"Positive way to beat gangs"
Daily Express 12th February 2012
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/301552
The language used in the headline of the article illustrates a new power give to authority, but written in a way to make the public come to the conclusion that it is a good thing through the use of the first word "positive". The word "beat" also implies that society is finally fighting back against, when if you read on this new power to beat them down in a positive way is through asking them to move from certain areas.
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The language used in this article is mainly against youth culture forming gangs with their peers and wanting authority to take control over youth culture through not being allowing to go to certain areas. The writer of this article is for this "injunction" through the way they have wrote this article.
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Newspaper Articles
'Why did evil thugs kick and blind me?
Daily Mirror, February 8 2012In the headline of this article sensationalist language is to used to describe the attackers as evil thugs. Although the public may not know these attackers this instantly makes them believe these people are evil, this being a moral panic. In the article the sub headline reads the attackers are called 'a suspected racist gang'. There is no evidence to support that this gang were racist but makes the public to believe that they are. We are also told that in the gang there we around seven or eight people,in their late teens and early 20's. And are told that there was only Daniel and his friend Kavan both aged 17 who were together when they were attacked. This would be shown as a good opportunity for the attackers as they had a greater advantage.
The image to support this article is an image of Daniel, aged 17 sat with his mother. In this image you can see his bruised face and that his eyes are closed and swollen.This shows the amount of damage that was caused in the attack and shows how serious it really was.
Newspaper Headlines
Daily Express Sunday 11th February 2012
'Teenager obsessed with Coronation Street killer battered woman to death'
This article is about a schoolboy who is obsessed with the Coronation Street killer John Stape is facing a life sentence, which he was found guilty of.
Some of the sensationalist words used were 'Teenager obsessed','in a chilling echo','emulate his hero','real life copycat killing','attacked his victim','police also found a montage of violent scenes on his computer' and 'the youth admitted killing'
The image that accompanies this article is of John Stape in Coronation Street holding his victim against a wall.
The language and image suggests that youths are easily lead into doing things like copycat crimes and that they are the more likely to do it. It also suggests that the teenager done it for no other reason than to copy off of John Stape, and it also insinuates that he had no other reason, which may not be true.
This could be related to Stanley Cohens theory of moral panic and deviance amplification, as the press have immediately linked the crime as being a copycat of Coronation Street, similar to how Clockwork Orange is linked to a lot of crimes.
'Teenager obsessed with Coronation Street killer battered woman to death'
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/301347/Teenager-obsessed-with-Coronation-Street-killer-battered-woman-to-death-Teenager-obsessed-with-Coronation-Street-killer-battered-woman-to-death-Teenager-obsessed-with-Coronation-Street-killer-battered-woman-to-death
This article is about a schoolboy who is obsessed with the Coronation Street killer John Stape is facing a life sentence, which he was found guilty of.
Some of the sensationalist words used were 'Teenager obsessed','in a chilling echo','emulate his hero','real life copycat killing','attacked his victim','police also found a montage of violent scenes on his computer' and 'the youth admitted killing'
The image that accompanies this article is of John Stape in Coronation Street holding his victim against a wall.
The language and image suggests that youths are easily lead into doing things like copycat crimes and that they are the more likely to do it. It also suggests that the teenager done it for no other reason than to copy off of John Stape, and it also insinuates that he had no other reason, which may not be true.
This could be related to Stanley Cohens theory of moral panic and deviance amplification, as the press have immediately linked the crime as being a copycat of Coronation Street, similar to how Clockwork Orange is linked to a lot of crimes.
Monday, 27 February 2012
Quadrophenia
Quadrophenia is about a boy named Jimmy who is a mod, he likes a girl named Steph and has a rocker friend called Kevin, the film shows Jimmy and his mod friends taking drugs and going to parties, as well as fighting. Eventually the mods and rockers go to Brighton for a stand off between the two sub-cultures, were Jimmy finally gets with Steph, but then gets arrested when walking past the fighting groups. He goes to court with Ace Face, Jimmys ultimate mod idol, when he erturns home after paying a fine, he finds that his friend has got with Steph after he got arrested, he gets kicked out of his home after his mam finds his drugs, he crashes his scooter and quits his job. He returns to Brighton where everything was fine and made sense to him, and where he thought he fitted in, only to find out that his idol 'Ace Face' is a hotel bell boy, so he then realises that everything he thought he wanted and he was, wasn't real and everything was different to what he thought it was and he wasn't living in reality.
