2. What is the dominant representation of British Youth in Harry Brown?
Who are the key characters that illustrate this?
What are the key scenes in the film that show this?
3. Make notes on the camera work, sound and mise en scene used in
drug den sequence of ‘Harry Brown’.
Using these elements how does this scene represent young people?
4. Horror and the Representation of Youth
Film theorist Robin Wood argues that the basic
formula of the horror film is:
“normality is threatened by the monster.”
“I use normality here…to mean simply
conformity to the dominant social norms”.
“The definition of normality in horror films is in
general boringly consistent: the heterosexual
monogamous couple, the family, and the social
institutions (police, church, armed forces) that
protect them”
“The monster is of course much more protean,
changing from period to period as society’s basic
fears clothe themselves in fashionable or
immediately accessible garments”
5. Horror and the Representation of Youth
Thinking of the previous quotes from Robin
Wood and the films and texts you have
studied so far:
What is the significance of the emergence
of a cycle of British films in which the
‘monster’ is young people?
How do they threaten normality?
