Exam Prompts for Collective Identity

3- What are the social implications of different media representations of groups?

-Fish tank
-Inbetweeners
-An education
-Correnation street (no representation of ethnic groups in the 70s, More of a classic white society and Eastenders sows a more generalized view of the type of people in Britain)

Encourages social groups to act like the movies do, e.g. when the little kid is smoking and drinking in fish tank.
The image Fish tanks shows of Britain is a broken world where teenagers are corrupted by greed and drugs and alcohol, a lack of a father figure could be the causes of the family dysfunction, as well as rebellious children attitude. The incapability from the mother to look after her children is shown by the fact that she is at the pub at every opportunity and that she cares more about her social life then her children.
This films collective identity is a negative view on the modern lower class of british society, the kids run wild and the parents seem to not even care. People Who are not from Britain would stereotype British people in this negative way.

Inbetweeners is based mainly around a middle class public school, the implications of this film are much different to the implications in fish tank, The students are more smartly dressed and have much nicer homes then the flats you see in Fish tank, out this still shows Britain in a bad light because the actors in it are rude, this is also more of a comic view of Britain rather then a serious view that you would find in Inbetweeners and An education.