Eduqas GCSE Film Studies · C670
Component 1, Component 2
Pressure to follow a group's accepted behaviour, beliefs or values rather than express individual differences.
Revise: Social, cultural, historical and political contextsThe replicas' loss of emotion and individuality can be read as a criticism of conformity. The corruption of authorities such as the police can suggest distrust of the pressure and persecution associated with McCarthyism itself. One reading stresses fear of communist infiltration; another stresses the dangers of anti-communist paranoia and enforced sameness.
- Revise: Grease: contexts, genre and narrative
Changing behaviour or appearance to fit the expectations of a group.