Supervisors info:
Δήμητρα Λαμπροπούλου, Λέκτορας, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Ευάγγελος Καραμανωλάκης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Μαρία Παπαθανασίου, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Summary:
This study examines the representations of youth entertainment in the Press during 1950s and 1960s. Specifically, I study the way that young people are constructed as subjects by the Press through the interventions of journalists, scientists, academics and politicians of this period. The chronology of the study is based on the fact that during 1950s and 1960s youth dominated the public discussion and emerged as social, political and economic subject both in Greece and in the other countries of the West. The primary sources of the research are the newspapers and the magazines of this period. Specifically, I examine the newspapers, Ta Nea, To Vima, Kathimerini, Mesimvrini, Avgi, Ethnos and the magazines, Eikones and Taxidromos. Τhe study is extended chronologically until the Greek military junta, which occurred on April 21, 1967 and ceased the release of the Press. The study consists of two chapters. In the first chapter, I examine the representations of Greek teddy boys in the Press during 1950s and 1960s, as it constituted a cultural practice of young people, which combined entertainment with delinquency. In the second chapter, I analyze the representations of the youth entertainment, which was characterized by the emergence of the night clubs in Greece. I demonstrate the way that journalists, politicians and academics reacted to the emergence of this youth leisure practice through their articles in the Press and the measures that the Greek state took against this new practice. In the conclusion, I am trying to explain the worries and the moral panics that the Press produced about the young people, which were trying to control the behaviors, the expectations and the future of young people in Greece.
