The 2011 film Submarine is a quirky, artsy take on adolesence but still uses established and popular notions of youth (storm and stress, alienation) in its representations.
In Section B it would be good if you could talk about the past, present and potential future of your specific topic. The past and present is fairly simple, so here's few suggestions for the future.
Has the representation of youth change from past to present? If yes, can you extrapolate the developments any further?Or are we still going to have the same representations as we had before e.g. Demonisation, Popular notions of adolesence etc? Do you really think representations of youth will change? (N.B. remember our class' attitude to Year 12s - rowdy, arrogant, thinking that they own the place - are you just going to become typical adults in terms how you treat the younger generation?)The norm, both in the past and currently, is for older creators to construct representations of youth: John Schlesinger was 37 when he directed the Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse was 30 when he wrote the book. Inbetweeners is written by guys in their thirties. Creator of Misfits, Howard Overman, is 36.Skins, however, uses experienced writers and writers of the age group they are trying to depict. Tim Dawson was 19 when BBC 3 'comedy' Coming of Age first screened. So is this the future - younger writers/directors getting involved to create more truthful, relevant representations?Or will truthful, relevant representations be found on the internet where UK youth are already in control (to a degree) of how they are represented through Youtube and Facebook?There's no right or wrong answer - just don't say that in the future kids will be on hoverboards and live under the sea.