Tuesday, 17 January 2012

How do contempory media represent British Youth = Youth culture in different ways?

Harry Brown 2009 Directed by Daniel Barber

How does Harry Brown represent young people?

- Pit bulls
- Drugs
- Guns
- Violence
- Hoodies
- Location
- Sexual confrontation
- Gender representation
- Gender stereotype
- Sexism
- Terroirty
- Colliqual language
- Revenge
- Binary oppostion (good vs. bad)
- Age
- Social class

Hoodies strike fear in British Cinema
Guardian 2009

How it suggests young people are represented
- Unnemotional
- Inact of feelings
- Reflect them being monsters
- Challenge equillibrium

The links to horror genre
- Sense of realism
- Non fiction is scarier


- Capitalism
- Hegemony - Ruling of the higher class wanting to make others believe the same
- Asbo's

The implications of the representations

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