1. Representation in Television A2 Media Critical Perspectives

2. Points to Consider Are there particular fashions associated with young people? Is there a different language associated with young people? Does the way in which young people dress and act on television effect the way that they are viewed by the public?

3. Exam Prompt You need to learn about: Debates around the idea that our identities are increasingly constructed by, our through, or in response to the media (and arguments against this notion) The effects in society of particular kinds of media representation of collective identities

4. What’s on the box?

5. Postcode (CBBC, 2011) Aimed at 10-12 year old boys http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/20/ cbbc-postcode-pre-teen-drama http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/20/ cbbc-postcode-pre-teen-drama

6. Postcode (CBBC, 2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrXy5VAzJ E4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrXy5VAzJ E4 Watch the promo for Postcode How do you feel young people are represented? The BBC said: “The filming started in Stockwell, south London, the day after the August riots erupted. It feels edgy – in one scene the fictional gang members gatecrash a party by climbing over the garden wall.”

7. Waterloo Road (BBC, 2006 – Present)

8. Misfits (Channel 4, 2009 - Present) Watch the opening of Episode 1 of ‘Misfits’ How does the ‘look’ of each character help to establish their stereotype? Do you feel that there are any positive representations of young people here?

9. Misfits (E4, 2009 - Present) Hateful representations of youth is the real villain Aimed at niche audience on E4 (15-35 year olds) May explain why representation is more positive

10. The Inbetweeners (C4, 2008-2010)

11. Fresh Meat (2011 – Present)

12. In the Flesh (BBC 3, 2013-) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00szzcm

13. Theorists Hegemony – Antonio Gramsci Subcultures – Dick Hebdige Cohen – Folk Devils Henry Giroux – Empty Categories Charles Aclund – Ideology of Protection Louis Althusser – ideological state apparatus George Gerbner – ‘mean world syndrome’ cultivation theory http://www.slideshare.net/jphibbert1979/media- and-collective-identity-theory-revision http://www.slideshare.net/jphibbert1979/media- and-collective-identity-theory-revision

14. Theorists (2) http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/nov/05/br itish-hoodie-films http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/nov/05/br itish-hoodie-films Greg Philo – hoodies as Middle Class fear Links to Harry Brown (2009) and Eden Lake (2008) & Attack the Block (2011) Anglela McRobbie – violence as exercise is demonization of youth to exert hegemonic model Interesting piece on moral panic (postmodern moral panics) http://logic.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/~b114299/young/2 000-1/2000_1_Johansson.htm http://logic.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/~b114299/young/2 000-1/2000_1_Johansson.htm

15. Organising Theorists