Jimmy wanted to be part of a gang, as group identity was very important to him 'you have to be a somebody because if you're not you're a nobody'. He wanted to be different but he was the same as any other mod - he wanted to be alternative. He took it too seriously and wanted out of his dead end job and his life. Jimmys identity was almost compromised when his friend Kevin was beaten up. He is also stereotyped (scenes at home with his dad and at work)
'Got to be part of a gang, haven't you got a mind of your own'
There is a divide between youth and adults, and between middle class and working class (Jimmy being sick in the toilets at work) Reinforces the representation of youth and the binary oppositions in the film.
Steph had a lot of sexual freedom, and she was quite feminine compared to some of the more androgynous mods, and she had no loyalty. She also cares more about her job than Jimmy and she doesnt take her life too seriously.
Kevin was a rocker who was also friends with Jimmy, he wasn't too bothered about his identity and he left the army because he didnt like being told what to do. He gets beaten up by mods.
Eamples of mise-en-scene that reinforce the idea of youth culture are; Scooters, Parkas, Amphetamines, Pubs, Leather Jackets, Motorbikes, and house parties are common things within the film.
There is a sub cultural ideology within the film, and there is the odeology of living for the here and now. there is a dominant ideology of being in a gang, and the them and us ideology (mods v society) - binary oppositions (my generation - young v old)
Stan Cohens theory can be linked to Quadrophenia because he based his theory on mods and rockers and the media reporting conflicts between them, but this can be applied to any subculture labelled as deviant or dangerous by the media. Cohens study was primarily about the mods and rockers of the 60s and the treatment they recieves in the public eye. The main criticism was that they were seen as a threat to law and order largley through the way the mass media represented them in form of what Cohen calls the 'control culture'
Jimmy wanted to be part of a gang, as group identity was very important to him 'you have to be a somebody because if you're not you're a nobody'. He wanted to be different but he was the same as any other mod - he wanted to be alternative. He took it too seriously and wanted out of his dead end job and his life. Jimmys identity was almost compromised when his friend Kevin was beaten up. He is also stereotyped (scenes at home with his dad and at work)
'Got to be part of a gang, haven't you got a mind of your own'
There is a divide between youth and adults, and between middle class and working class (Jimmy being sick in the toilets at work) Reinforces the representation of youth and the binary oppositions in the film.
Steph had a lot of sexual freedom, and she was quite feminine compared to some of the more androgynous mods, and she had no loyalty. She also cares more about her job than Jimmy and she doesnt take her life too seriously.
Kevin was a rocker who was also friends with Jimmy, he wasn't too bothered about his identity and he left the army because he didnt like being told what to do. He gets beaten up by mods.
Eamples of mise-en-scene that reinforce the idea of youth culture are; Scooters, Parkas, Amphetamines, Pubs, Leather Jackets, Motorbikes, and house parties are common things within the film.
There is a sub cultural ideology within the film, and there is the odeology of living for the here and now. there is a dominant ideology of being in a gang, and the them and us ideology (mods v society) - binary oppositions (my generation - young v old)
Stan Cohens theory can be linked to Quadrophenia because he based his theory on mods and rockers and the media reporting conflicts between them, but this can be applied to any subculture labelled as deviant or dangerous by the media. Cohens study was primarily about the mods and rockers of the 60s and the treatment they recieves in the public eye. The main criticism was that they were seen as a threat to law and order largley through the way the mass media represented them in form of what Cohen calls the 'control culture'
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Clockwork orange is a 1971 film adaption of the 1962 novel of the same name. The film features disturbing, violent images, facilitating its social commentary on psychiatry, youth gangs, and other social, political and economic subjects in a dystopian, future Britain.
