Wider social/political/cultural issues:
- End of rationing
- Emergence of 'youth' as a social group - issue of juvenile delinquency (mods/rockers)
- Growth of television as family entertainment - eroding audience in cinema
- Moral panic about drug taking
- Last capital punishment (Ruth Ellis) in UK (1956)
Key films and issues they raised:- Rock Around the Clock (Sears, 1956) & Rebel Without A Cause (Ray, 1955) fuelled concerns over teenage criminality
- The Wild One (Benedek, 1954) described as 'a spectacle of unbridled hooliganism' - showed biker gangs at time of Mod/Rocker riots - rejected until 1967 when dangers seen to be over
- Devil's Weed rejected (1951) as 'evils of drug taking not made clear'
- Yield To The Night (Thompson, 1956) had themes of death row, coinciding with Ruth Ellis therefore passed as 'X' despite tasteful presentation
- Room at the Top (Clayton, 1958) asked to soften language after accusation of "gross suggestiveness in costuming, dialogue and situations", despite its positive reflection of the upheaval of social/class boundaries in post-war UK
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