1990s

In the 1990s, the youth culture had three main categories, grunge, pop, and lad, and fashion culture. The group that follow the grunge theme mainly wore baggy jeans, t shirts and checked shirts. Following the pop culture which mainly consisted of girls following spice girls, which would mainly dress in skirts.

BBC Article 1995 “ecstacy pill puts party girl in coma”

NY times 1994 “Kurt cobain, hesitant poet of ‘grunge rock’ at 27”

BBC article “Violence flares in poll tax demonstration”

Danny boyle train spotting

The film trainspotting (danny boyle, 1996) follows the newpaper articles of that time, as this film contains a lot of raving, violence, and drug taking which a variety of my newspaper quotes that I found had some aspects in which link to this film.

Trainspotting represented young people as being party animals, who take drugs to take there mind off things, this links to Stanley halls theory of “ adolescence is a time of storm and stress when all young people go through some degree of behavioral upheaval” it aslo ties in with osgerby and hedbridges theory of “youth is portrayed in two ways, either fun or trouble” because most people will either see the characters in this film as causing a lot of trouble, or people will see that they’re having a good time.

The juxtaposition in this film in terms of music and images both had an enormously big contrast as when there would ever be any grim or sad scenes there would never be any sad music it would always play happy upbeat music, which didn’t make you feel bad or sorry for the characters on screen. However if they had played appropriate music people could of taken the film more seriously, and had a different effect on people.