- The image on the right is an example of a postmodern subcultural form
- The items that the girl is wearing is an Edwardian style or Victorian adopted by the girl
- Cyber punk look
- A mixture of a variety of subcultures going on
- Film uses a mix of original footage from the skaters themselves
- Tells the story of a group of teenage surfer skaters
- Deals with a section of the film where the boys were skating in an empty swimming pool
- In this early subculture in the 1970's in terms of dress there was not much difference between the way the boys and girls dress
- Contemporary urban street skating
- More political than the urban skate culture
- Examines idea that skaters are redefining or resisting the aspect of urban planning the way that cities are laid out which directs you in a certain way
- Encourages bodies to move through the space in a certain manner
- Walking, traffic, skaters
- Skaters redefine this journey using a hand rail which is something that is a safety mechanism that they use as a prop
- The reason that cities are planned in this way is for commercial purposes mainly about consumption
- Redeveloped and made in to shops and galleries etc
- A move resisted strongly by skaters over the years
- There is a kind of petition that is resulting in a delay for the planning application
- An area that wasn't specifically designed for skating but has been adopted by these groups
- Henry Edwards-Wood quote
- Spokesman of the Long Live Southbank campaign
- Skating is a substitute for the family
- A family is created in a subculture
- Both activities are a form of using the city
Film clips
Jump London
Black graffiti
- Subculture allows you to transcend racial divisions
- Girls subcultures
- Girls are traditionally invisible because of the subculture
- Stereotype motorbike girl
- Sits in a sexually suggestive position on the bike
- Fantasy
- Not a reflection of the real world
- Often women in that subculture exaggerate
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