Media & Collective Identity

Are there any cultural or fashion movements taking place in Britain now, that you think would be strong enough to form a 'collective identity'?
The first cultural/fashion movement that comes to mind is the emo movement, it seems that wherever you go in Britain your almost certain to see someone who can be described as emo. The characteristics of someone you might describe as emo are as follows: bold haircuts (random colours and sweeping fringes), skinny jeans, dark clothes and into depressing music.

Since emo's are largely influenced by the music industry, the movement as a whole is empowered by the media.

Argue ways that you could relate each theorists argument to one of our case study:
In the film fish-tank all the characters are set in a fairly poor area i.e council estate this is the stereotype of the chav movement. Coincidently everyone in the film behaves the way you'd expect a chav to behave e.g. not very well spoken, disorderly and criminal, it could be argued that because some people in that area think this is acceptable behavior everyone else chooses to join in; this coincides with Stryker's theory.

In the film the women are portrayed as sexual deviants with the main character a 15 year old girl is having sexual encounters with her mothers boyfriend. Women are often portrayed in this way in the film and television of today, however this bares very little resemblance to reality; this fits into Marcuse's theory.

The main character is trying to make a name for herself by becoming a street dancer which coincides with the type of music that the chav movement listens to; this coincides with Althusser's theory.