Thursday 27 January 2011

Media and collective Identity

1. Is there a particular fashion or music movement at the moment that you think could be labelled a collective identity? If so then you must be able to justify it using some of the theories you have learnt.

we feel that stylistic and musical movements have been more prominent in the past for example, during the mid 1960's there were mods, rockers and hippies who all followed very particular fashion and music movements. these 'movements' do still exist but definitely not on the same scale that they did. we feel that modern day style and musical movements are less obvious and definitely don't have anywhere near the same mass following that they did have. However, having said this, there are still different styles that have emerged in the modern day for example chavs, emos and

2. Discuss the ways in which you could apply at least two of the theories to the film/tv examples  you have seen over the last few weeks. Include detailed reference to key examples from the films/programmes. 

'Ashes to Ashes' represents the theory of Ting Toomey, which is identity negotiation, they represent the police force as very brutish and manly, and most of them don't have their own identity, so to speak of. TBC

No comments:

Post a Comment