Representation of age

Representation of teenage Men- Rebeleous, Rude, Lazy

Teenage Men-

  • Lazy (negative)
  • rebeliouis (negative)
  • rude (megative)

Teenage Women-

  • hormonal,  ( negative)
  • dumb, (Negative)
  • self centered (Problematic)

Elderly Men-

  • Golf, (positive)
  • Racist, (problamatic)
  • Burden (Negative)

Elderly Women –

  • lonely, (Negative)
  • good at baking, (positive)
  • sweet (posotive)

Stereotypes

Children- innocent – Dewy, Maclom in the middle

Teenagers- lazy

20s-30s Having Fun

Middle Aged- Not aware of pop culture

Elderly- Powerless.

Key Terms

Reinforce- Same as the domminant representation

Challenge- Representations that are different from the domminant

Ideology- set of beleifs

Dick Hebdidge

Teenagers-

Trouble

Fun

Micheal Brake– categorises teens into

Respectable

Delinquient

 

Graeme Burton- Srgues that the teen subculture is in oposition to the dommiunant culture ‘Problematisation’ to descrive the problem of youths

 

Diffrent age groups are represented in differeent ways.

A middle age charachter is represented as wanting to be young and back in the  20s-30s sterotype. This is shwon by the Mis En Scene from the actor looking like a middleage man however the costume is soemthing a sterotypical teenager would wear. This makes the audience connote that the charachter is trying to fit in the pop culture of teenagers to fit in the school environment and feel younger by relating with the teenagers

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