The film is based around a boy named Alex, and him and his 'Droogs' go around doing extremely violent things such as rape, beating people up, fighting one of the other many youth gangs and stealing. Eventually Alex's Droogs betray him, and he ends up with a 14 year prison sentence for murder. Two years into the sentence Alex is offered a chance to be a volunteer for the ludovico technique, which he accepts. This technique involves drugging and strapping the subject to a chair, propping his eyelids open and forcing him to watch violent images. Alex is initially pleased with the violent images he sees until the drugs being to make him feel nauseated, his favorite composer Ludwig Van Beethoven is also being played and Alex realises that he will then feel nauseated when he hears this music. After two weeks of the treatment Alex is part of a demonstration to show that he is 'cured', and he is shown to be incapable of committing any crimes or fighting back. The question of the film is that there is no morality without choice, so is it right, or fair to do that to Alex? When Alex is released he fins that the police have took his possessions and his parents have rented out his old room. Alex, now homeless, encounters the man whom he beat up, and raped his wife. This man then attacks him using the beethoven music along with several other friends. Alex is then saved by two policemen who turn out to be two of his former Droogs, who drag him to the countryside to beat him and almost drown him. Alex wakes up to find himself being treated by Mr. Alexander and his manservant, Julian. Mr. Alexander does not remember Alex from the earlier attack but has read about his treatment in the newspapers, and sees Alex as a political weapon to usurp the government. As Mr. Alexander prepares to introduce Alex to fellow colleagues, he hears Alex singing "Singin' in the Rain" in the bath, and the memories of the earlier assault return. With his colleagues' help, Mr. Alexander drugs Alex and places him in a locked upstairs bedroom, playing Beethoven through the floor below. Alex, in excruciating pain, throws himself from the window and is knocked unconscious by the fall.Alex wakes up in a hospital, having dreamt about doctors messing around inside his head. While being given a series of psychological tests, Alex finds that he no longer has an aversion to violence. The Minister of the Interior arrives and apologizes to Alex, letting him know that Mr. Alexander has been "put away", and offers Alex an important government job. As a sign of goodwill, the Minister brings in a stereo system playing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Alex then realizes that instead of an adverse reaction to the music, he sees an image of himself having sex with a woman in front of an approving crowd. He then states, in a sarcastic and menacing voice-over, "I was cured, all right!"
Problems started when the press reported a spate of supposed copy-cat crimes. The first and most famous was the case involving a 16 year old boy beating a tramp to death.
Edward Laxton reported in the Daily Mirror, "The terrifying violence of the film A Clockwork Orange fascinated a quiet boy from a Grammar School...And it turned him into a brutal murderer". Laxton continues, "The boy viciously battered to death a harmless old tramp as he acted out in real life a scene straight from the movie A Clockwork Orange”
A clockwork orange began to be developed into an euphemism in the press for referring to teenage crime and social deviance.
The youth of the day saw A Clockwork Orange in a completely different light. Waht they saw was a representation of a life they had already lived. In working class urban areas the violence and the tribal identity of Alex and his Droogs was a reflection or football hooliganism, gang fighting and loyalty to your friends.
Moral panic was created by the press about the effect the film had on groups of teenagers and encouraging societal deviance and stories were reported in newspapers with headlines such as "'Clockwork Orange' gang found guilty of killing bar manager" and "Girls 'kicked gay man to death in attack like scene from A Clockwork Orange'".
