Youth culture and Collective identity:

• Fresh, instant gratification, appeal of mess, intensity of experience, DIY identity and the desire to be treated like an adult.
• The representation of hoodies (symbols)
• Stanley Cohen – folk devils and moral panics
• The British cinema industry is too small for the British film industry to successfully produce Hollywood-style blockbusters over a sustained period
• Cemetery junction as the non-contemporary
• A candidate studying British Cinema for ‘The Media and Collective Identity’ should discuss theories of film representation and realism in relation to the history of British cinema, a range of British films from recent years, funding, Government and industry practices, and offer a critically informed point of view on how Britain is represented to itself and to the wider audience at the present time.
• Talcott Parsons argued that as we move from the family and corresponding values to another sphere with differing values, (e.g. the workplace) we would experience an "anomie situation”. (lack of usual social and ethical standards)
• Dick Hebdige describes subcultures as a reaction of subordinated groups that challenge the hegemony of the dominant culture.