Representation of the Working Class Within Media

Representation of Regional Idendity

Bristol (Skins)


Bristol is known for its parties, craziness, fun, rebellism, danger, drama, drugs, messiness, joblessness, hardcore lifestyle, vandalism, underage sex, music and diverse range of ethnicity. This representation is mostly negative but holds positive and fun denotations.
The main settings in Skins include teenager's houses and their house parties. The characters dialogue is mostly centred around sex, drugs and aggression, with some informal and slurred speech. This coincides with the characters class, which is working and lower class. These classes are known for their use of slang and casual language.
This is a stereotypical representation of Bristol, with dominant ideaology.
In the second clip, the 'posh' character is represented as being intelligent and the characters with thicker, more Bristol-esque accents tended to be more unintelligent and reckless.
The characters' clothing is casual, yet doesn't include tracksuits, which means that they are represented as being smarter than the average 'chav' but are not upper class.
These stereotypes are well represented in the TV drama Skins, which is shown in the clips below:

Representation of Masculinity within Media

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