The document discusses youth subcultures and representations of them in film over different decades from the 1950s to 2000s. It provides examples of films that depicted movements and events from each era, such as The Wild One for 1950s motorcycle gangs and rebels, Quadrophenia for 1960s mods, and 1DAY for 2000s rave culture. The document also prompts a debate about whether the film 1DAY, which portrayed contemporary British youth, should be banned or not.

1. Collective Identity Youth

2. Who are you? Who aren’t you? Subculture Fashion: Clothing, hairstyle Opposition/ resistance To dominant culture Lifestyle/ practices Music, art counterculture Dialect/ slang Place, gender, class, race

3. Subculture: Mediated identity Band/ musician Book/ writer Magazine Artist Fashion: Hair/ Clothes/ Shoes What subculture are you?

4. "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

5. Live Fast Die Young-1958 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Dh50nzrZ0 The Wild One-1953 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUPh7XWoq7Q

6. 1950s – Motorbike gangs, rebels, Rock n roll, Beatniks

7. Beatniks – 50s – 60s

8. 1960s – Hipsters, swingers, revolutionaries If: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spQwqMWbWK4

9. 1970s –Punk, mod, Jubilee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmidfMeK7AE&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7rOcTA3KXs&feature=fvst http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_f2x_CMLds

10. 80s – Hip Hop, Skins Made in Britain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uacX9FRD0Nw Warriors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV4cgs-bPic

11. Y2k+ 1 DAY Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMWgBHaV-5c

12. Comparing representations Similarities and differences: Binary oppositions The Gaze / perspective Function of film Ideology and consciousness Representation and authenticity

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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