“IT’S JUST THE AGE”: as juventudes americanas dos anos 50 em Sementes da Violência (1955) de Richard Brooks e Juventude Transviada (1955) de Nicholas Ray

Abstract

In 1955, Blackboard Jungle (1955), by Richard Brooks, and Rebel Without a Cause (1955), directed by Nicholas Ray were released. Both films feature poor, suburban American youths from the 1950s. In their approach to youth, the works present aspects that sought to reinforce the image of this group, helping to affirm and indicate the clothes they wore, the music they listened to, the food they consumed, their relationship with the adults around them and the way they behaved. Based on the questions posed by the two films mentioned, this paper aims to question how the visualities of this period sought to invent and construct faces for teenagers through certain signs that set parameters from which this era can be understood in a visual dimension of society.