Compile research about the concept of youth
subcultures:
1.
How are youth
subcultures defined?
2.
When and why
do they emerge?
3.
What are the
defining features of youth cultures?
4.
How are they
perceived by society and by mass media?
5.
What impact
might things like ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation have on the emergence of
youth cultures?
Find out about the “skinhead” culture:
1.
When, where
and in which social, political and economic contexts did it start?
2.
Did they have
a distinctive style?
3.
Why did young
people associate themselves with this youth culture?
4.
How did they
define themselves?
5.
What was the
role of young men and young women in the emergence of this subculture?
6.
Did this
youth culture change over the years?
7.
How were they
perceived by society and by mass media?
8.
What images
do you associate with the word “skinhead”?
9.
Does this
subculture still exist?
“Blackout”
and “This is England” are described as “semiautobiographical”. Do some research
to find out about the film director’s background and discuss how this information
can be related to the film?
During the film.
1.
What is the
function of the iconography used in the title sequence of the film? How might
it help you understand the film?
2.
Who is the
story narrated by? What impact does the narrative voice have on you? Why?
3.
How is Shaun
represented at the very beginning of the film? How does his representation
contribute to your understanding of him as the protagonist of the film?
4.
What do you
think about the depiction of the skinhead gang? What are their defining
features? Does the director glamorize the gang? Does he demonize it? Give your
reasons.
5.
What is the
function of Milky in the story? What does his name suggest?
6.
What does the
gang mean to Shaun? What does Shaun mean to the gang?
Homework.
1.
What is your
view of how masculinity is defined in the film?
2.
Discuss the
theme of loss-of-innocence/coming-of-age in the film.
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