You can have the style without the subculture
Postmodern sampling of subculture
Performance of the city
Film and photography
Documentry - Stacey P
Update doc footage of skateboard film from California
History of the culture
1970s murdy passtime sport
" To a sponsored sportogtown
and Z-Boys is a
2001 documentary film
directed by Stacy Peralta.
Using a mix of film the Zephyr skateboard
team shot
in the 1970s by Craig Stecyk and
more recent interviews, the documentary tells the story of a group of
California teenage surfer/skateboarders and their influence on the history of
skateboarding (and to a lesser extent surfing)
culture. The film is narrated by Sean Penn.
Financed
by Vans as Peralta had a deal with them.
A
history of the emergence skate culture in the
1970’s- from nerdy kids passtime to subcultural sport. "
Original subcultures to contempary
Style is more practical then gendered - long sleeves protective
No differentiation between male and females - long hair etc.
Urban street skating as political statement
something to do other than passively walk around the city scape
being in the city that is resisting the direction of the city it self
designed to walk through space in certain way - lead us to commercial space
skateboarding is a way of resisting and changing the urban space - redefinition of it
substitute family - aspect of the movie
replace the conventions with new way of life
social interaction important - fractured family
Free running is a similar activity with the city
Parkour - Sporty element to it
free running is more arty - freedom of movement and pose
Subculture of the sport - story creates a group of superheroes in the Paris Ghetto
Steal from the rich for the poor
Political element to it
Documentary instead of fantasy directed by mike chritsy
navigate buildings that are landmarks
challenge to architecture
"a
documentary
first broadcast by Channel 4
about parkour and free running in
September 2003, directed by Mike
Christie
and produced by Optomen Television. It
later spawned a sequel, Jump Britain that
first aired in January 2005. Both feature documentaries were directed by Mike
Christie.
Jump London followed three French traceurs, Sébastien Foucan, Jérôme Ben Aoues, and
Johann
Vigroux, as
they run around many of London's
most famous landmarks, including Royal Albert Hall, Shakespeare's Globe Theater, HMS Belfast, and
many others."
redefinition of space - claiming ownership of public space
tagging/graffiti
claiming public back to individual
night activity - adds to the subculture nature
Your
graffiti speaks for you, you are not bound by your identity,
‘a freak can be a king.: you could be four
foot tall with four eyes, buck teeth and a lump but if you rocked lines and
produced fresh cars, you were king. “Prime” Graphotism, Magazine 3
The
reverse of which is seen in the film ‘This is England’
identity of visual appearance 
unless you are a female writer
graffiti by females - tend to be judge of physicality - more difficult to escape from unlike to rich/poor/race stereotype
putting femininity in peoples faces
female graffiti artists who are completely different and don't focus on the body
politically motivated
works in urban regeneration - projects
people claiming back space where it has been devastated by and event or just run down
most people who write about subculture are male
post theory addresses that issue a bit
over femininity - people read into it negativity - issues and sexual overtone
60s/70s
suggest powerful sexual deviant motorbike female
not true to the femininity of the time - girls are more of an add on then ride the bikes - sit on the back
not really part of subculture
separates from other subcultures like mod
extreme masculine and feminine
neat and tidy - unthreating unlike biker subculture
fits better in to culture of parents - younger people fit into the normal routine of home and school
girls can have a status in the culture without being attached to a boy
working class had jobs which meant they had money to socialise
meant could have group identity
tensions between mods and rockers - bank holiday weekend culture
drive off cliff - end of his experience of the culture
status within subculture results in factions who separate from original culture - mod to the skinhead and different factions in the skinheads
original and then those who try follow the trend
hippy girl - middle class
type of experience comes out university
space for leisure - find yourself
more likely to access to the space through education and travel
time for personal expression before you settle down
good - flower power
bad- rock and roll - own destruction
underground punk in washington
type of feminism possibly
essentially its a music scene but the issues by the bands were things such as rape, sexuality etc
less about the music but more about the protest
anti authoritarian
attitude and assertion of the female figure in the music industry
pioneers of the alternative scene
Jen smith - referring to the race riots
political reactive situations - fanzines based around the issues they are reacting to
reproduces the punk DIY aesthetics
be truly subcultural most be political in some way
important in the real world - give women a voice in the industry
women used to be sidelined - they were quite revolutionary
turns in to the grunge scene
style without the politicalise
distorted even further
visual types
easy consumption
girl power- little empowerment in real life
cartoon characteristics - reduces political message
its noise not the music but the message
distortion of the punk movement in the media
elements of the culture are turn into commodity form
modes of dressed turned into mass produced clothing
original elements become part of the design
attempts to be neutralised by the media
punks and there mothers - really makes the punk subculture non threating represented unfairly
press set up to neutralise it that was threating the domestic
objects associated to the subculture
transformed from practical object to piercing with it or clothes
diamond broach shown
becomes subzoomed into fashion - show no cat walks
london riots - hoody becomes symbol of demonised part of culture
starts as protected clothing against weather
now part of group and unidentifiable in group
developments of different modes of dress
meaning of the clothing as the context is changed
long frock clock - upper class to mass production and then being appropriated by the working class
girls in the subculture - girls were small part of teddy boy culture
if the girls are on the street then they might get into trouble eg. pregnant
skinhead culture - suggests it comes the subculture and deviants from it
skinheads with there mum
right as passage from journey of being young teen to young man
skin style and the politics
film is effective in defining the difference
ends with the scene of attack on milky
violence is triggered from inviting him around
can't get his head around of himself and someone else
unifying effects of subculture - outside race
working class conflict - influenced by immigration
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