How do contemporary media represent nations, regions, social, collective groups?

Each of the contemporary medias represent a similar ideology for Britain, age, class, gender and family

All of the contemporay medias we have analysed show Britain to have a social norm of a broken home to some extent. This is shown in both TV shows and Films. Inbetweeners agrees with this statment as Will's family is broken as his parents are not together, another example from Inbetweeners is Neil as they make constant joke to his father's sexuality and you never see his mother. This comes across to the audience as if the social ecxpectation is for a family to not stay together. This accents Stryer's theoery on identity negotiation and social expectations as if all contemporary medias show the same representation of broken families then it will reinforce the identity of broken families.

Fish Tank also represents the identity of broken homes as the main character Mia, has no father, her mother seems to have many previous boyfriends, she lives in an unstable household with her sister and mother with no apparent income. This lack of income combined with the environment Mia lives in shows that her family is being represented as lower class. Mia is misbehaved and does whatever she wants to do, for example she just wanders out of her house and give money to somebody to get her alcohol. This is relatable to Althusser's theory as the lower class are represented in a particular way which has become stereotypical and expected from an outsiders perspective. 

In Alfie the audience accepts that women feel that they have to cook and clean while the men go out and work etc, Marcusse's theory back this up as we have been told enough times that women had less rights back in the 60's so we readily accept this when we watch it (collective groups - gender). An example scene of this point is when Gilda is cleaning Alfie's house without any thanks from Alfie. It is accepted that her role is in the house whilst Alfie goes out to work.