Contemporary british cinema and the representation of youth - slideshare

Hoodies strike fear in British cinema

• it's no surprise that hoodies are increasingly populating British horrors and thrillers, generating a presence so malevolent and chilling that there are often hints of the supernatural or the subhuman about their form.
• Johnny Kevorkian, the 33-year-old director of last year's The Disappeared, an atmospheric supernatural thriller about a young boy who vanishes on an estate populated by prowling hoodies, agrees. "Although it's a ghost story, much of the fear in The Disappeared is real," says Kevorkian. "These threatening nasty gangs run these estates. The film is exploiting the fact that things like gangs killing little kids really happens. So of course, in the film, you wonder if these guys are the cause of the boy going missing, and that is really scary."

Robin Wood - 'normality is threatened by the monster. I use ''normality'' here... to mean simply ''conformity to the dominant social norms''

• The film initially represents the young people as 'monsters' then replaces them with actual monsters