Are there any cultural or fashion movements in Britain now that you think will be strong enough to form a collective identity?

The cultural movement that comes to mind is the 'football hooligans'. They wear the shirts of their club to show others that they are supporters of this team and therefore show there collective identity.  An example of this is Manchester. This large city is broken up into two footballing divides, Manchester United and Manchester City. Fans will wear their teams colours around the city to show support for their identity.









Argue ways that you could relate each theorists argument to one of our case study texts


Stryker's Theory 
In Alfie the view of the masses is that sex should only be after marriage. Obviously we know that Alfie does not take this view as his own. He instead chooses to sleep around with women before either of them are married. This shows he goes against the social expectations seen in the film and that were expected in the 1960's.

Althusser Theory
In Fish Tank we see Connor come into the family as a friendly irishman. He then starts to become more of a father figure to the daughters as the film goes on. This gives the audience an impression that he is a good man and the audience like him. In the scene where he takes Mia's tracksuit bottoms off as he puts her into her bed, we start to see that he might not be the person we first thought and the audience start to doubt him. The audience feel this way because of how little he knows Mia when this scene takes place. This recent view of Connor is shown to be correct as the film develops and we see him have sex with 15 year old Mia.

Marcuse Theory
At the beginning of Fish Tank our first impressions of Connor is that he is a friendly irish-man. The passive audience if this film will take their impression of Connor on face value and will think he is a genuine person.  Obviously later on the film we see that this is not the case.