- uses a mixture of original photography and up to date documentary photography
- explores the skate culture of the 1970's
- interesting reuse of spaces
- looking at the development from original skate subcultures into the contemporary subcultures
- clothing chosen for practical use
- no differentiation in style between male and female members of the subcultural group
- females were not excluded
- looking at urban street skating as a political statement
- giving the body something to do other than just exploring the urban city scape
- redefining the use of the urban spaces
- idea of skate culture as a substitute family
- performance of the city
Films exploring the idea of using the city space as a performance space:
- claiming ownership of a space in the city - claiming the public back to the individual
- subcultural activity
- separating graffiti from your physical appearance
- a way of putting femininity in people's faces
- her body doesn't feature in the graffiti - very politically motivated instead
- works in urban regeneration - uses graffiti as a way of people claiming back space - run down areas
- the people who write about subcultures are mostly male
- a possible type of third wave feminism
- issues to do with empowerment
- less about the music and more about the protest
- punk ethic - anti authoritarian approach and attitude
- assertion of female figure in the music industry
- pioneers of alternative scene which developed alongside the more well known punk bands:
- riot grrrls are involved in politically reactive protests etc
- punk style fanzines - exploring issues that are important to and affect females more than males
- historical influence from the Dadaists
- gives the subculture a history and a voice within the music industry
- at the time, what these women in the music industry were doing was quite revolutionary
- idea of girl power empowerment offers nothing in real life
- reduces any understanding of what power might be to just purely a comment on style
- not talking about the music itself but rather the message within it
- distortion and demonisation of the punk movement in the media
- projection of all of societies ills onto the punk subculture
- modes from the subculture turned into mass produced objects - commodified
- style overtaking the subculture
- making the punk subculture non threatening
- showing they have been represented unfairly before
- press set up to neutralise and challenge the establishments such as the family by offering an alternative of a youth culture family
- punks transforming objects in a rebellious statement
- retransformation of the object
- subculture is quickly consumed by the commercial world
- example of demonisation of objects in modern Britain
- hoodies changing from a functional garment to having an association with lawlessness
- typical of a sampling of different historical styles of dress
- meaning of clothing changes as its context is changed
- suit jacket starting as a very upper class item then moving through to eventually being a working class item
- girls were a very small part of the Teddy Boy culture
- development of skinhead culture
- coming from the mod culture
- reflective of the period
- part of the transformation is taking on the style of the group
- been alienated from the traditional family group
- journey from being a child to being a young man
- media representation was a demonisation - that all of societies problems had come from the skinhead subculture
