APPLYING THEORIES

The radio report sets the context of the film. It positions the audience with the
middle class as the hegemonic representation of kids is that they are delinquent
youths, therefore applying Gramscis theory.

A brief explanation about how

this evidence PROVES/FITS
Gramscis theory.

The radio report sets the context of the film. It

positions the audience with the middle class as
the hegemonic representation of kids is that they This was an issue in
are delinquent youths, therefore conforming to the mock.
Gramscis theory that hegemony is achieved REMEMBER: Name
dropping a theorist
as the middle class beliefs become the is not enough.
dominant ideology and the lower classes are
perceived as thugs.
 APPLYING THEORIES
The radio report sets the context of the film. It positions the audience with the
middle class as the hegemonic representation of kids is that they are delinquent
youths, therefore applying Gramscis theory.

A brief explanation about how

this evidence PROVES/FITS
Gramscis theory.

The radio report sets the context of the film. It positions the audience with the
middle class as the hegemonic representation of kids is that they are delinquent
youths, therefore conforming to Gramscis theory that hegemony is
achieved as the middle class beliefs become the dominant ideology and the
lower classes are perceived as thugs.
 HOW DOES THE MEDIA REPRESENT ONE GROUP YOU HAVE
STUDIED?

EDEN LAKE

YOUTH AS HORROR
MONSTERS
Representation violence
far more extreme in this
new genre of hoody
cinema

ROBIN WOOD: Normality threatened by the

monster

E:
The violence perpetrated by the youths becomes more extreme throughout the narrative. At
first the gang partakes in low level anti social behaviour like slashing Steves tyre, but this
escalates to slasher genre style torture and brutality, exemplified when the gang tie Steve to
a tree stump, systematically torture him and then attempt to set him on fire.

A/R/L:
This conforms to Robin Woods theory that youth are now represented as modern day horror
monsters due to the brutality of the violence shown and the fact normality is
represented as Steve and Jenny and it is them that is threatened by the monster.