The film is based around a boy named Alex, and him and his 'Droogs' go around doing extremely violent things such as rape, beating people up, fighting one of the other many youth gangs and stealing. Eventually Alex's Droogs betray him, and he ends up with a 14 year prison sentence for murder. Two years into the sentence Alex is offered a chance to be a volunteer for the ludovico technique, which he accepts. This technique involves drugging and strapping the subject to a chair, propping his eyelids open and forcing him to watch violent images. Alex is initially pleased with the violent images he sees until the drugs being to make him feel nauseated, his favorite composer Ludwig Van Beethoven is also being played and Alex realises that he will then feel nauseated when he hears this music. After two weeks of the treatment Alex is part of a demonstration to show that he is 'cured', and he is shown to be incapable of committing any crimes or fighting back. The question of the film is that there is no morality without choice, so is it right, or fair to do that to Alex? When Alex is released he fins that the police have took his possessions and his parents have rented out his old room. Alex, now homeless, encounters the man whom he beat up, and raped his wife. This man then attacks him using the beethoven music along with several other friends. Alex is then saved by two policemen who turn out to be two of his former Droogs, who drag him to the countryside to beat him and almost drown him. Alex wakes up to find himself being treated by Mr. Alexander and his manservant, Julian. Mr. Alexander does not remember Alex from the earlier attack but has read about his treatment in the newspapers, and sees Alex as a political weapon to usurp the government. As Mr. Alexander prepares to introduce Alex to fellow colleagues, he hears Alex singing "Singin' in the Rain" in the bath, and the memories of the earlier assault return. With his colleagues' help, Mr. Alexander drugs Alex and places him in a locked upstairs bedroom, playing Beethoven through the floor below. Alex, in excruciating pain, throws himself from the window and is knocked unconscious by the fall.Alex wakes up in a hospital, having dreamt about doctors messing around inside his head. While being given a series of psychological tests, Alex finds that he no longer has an aversion to violence. The Minister of the Interior arrives and apologizes to Alex, letting him know that Mr. Alexander has been "put away", and offers Alex an important government job. As a sign of goodwill, the Minister brings in a stereo system playing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Alex then realizes that instead of an adverse reaction to the music, he sees an image of himself having sex with a woman in front of an approving crowd. He then states, in a sarcastic and menacing voice-over, "I was cured, all right!"
Problems started when the press reported a spate of supposed copy-cat crimes. The first and most famous was the case involving a 16 year old boy beating a tramp to death.
Edward Laxton reported in the Daily Mirror, "The terrifying violence of the film A Clockwork Orange fascinated a quiet boy from a Grammar School...And it turned him into a brutal murderer". Laxton continues, "The boy viciously battered to death a harmless old tramp as he acted out in real life a scene straight from the movie A Clockwork Orange”
A clockwork orange began to be developed into an euphemism in the press for referring to teenage crime and social deviance.
The youth of the day saw A Clockwork Orange in a completely different light. Waht they saw was a representation of a life they had already lived. In working class urban areas the violence and the tribal identity of Alex and his Droogs was a reflection or football hooliganism, gang fighting and loyalty to your friends.
Moral panic was created by the press about the effect the film had on groups of teenagers and encouraging societal deviance and stories were reported in newspapers with headlines such as "'Clockwork Orange' gang found guilty of killing bar manager" and "Girls 'kicked gay man to death in attack like scene from A Clockwork Orange'".
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Stan Cohens Ideas
Stanley Cohens study was primarily about the Mods and Rockers of the 60's and how they were viewed and treated in the public eye. The main criticism was that they were seen as a threat to law and order largely due to the way mass media represented them, which is what Cohen calls the 'control culture'. Largley this refers to the media sensationalising an event and then calling for a punishment to be set to persecute the offenders.
A moral panic occurs when condition, episode, person or people emerge to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests. 'Moral entrepreneurs' are those who start the moral panic when they feel a threat to prevailing social or cultural values, and people who supposedlu threaten the social order are known as 'folk devils'.
A deviant is someone who goes against social order, and to amplify this the mass media make this out to sound worse than it is, which is deviance amplification.
A moral panic occurs when condition, episode, person or people emerge to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests. 'Moral entrepreneurs' are those who start the moral panic when they feel a threat to prevailing social or cultural values, and people who supposedlu threaten the social order are known as 'folk devils'.
A deviant is someone who goes against social order, and to amplify this the mass media make this out to sound worse than it is, which is deviance amplification.
Monday, 20 February 2012
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