Women are represented in an explicit way e.g being objectified - those in Blurred Lines and Chandelier have nude coloured clothing on. In Chandelier, the 11 year old dancer has a nude tutu, whilst the women in Blurred Lines are wearing nude knickers, with their breasts exposed.
The women in Blurred Lines have been used in this music video in order to allow the music video to be viewed by millions of people. The amount of views a video on YouTube gets if it is American, decides whereabouts in the charts the song is ranked in; the more YouTube views, the higher it is in the charts.
We are no longer in a spectatorial society (where you just watch), but rather a participatorial one where the audience can participate in the making of media products (parodies) - Henry Jenkins.
The content in media products goes through the process of selection or rejection, where specific content for the video is selected in order for it to be the most attractive in targeting a large amount of audience. All media in this world has been mediated.
The 'male gaze' of Laura Mulvey suggests that the camera positions the audience in the position of a male heterosexual, so that they can visualise women how men see them.
This is England
Historical
Has real life clips montaged at the beginning, linking with the fiction footage that follows
Woody's skin head gang isn't stereotypical, they're more friendly and welcoming
2 groups of skinheads - woody's group interested in boots and hair style
Combo's group - the guy was 32, messing around with a 12 year old boy is weird, don't know what Smeg was doing with a 12 year old boy at 16. Blame the problems in the country on immigrants. Several of them left woody's group to go into Combo's group; sense of belonging. They wanted to understand the problems that the country was having - mention of currency, world affairs. Combo wasn't wrong when talking about the Forklands - invented war in terms of Maggie Thatcher - a group of Irelands off the Argentinia coast - not shown any interest whatsoever in them - until Phillips company discovered oil and the Argentinia group said they want them back. Thatched used that to her advantage and used it to unify her country when talking about the armed forces.
Young groups shown as being very naive when it comes to politics and global economy. Cannot be coincidence that it was combo who had the far right view and combo turning out to be the emotion immature one; his meeting with lol in the car - he had slept at 29 with a drunk 16 year old which isn't good , then when he went away and made a box for her and thought it was the best night of his life, he then couldn't handle that rejection shows how emotionally inferior he was; first sign that something wasn't quite right with combo. Goes downhill onwards, wants the weed from Milky, then they go back and Milky was talking about family and what he had and how good it was and how he thought he had a good dad even though his dad was working and never there - you could see that something was not quite right. He asked "What makes a bad dad?" makes the audience guess what dad Combo had wasn't such a good dad after all. Then losing the plot turning into some sort of psychopath and inflicting terrible injuries on him and turning on his own people - last bit at the end "leave those two alone they did nothing too you" - Combo was talking to himself; emphasises him being schizophrenia.
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