The Greaser Co-Culture
From the first time the movie Grease premiered, an image for the 1950s was created (Kleiser, 1978). Young girls spent days trying to learn how to dress just like Sandy, and even made their own little gang of Pink Ladies with their friends. Even before the premiere of that movie in 1978, in 1967 the novel The Outsiders was written by S.E. Hinton. The story told of a gang of Greasers in rural Tulsa, Oklahoma, just trying to make their way in society. Greasers are what made the culture, the time, the people, so fascinating for the 1950’s and 1960’s. Being in that ‘Greaser’ stereotype, was so rebelliously cool to most American’s, and still is to this day. The revolutionary co-cultural movement of the Greaser stereotype was something that left a significant impact on the way the United States became the United States that it is today. Whenever you think about the 1950’s you think of girls in poodle skirts, jukeboxes, Elvis Presley, and tough guys in leather jackets. Danny Zuko stealing parts to fix up Greased Lighting and Sandy going from Sandra Dee, to a real Pink Lady (Kleiser, 1978). Without that rebellious Greaser stereotype, we wouldn’t know what any of that was, let alone …show more content…
However, without the Greaser co-culture, we would not be the United States that we are today. We need the Danny Zuko, the Ponyboy Curtis, and the Sharks and the Jets to give us that pop culture. As Americans, we have learned from that era of struggling to become who we are. We have that feeling of being a misfit, growing as a person, and coming out on top. That is what the stereotype of the Greaser has taught us. In the words of Johnny Cade, one of the Greasers from The Outsiders, “You still have a lot of time to make yourself be who you want. There’s still lots of good in the world
From the first time the movie Grease premiered, an image for the 1950s was created (Kleiser, 1978). Young girls spent days trying to learn how to dress just like Sandy, and even made their own little gang of Pink Ladies with their friends. Even before the premiere of that movie in 1978, in 1967 the novel The Outsiders was written by S.E. Hinton. The story told of a gang of Greasers in rural Tulsa, Oklahoma, just trying to make their way in society. Greasers are what made the culture, the time, the people, so fascinating for the 1950’s and 1960’s. Being in that ‘Greaser’ stereotype, was so rebelliously cool to most American’s, and still is to this day. The revolutionary co-cultural movement of the Greaser stereotype was something that left a significant impact on the way the United States became the United States that it is today. Whenever you think about the 1950’s you think of girls in poodle skirts, jukeboxes, Elvis Presley, and tough guys in leather jackets. Danny Zuko stealing parts to fix up Greased Lighting and Sandy going from Sandra Dee, to a real Pink Lady (Kleiser, 1978). Without that rebellious Greaser stereotype, we wouldn’t know what any of that was, let alone …show more content…
However, without the Greaser co-culture, we would not be the United States that we are today. We need the Danny Zuko, the Ponyboy Curtis, and the Sharks and the Jets to give us that pop culture. As Americans, we have learned from that era of struggling to become who we are. We have that feeling of being a misfit, growing as a person, and coming out on top. That is what the stereotype of the Greaser has taught us. In the words of Johnny Cade, one of the Greasers from The Outsiders, “You still have a lot of time to make yourself be who you want. There’s still lots of good in the world