How do British films such as ‘Adulthood’ and ‘Shanked’ construct ideological messages about gang culture? Why might this be so?
British films have for a number of years been depicting gang members in a negative way. There are very few examples of gang members being helpful, loving and caring. They are repeatedly being represented as being anti- social, inhumane and violent across many different media platforms. For example in film they do this by giving them roles which force them to play to their stenotype and I feel they haven’t given actors the freedom to challenge these stereotypes resulting in a misrepresentation of this minority group in society. If members of a gang are seen to be together camera angles used by the institutions constructing these ideologies will show them to be intimating with the use of props such as knives and guns there body language will also be constructed so they will be shown to be angry and carless even through there facial expressions.
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