Articles on the London Riots 2011- Tabloid Paper

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3787061/600-riot-yobs-left-DNA-on-windows.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3797021/Feral-underclass-to-blame-for-riots.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3795997/Teen-in-court-over-riot-attack.html



All of these articles have in common that they are all giving youths a negative outlook. This ties in with Stanley Cohens idea of moral panics as the public will be reading the Newspapers and will start to believe what the newspapers say. So therefore this creates society to be scared of youths.

Rockers representation in Quadphrenia

Examples of Mise En Scence which reinforce youth culture-->Quadpherina

Quadrophenia, portraying the clash of two rival youth cults - the mods and the rockers - and set against the backdrop of riots in 60s Brighton and a soundrack courtesy of The Who. The film shows how, at that moment in time, teenagers felt the need to belong and identify with their peers. One way of doing so was through fashion.
Mod fashion started in the 60s, young men and women started to look to French and Italian cool, combined with American Ivy League styling, creating a new and unique fashion for British youth. These 'Modernists' listened to Modern Jazz and rejected any other prevailing trends.

Mod fashion was very much influenced by pop art. Many of the iconic images of The Who are of Pete and the gang wearing shirts with simple abstract logos of dots and arrows, or the Union Jack. The idea of this is that outside its normal use, even a street sign can be art. The patriotism of British youth in the 60's is shown in the adaptation of the Union Jack and British Air Force symbols as motifs. Also popular were air force medallions and patches covering the front of a military shirt or jumper.

Hairstyles were also strait out of Warhol's Factory. The hairstyles were generally short and in a dishevelled fashion with fringes either swept to the sides or cut strait across the forehead.. Scooter boy fashion had a tremendous affect on mod fashion. This can be seen in tight-fitting shirts and trousers with simple stripes and numbers adorning them. Of course it also helps to have the most important Italian designed accessory - a motor scooter (lambretta)

Girls donned homemade shift dresses and ankle socks or coloured tights and straight skirts with short, boxy jackets, herringbone and pinstripe no less. The trousers were usually borrowed from boys and nylon macs and 3/4 length suede and leather coats were all the rage. Girls cut their hair to chin length and wore it super straight in a middle parting with deep, thick fringes. The look was accessorised with small earrings and BEA flight bags, the make-up was light and the eyes black and heavy, false eyelashes were pasted on and lower-lid lashes painted. A coating of white lipstick was also bravely adorned. This is of course, only a general overview, every individual had their own spin on the look yet still managed to unite and create a sub culture amongst their peers.

so how can this be linked to today?

The more recent "Indie scene" can be perceived as an adaption of the Mod culture, drawing certain aspects and turning them into fads which people from across all cultures have been indulging in. An example of this can be seen from edgy catwalk model Agynes Deyn and musician Pete Doherty. The sentiment and belief may not be the same but it is safe to say that the kids of the 60s and 70s have had a great influence on our generation.
One thing that is clear from watching Quadrophenia is that these people did not just wear these clothes and adapt their style because they seen it in the latest magazine or on their favourite celeb, it was their generations way of life, a social status and identity. A fair reflection of a retro Britain but now fashion is merely a disposable image?

Quadphenia 1979- how chracters represented?

How are the Characters represented?
Jimmy
* He wanted to be part of a gang, identity was very important for him
* wanted to be different, but in realitly he was just the same as any other MOD, he thought he was being alternative but really he was just doing the same things.
* Took the concept of being a mod too seriously, wanted to get out of his dead end job & his life
*Identity compromised when his friend beaten up ( as his freind is a rocker) he doesnt want other mods to find out and be disliked by his group.
*Sterotyped scences at home dad, and work. Being rebellious like teens are sterotyped to be.
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Got to be part gang havent you got mind own

when really jimmy was just following the crowd the same
* `There is a divide between Youth & adults
* Divide between middle class & working class- Jimmy being stuck toilets at work
* reinforces representation of youth & Binary oppisites in film

Steph
* Sexual Freedom-pill was introudced in the 1960's, so she could be more premiscious
* shes more femine compared to other Mods andrognous
* no loyalty

Ideologies
* sub culture ideology
* Living for here & now
* Dominant Ideology--> being in a gang
* Them & us mods vs rockers,binary oppisities e.g. todays society Goths VS Chavs

Key idea
Mob mentality
Racism--> igronance
Finding your idenity
when they are in brighton they do not care about actions or the law

Clockwork Orange 1971

A Clockwork Orange is a 1962 dystopian novella by Anthony Burgess.

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name.
It features disturbing, violent images, facilitating its social commentary on psychiatry, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian, future Britain.

The problems really started when the press reported a spate of supposed copy-cat crimes.
The first and most famous of these was the case involving a 16 year old boy called James Palmer who had beaten to death a tramp in Oxfordshire.
Edward Laxton reported in the Daily Mirror, "The terrifying violence of the film A Clockwork Orange fascinated a quiet boy from a Grammar School...And it turned him into a brutal murderer". Laxton continues, "The boy viciously battered to death a harmless old tramp as he acted out in real life a scene straight from the movie A Clockwork Orange.



Most working-class youths referred to themselves as "Suedeheads" due to their closely cropped hair styles. "Ben Sherman" shirts, "Levis Sta-press" trousers, 6 hole polished "Dr.Martin" boots and braces were the essential cladder of the day.
Alex and his droogs were just as particular about what they wore, "the thin braces, the white strides, the rakish use of hats, the combat boots as combined fashion accessory and blunt instrument.

A Clockwork Orange began to be developed into an euphemism in the press for referring to teenage crime and societal deviance.

This is still relevant today as you can see from the following headlines…

Headline from December 2005

also again even sooner to to date april 2010

Stanley Cohen 1972

He based his theory on media reporting of conflicts between 2 teenage tribes of 1960s. Mods and rockers but his thinking can be applied to any subculture labelled as deviant.

what is a moral panic?

A moral panic is the intensity of feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order
"The process underscores the importance of the mass media in providing, maintaining and 'policing' the available frameworks and definitions of deviance, which structure both public awareness of, and attitudes towards, social problems."

Those deviant groups were labelled by Stanley Cohen in 1972 as folk devils.( deviance) He based his theory on the media reporting of conflicts between two teenage tribes of the 1960s, the Mods and Rockers, but his thinking can be applied to any subculture labelled as deviant or dangerous by the media.
Cohen's study was primarily about the Mods and Rockers of the 1960's and the treatment they received in the public eye. The main criticism was that they were seen as a threat to law and order largely through the way the mass media represented them, in the form of what Cohen calls the 'control culture'.
Largely this refers to the media sensationalising an event and then calling for a punishment to be set to persecute the offenders.

Quadphenia 1979- end scence

Jimmy realises, that b

Presentation of self (goffman 1990)

Exam

The exam is in 2 hours in length
15th june 2012

Section A : theorrtical evaluation of production (50 marks)

Section B: comtempary media issues (50 marks)

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