The background of the film and how it is presented in the media
The film is designed and based around the representation of youth behavior in the media and how they can be symbolized through some sort of dress code or costume. Clockwork orange was based around the time when there was low employment in the UK and it was even harder for youths to get work because of business's were only taking on older people with experience and the youth culture was just left out in the cold as it were. This developed social gangs which were inspired by violence to get by in life which created a moral panic one of Stan Cohens theory of which is states that the media can create an image for a certain culture or group and manipulate it to make them seem worse than what they are. Then as killings were happening with similarities to the ones in A clockwork orange it developed a negative media image which caused a moral panic of people claiming the film drove people to commit killings similar to those in the film. the film was then banned in the UK but killings have recently taken place again that are similarly staged like the ones from clockwork orange
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