I. Dress, Attitude,

Delinquency

William Morgan’s The Violent Years, Sidney J. Furie’s The Boys, Joseph Tovares’s Zoot Suit Riots and Mike Hodges’s Get Carter.

Get Carter

Thursday 15 May, 18:30 | ICA Cinema | Duration: 112'

Bleak, violent and stylish. As cold as the Tyne & Wear backdrop, Carter wealds his thuggish craving for revenge to murderous proportions. Armed with a double-barreled shotgun and a killer wardrobe designed by Vangie Harrison, Michael Caine gives a career defining performance.

With an introduction by Alistair O'Neill, Senior Lecturer in Fashion, and writer.

Zoot Suit Riots

Monday 26 May, 20:00 | The Horse Hospital | Duration: 53'

Tovares’s captivating documentary, part of the “American Experience” series on PBS, explores zoot suit culture through LA's infamous “Sleepy Lagoon” murder (1942). The killing of a boy at a party triggered a ruthless police manhunt and the subsequent show trial resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of a group of young Mexican American "zoot suiters" that many—including high-profile figures such as Orson Welles—thought to be innocent.

So What! Two Tales of Juvenile Delinquency

Saturday 31 May, 18:20 | The Horse Hospital | Duration: 179'

The media of the 1950s and early 1960s were obsessed with “rock’n’roll & out of control” juvenile delinquents. American and British filmmakers responded to this debate by producing a number of low budget teenage exploitation movies, most containing a strong moral message.  

Guest-curated by Roger K. Burton, costume designer and former mod.

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