
Published online:
24 May 2018
Published in print:
01 December 2015
Online ISBN:
9781474416009
Print ISBN:
9780748689736
Contents
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Hoodies and contemporary British cinema Hoodies and contemporary British cinema
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Hoodies and horror cinema Hoodies and horror cinema
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Towards a hoodie horror cycle Towards a hoodie horror cycle
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Representing hoodies Representing hoodies
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‘Visual shorthand for “Broken Britain”’: Heartless and F ‘Visual shorthand for “Broken Britain”’: Heartless and F
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‘Thoroughly credible’: Eden Lake and Cherry Tree Lane ‘Thoroughly credible’: Eden Lake and Cherry Tree Lane
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Representing ‘Broken Britain’ Representing ‘Broken Britain’
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‘Uncanny landscapes’ ‘Uncanny landscapes’
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The city in Heartless The city in Heartless
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The countryside in Eden Lake The countryside in Eden Lake
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The middle-class household in Cherry Tree Lane The middle-class household in Cherry Tree Lane
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The school in F The school in F
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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Cite
Walker, Johnny, 'Heartless hoodies', Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society (Edinburgh , 2015; online edn, Edinburgh Scholarship Online, 24 May 2018), https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748689736.003.0005, accessed 9 May 2025.
Abstract
The practice of stereotyping is also the focus of Chapter 5, which considers a cycle of films that are designed to elicit fear from media representations of the contemporary working classes. Through analysis of films in the ‘hoodie-horror’ cycle, which typically presented the youth of the white British underclass as feral and monstrous, I analyse the social context from which these films stemmed and examine how they tapped into current anxieties surrounding contemporary fears of British youth (an apparent groundswell in gang culture that culminated in the ‘August Riots’ of 2011).
Keywords:
Film, Film Studies, Horror, Working class stereotype, Hoodie-horror, British Cinema, British Film Production, European Cinema, Gang Culture
Subject
Film
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