How The Media Represents Young People In Britain

News Articles
1. Many of the news articles around will negatively portray young people.
2. Many young people are aware of the stereotypes that the media manifested for them.
Attack the Block, film
1. The film negatively portrays young people.
2. It further perpetuates stereotypes of youth culture to audiences.
3. Racially mixed young males presented in dark clothing and masks and gloves to conceal.
4. Costume and props signify that they could be threatening.
5. Connotations of anti-social, deviant behaviour; they use slang and expletives.
6. The gang are equipped with weapons so they look intimidating.
7. Albert Cohen's theory of Status Frustrations explains why the gangs perform in this way.
8. Those deprived of opportunity to achieve socially accepted goals resort to deviant behaviour.
Quadrophenia, film
The London Riots

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