Collective IdentityYouth

Who are you?

Who aren’t you?

Subculture

Fashion:Clothing, hairstyle

Opposition/ resistanceTo dominant culture

Lifestyle/practices

Music, art

counterculture

Dialect/ slang

Place, gender, class, race

Subculture: Mediated identity• Band/ musician• Book/ writer• Magazine• Artist• Fashion: Hair/ Clothes/ Shoes

What subculture are you?

"We will call young any individual, no matter what his age, who does not yet coincide with the function which has been planned for him... The young, who have nothing to lose, are the attack. They are the adventure!”

» Isidore Isou, 1949

• Live Fast Die Young-1958• http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=A_Dh50nzrZ0

• The Wild One-1953• http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=VUPh7XWoq7Q

1950s – Motorbike

gangs, rebels, Rock n roll,

Beatniks

Beatniks – 50s – 60s

1960s – Hipsters, swingers, revolutionaries

If: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spQwqMWbWK4

1970s –

Punk, mod,

Jubilee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmidfMeK7AE&feature=related

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80s – Hip Hop, Skins

Made in Britain:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uacX9FRD0Nw

Warriors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV4cgs-bPic

Y2k+

1 DAY Trailerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMWgBHaV-5c

Comparing representations• Similarities and differences:

• Binary oppositions• The Gaze / perspective• Function of film• Ideology and consciousness• Representation and authenticity

1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

2000

Decade Films Movement Event Media

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

Quadrophenia

Made in Britain

Bullet Boy

Jubilee

If...

My Beautiful Laundrette

The Wild One

Punk

Hippy

Rave

Hip Hop

Mod

Beatnik

Skinhead

Antiwar demonstrations and student strikes in US and Europe

National Front clashes with local youth in Bradford, London, Bimingham

Thatchers Poll Tax causes riots

Criminal Justice Act outlaws rave music

Anticapitalist movement: WTO riot in Seattle

Samizdat and Fanzines

Bootleg tapes (DJ mixtapes)

Poetry and literature (Burroughs, Ginsberg)

Web2 (eg My Space)

MTV and the music video

White labels

Debate• Police response to 1DAY film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcXddOr4W4s

• Director of 1DAY defends the film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uQEmSblumY

This house believes that 1DAY should be banned

• Divide into 2 groups: » Proposition and Opposition

• Every member of the group will have to speak for 3 minutes.

» First a member of the proposition, then opposition, then back to proposition and so on...

• We will then have a floor debate of 5 minutes» Where each team can question the other

• Finally 1 speaker will summate from each side

Representation• Function of film:

• Cultural document / commercial product/ artistic representation

• Binary oppositions: self/other• Class/ race/ gender / age/ disability

• Authenticity / Invisibility• Political implications

• Ideology• False consciousness• Gaze