Youth on Screen. David Buckingham
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Youth on Screen: Representing Young People in Film and Television
DAVID BUCKINGHAM
polity
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Description: Cambridge [UK] ; Medford : Polity Books, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A star scholar’s exciting history of young people in film and TV”-- Provided by publisher.
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Subjects: LCSH: Youth in motion pictures. | Youth on television.
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Acknowledgements
Most of the chapters in this book were originally developed as essays in my online project Growing Up Modern: Childhood, Youth and Popular Culture Since 1945. This material has been substantially edited and revised for this volume. Other essays in the series (including several others on youth film, and on youth culture) can be accessed at https://davidbuckingham.net/growing-up-modern/.
I would again like to thank my editors at Polity, Mary Savigar, Ellen MacDonald-Kramer and John B. Thompson, for their continuing encouragement and careful support.
1 Introduction
As I was completing the outline of this book in late 2019, a news story about youth and screens briefly hit the headlines. ‘Police attacked during machete brawl at Birmingham cinema,’ it proclaimed.1 Apparently, a group of Asian youth – possibly queuing to attend a new British film called Blue Story – had been involved in a fight in the foyer of the Star City multiplex at around 5.30 one November afternoon. About 100 people were involved, several police officers were injured, and five young people were arrested. The cinema chain Vue promptly withdrew Blue Story from its theatres across the country, although it eventually relented, and the film went on to enjoy reasonable box-office returns.
Directed by the young Black British director Andrew Onwubolu (also known as Rapman), Blue Story is set in the mean streets of Peckham in South London. It focuses on two young African-Caribbean men and their steadily deepening involvement in drug-related gang violence. The film was Onwubolu’s first feature and was a developed version of a short drama series he first created for YouTube in 2014; his subsequent YouTube hit Shiro’s Story (2018), reportedly shot for just £3,000, had gained around 8 million views for each of its three episodes. While Blue Story was financed by the BBC and eventually picked up by Paramount for global distribution, its origins reflect the changing