Last week, we looked at how magazines and websites reflect the values and ideologies of their readers.
They want their readers to feel that they can identify with the magazine.
Other texts are also constructed with a certain ideologies in mind.
Media texts often show representations of young people out of control. This allows the state to have more control of them (e.g. media reports about delinquent youths led to ASBOs). This is something called the ‘ideology of protection’ – the idea that young people need constant surveillance and monitoring. This happens because youth is the time when young people learn about social roles and values, and allows the state to make sure they conform to hegemonic values
Task: 17.1.22014
Write a short piece, 200 words about the Harry Brown (2009) clip.
How is British youth represented in this clip?
Is the young man shown to have behaved in an unnacceptable way?
From who's perspective do we see British youth?
How does this conform to dominant British ideology?
How does this compare to other representations of British youth you have seen.
Could you say that ‘Harry Brown’ is a middle class fantasy in which anti-social youths are hunted down and killed by an elderly man
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