Theoretical approaches to media representations of youth

Gramsci: Hegemony, the ideological influence of the bourgeoise and the proletariat
Hebdige: i believe media representations of young people portray them as either fun or trouble. Wrote a book about the importance of the style to youth subcultures. youth as fun/ trouble, youth subcultures resist hegemony through style.
Acland: the concept of the ideology of protection, anti-social youth reinforces hegemony.
             The effect of television on viewers, the repetitive nature of television means that over time tv influences how people see the world, cultivation theory.


Ann gould identified 6 ket stereotypes in the media's representation of youth…
- rebellious
-Artificial tribe
-sexual
-Nihilistic
-violent
-self-destructive

Bikers- trouble makers- "scooters"
swearing
slang-uneducated
drugs??
sly meetings
staring at women
smoking.
women- UV lighting- tanning.
"You wanna watch it you know" threating each other.
"Riot police fly" - newspaper article.
Fighting each other by singing over each other
Fight then automatically making up.
Leather jacket.
"what am I black or summin?"
Checking the mirror- self centred
"banged up- as if it was a good thing.
Getting high in a bath room
Partying
camera view- serval people in shot outside the house- showing the shadows of people dancing.
 Anti-stereotype- boy "boyfriend of host" dressed well, well spoken.
Drinking.
Loud music in the party scene- inconsiderate of the neighbours.
Big paintings in the house- suggesting wealth, but the rebellious boys have gate crashed, running the class of the party.
Going to a party looking for women.
damaging the property- smashing glass- the sound tells us this- can't see it though- dark room.
Stealing the bike.
Always taking drugs
ruining the gardens- the flowers- trouble makers, rude

Being a  post boy- serving the adults- younger generation used for their work.
Adults much better spoken
boy throwing up- hung over.
Adults ignoring it- probably happens all the time, regular, its normal, not phased by it.
Coming home late- not telling parents.
Mum "it's not normal"- looking down on him.
"pop by" with out consent.
Camera- in the shed- them out- children are forever outside.
"don't wannna be the same as everyone"
Betting, smoking dark light- rebel, ill gel, they know they are doing wrong, so do it in the dark- so they can't be caught.

In the work office, he isn't as much as a "rude" boy compared to when his friends- still slang- no swearing though

"what we gonna do bout pills then"
Having to be kicked out of the restaurant.
Looking for a fight- kicking his bike- he hadn't done anything.
Being sexist "what one are you boy or girl"
going others pain.
"gonna kill em"- sticking together
There are different groups.
so much energy
Camera- following them ride on their bike.
gangs
Damaging public property
"I don't know I don't have a watch"- being scarastic to parents.

distoring his car.
damaging other peoples property- in the dark.
everything done bad is in dark light- they know they are doing wrong.
breaking and entering

buying love with drugs
cheating on each other- in the dark! lighting is far right. can nearly see them- in an alley.


Media-tv- staring into the tv.
adults- as if it's a different world compared to teenagers. "I could play better than that"
"that racket"
"that'll make you death you know"

Massive crowd of people, but there stand out significantly compared with the adults- adults dressed normally- they in green jackets.
running from police
confronting the police

causing havoc on the beach
camera quickly cutting for scene to scene
each shoot contained many people
lots of fighting

Quadrophenia essay.

After watching the film Quadrophenia, it implies that ageism was present in the time this was produced. Forming a very negative stereotype of teenagers- suggesting they are all very rude, trouble makers and disruptive. As Cohen claims, films such as Quadrophenia are exaggerated and distort the truth because he found through research that there was little evidence which he could find that such clashes between rival groups of motor-cycle scooter gangs actually took place. Supported by Gould who identified 6 stereotypes which the media forms around a teenager, Quadrophenia ticks most of the given stereotypes. Thus suggesting the film Quadrophenia is a media representation of a biased view of teenagers.

The opening of the film presents (alongside the credits) bikers taking up the entire road and getting in the way of everyone else, being disruptive. Automatically the mise-en-scene of the biker gang conveys a troubling view of these adolescents, not to mention the daring atmosphere- not worried about being hit off the bike, they just want the show off in front of each other- already showing the relevance of Gould's stereotype list- especially the rebellious one.. There is already a stereotype forming around these characters and all we have seen in them riding their bikes. As theorist Cohen suggests, this portrayal of teenagers is massively incorrect and biased because there is little evidence to imply teenagers actually behave in this manor. The speech of these adolescents is rather poor suggesting uneducated, slang is very key here, alongside the swearing which is used every other word between teenagers. In the opening part of this film, there is a sneaky sense that they may be doing drugs- acting suspicious down an alley. Not with standing this, female teenagers here are suggested to be male orientated because they are for the view of the male gaze- just as theorist Laura Mulvey claims- women are objects for the male pleasure. Additionally there is a scene of what seems to be a public bathroom, where too male characters are trying to compete on who can see the loudest and who has the better music taste. This petty fight soon stops when they see each other. The form of the irrelevant argument shows how the creator of this film suggests teenagers would be rude to anyone-yet when they know them, they'd stop.

However as shown later on in the film, even though there isn't a lot of dominance shown by the rebellious age group of teenage trouble makers, if they need money- as a job, they will present a more polite behavior, swearing is less common. Suggesting that there is a small hierarchy between ages. However when the main character is with his parents this hierarchy is not present, he is very rude and informal, neglecting the idea which they should respect their elders.