media and collective identity youth films
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Collective IdentityYouth
Who are you?
Who aren’t you?
Subculture
Fashion:Clothing, hairstyle
Opposition/ resistanceTo dominant culture
Lifestyle/practices
Music, art
counterculture
Dialect/ slang
Place, gender, class, race
Subculture: Mediated identity• Band/ musician• Book/ writer• Magazine• Artist• Fashion: Hair/ Clothes/ Shoes
What subculture are you?
"We will call young any individual, no matter what his age, who does not yet coincide with the function which has been planned for him... The young, who have nothing to lose, are the attack. They are the adventure!”
» Isidore Isou, 1949
• Live Fast Die Young-1958• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=A_Dh50nzrZ0
• The Wild One-1953• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=VUPh7XWoq7Q
1950s – Motorbike
gangs, rebels, Rock n roll,
Beatniks
Beatniks – 50s – 60s
1960s – Hipsters, swingers, revolutionaries
If: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spQwqMWbWK4
1970s –
Punk, mod,
Jubilee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmidfMeK7AE&feature=related
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80s – Hip Hop, Skins
Made in Britain:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uacX9FRD0Nw
Warriors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV4cgs-bPic
Y2k+
1 DAY Trailerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMWgBHaV-5c
Comparing representations• Similarities and differences:
• Binary oppositions• The Gaze / perspective• Function of film• Ideology and consciousness• Representation and authenticity
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
Decade Films Movement Event Media
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Quadrophenia
Made in Britain
Bullet Boy
Jubilee
If...
My Beautiful Laundrette
The Wild One
Punk
Hippy
Rave
Hip Hop
Mod
Beatnik
Skinhead
Antiwar demonstrations and student strikes in US and Europe
National Front clashes with local youth in Bradford, London, Bimingham
Thatchers Poll Tax causes riots
Criminal Justice Act outlaws rave music
Anticapitalist movement: WTO riot in Seattle
Samizdat and Fanzines
Bootleg tapes (DJ mixtapes)
Poetry and literature (Burroughs, Ginsberg)
Web2 (eg My Space)
MTV and the music video
White labels
Debate• Police response to 1DAY film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcXddOr4W4s
• Director of 1DAY defends the film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uQEmSblumY
This house believes that 1DAY should be banned
• Divide into 2 groups: » Proposition and Opposition
• Every member of the group will have to speak for 3 minutes.
» First a member of the proposition, then opposition, then back to proposition and so on...
• We will then have a floor debate of 5 minutes» Where each team can question the other
• Finally 1 speaker will summate from each side
Representation• Function of film:
• Cultural document / commercial product/ artistic representation
• Binary oppositions: self/other• Class/ race/ gender / age/ disability
• Authenticity / Invisibility• Political implications
• Ideology• False consciousness• Gaze