Presentations on Youth Culture

There is a contrast of class and culture with the films Kidulthood and Sket. Although the representations of women are less passive they are equally as deviant.

All urban films are very similar, the creators are monopolising the genre. Shank has a sense of tribalism.  Music in relation to whats on the screen can change the mood of the entire piece, comparison between opening title of Inbetweeners and Shank. These films are pushing the boundaries, using new cinematic styles. Unconventional styles of titles, more televisual. Lifts these representations out of standard cinema and makes them feel more real. Representations are given a similitude aspect to them. Outside of the U.K. Kidulhood was sold as 'The Streets of London.' In Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging has a scene where a male is seen as a sexual object rather than the conventional female. Films like Adulthood, Kidulthood are slightly voyeuristic for middle class people. Back in the 50's early 1960's, youth as deviant became a representation which the media was quite keen to pick up and represent, because it felt that somehow there was a split known as the generation gap. The youth were rejecting what the mainstream media and society had to offer them so what they did through the use of music was create there own culture. Therefore, youth became a sub-culture. What we get now is a very different context, we get representations purely created for commercial reasons. Youth Culture gets packaged as a product.