of young people in Cuba were looking for freedom from government repression.
The film’s carefully wrought focus on what comes next was informed by conversations Peterson had with survivors of school shootings and their parents and teachers, and her intention to tell a ...
The mods and rockers conflict led sociologist Stanley Cohen to use the term "moral panic" in his study about the two youth subcultures, [140] which examined media coverage of the mod and rocker riots in the 1960s. [141] By 1965, conflicts between mods and rockers began to subside and mods increasingly gravitated towards pop art and psychedelia.