Theorist: Giroux (1997) Youth as Empty Category
My Explanation:
The Youth is an 'Empty Category' where the adults create their own impressions of the youth, in relation to current social issues and that is why most impressions are not realistic.
Harry Brown - The youths only have the one impression and i think that one social group fills this impression so the whole youth are judged on this.
Eden Lake - The youths are imagined as people who at first are just there to annoy, but then they become evil
Attack the Block - The youths are given the immediate impression that they are all dangerous.
Theorist: Acland (1995) Ideology of Protection; Deviant Youth and Reproduction of Social Order
My Explanation:
The 'Deviant Youth' are vital to help protect the boundaries of the 'Normal Adult' and the 'Normal Youth' relationship
Harry Brown - The 'Deviant Youth' seems to have taken over the Normal Youth stereotype so that the Deviant Youth now becomes The Normal Youth, the police try to restore this by taking out the most Deviant.
Eden Lake - relates to this as at first the youth look like the 'Normal Youth' but they are really the 'Deviant Youth' it shows how the 'Deviant Youth' can really hide themselves well.
Attack The Block - relates to this as the 'Deviant Youth' group start to develop attributes of the 'Normal Youth' as the film continues which shows how people can change from one group to another.
Theorist: Gramsci (1971) Cultural hegemony
My Explanation:
Where it is normal for one social class to out-power the others.
Harry Brown - The Youth have out-powered the other classes including the police, it takes more than one class of people to combine to take them down
Eden Lake - shows how the youth out-power the middle-class adults and will use it to their advantage
Attack the Block - The Youth run the 'Block' and the only class of people that can out-power them is the police
Theorist: Cohen (1972) Moral Panic
My Explanation:
When one select group of people becomes a threat to the 'Normal Society', and then the media represents a whole category of people in that one way, just because what a select group of people did
Harry Brown - The youth become the threat to the rest of the society, everyone then becomes afraid of every youth they see because of the actions of a group of people.
Eden Lake - The youth become the threat to 'normal Society' as the threaten peoples holidays as after this people would fear about having a holiday in a deserted area.
Attack the Block - The youth threaten the rest of the people on the block, as soon as the police turn up they instantly arrest every youth they see because of the stereotype from the media.
Theorist: McRobbie (2004) Symbolic Violence
My Explanation:
Where violence against the middle class changes characteristics of a certain social class.
Harry Brown - The youth are violent against the middle class and then all youth are instantly thought of as dangerous.
Eden Lake - The youth are violent against the middle class and then anyone who See's a youth from that point on is instantly thought of as dangerous.
Attack The Block - The youth rob the middle class woman and from then on they are seen as people who are just there to ruin the life of anyone not in their social class
Theorist: Gerbner (1986) Cultivation Theory
My Explanation:
Where the media can influence peoples understanding of the world
Harry Brown - where the media have shown that the youth around this area are dangerous and from then anyone who sees youth from this area will be weary of them.
Eden Lake - where the media would show that it is now not safe to go to somewhere where the area is deserted.
Attack The Block - the media would show that the Youth are always the people who are committing the crimes and they are to be avoided
My Explanation:
The Youth is an 'Empty Category' where the adults create their own impressions of the youth, in relation to current social issues and that is why most impressions are not realistic.
Harry Brown - The youths only have the one impression and i think that one social group fills this impression so the whole youth are judged on this.
Eden Lake - The youths are imagined as people who at first are just there to annoy, but then they become evil
Attack the Block - The youths are given the immediate impression that they are all dangerous.
Theorist: Acland (1995) Ideology of Protection; Deviant Youth and Reproduction of Social Order
My Explanation:
The 'Deviant Youth' are vital to help protect the boundaries of the 'Normal Adult' and the 'Normal Youth' relationship
Harry Brown - The 'Deviant Youth' seems to have taken over the Normal Youth stereotype so that the Deviant Youth now becomes The Normal Youth, the police try to restore this by taking out the most Deviant.
Eden Lake - relates to this as at first the youth look like the 'Normal Youth' but they are really the 'Deviant Youth' it shows how the 'Deviant Youth' can really hide themselves well.
Attack The Block - relates to this as the 'Deviant Youth' group start to develop attributes of the 'Normal Youth' as the film continues which shows how people can change from one group to another.
Theorist: Gramsci (1971) Cultural hegemony
My Explanation:
Where it is normal for one social class to out-power the others.
Harry Brown - The Youth have out-powered the other classes including the police, it takes more than one class of people to combine to take them down
Eden Lake - shows how the youth out-power the middle-class adults and will use it to their advantage
Attack the Block - The Youth run the 'Block' and the only class of people that can out-power them is the police
Theorist: Cohen (1972) Moral Panic
My Explanation:
When one select group of people becomes a threat to the 'Normal Society', and then the media represents a whole category of people in that one way, just because what a select group of people did
Harry Brown - The youth become the threat to the rest of the society, everyone then becomes afraid of every youth they see because of the actions of a group of people.
Eden Lake - The youth become the threat to 'normal Society' as the threaten peoples holidays as after this people would fear about having a holiday in a deserted area.
Attack the Block - The youth threaten the rest of the people on the block, as soon as the police turn up they instantly arrest every youth they see because of the stereotype from the media.
Theorist: McRobbie (2004) Symbolic Violence
My Explanation:
Where violence against the middle class changes characteristics of a certain social class.
Harry Brown - The youth are violent against the middle class and then all youth are instantly thought of as dangerous.
Eden Lake - The youth are violent against the middle class and then anyone who See's a youth from that point on is instantly thought of as dangerous.
Attack The Block - The youth rob the middle class woman and from then on they are seen as people who are just there to ruin the life of anyone not in their social class
Theorist: Gerbner (1986) Cultivation Theory
My Explanation:
Where the media can influence peoples understanding of the world
Harry Brown - where the media have shown that the youth around this area are dangerous and from then anyone who sees youth from this area will be weary of them.
Eden Lake - where the media would show that it is now not safe to go to somewhere where the area is deserted.
Attack The Block - the media would show that the Youth are always the people who are committing the crimes and they are to be avoided
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