Back To The Future: The 1980s with Nick Dodds

Ah, the 1980s, the Golden Age of TV, pre-internet, VHS, the Sony Walkman, mixtapes, GOOD MUSIC... I could go on. In our last lecture of the year with Nick, we were taken back to the 1980s where we explored the influence of politics on Britain's culture and how the events of the 1980s have shaped the economy, society, and culture ever since. Throughout the lecture it was made clear that there was a clash between official and unofficial culture, official being commercially conscious and unofficial being inspired by rebellion- especially against the Thatcherite zeitgeist. Increase of rebellion seemed to be mainly in the North, whilst other areas remained mainstream and was subject to American cultural imperialism.

​Below are mood-boards I made, the first being an example of OFFICIAL culture and the second being an example of UNOFFICIAL culture: