Media, Information and Technoculture 3200F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Filmi, Edward Snowden, Kanesatake, Quebec
2 Oct 2014
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Badlands: violent actions contrasted with peaceful nature, open spaces, geography becomes important factor to what is driving the kids, can be read as charlie"s quest for conformity rather than as a counter cultural rebel, desire to return to some ideal lost time of manners, respect, honesty, hopeful spaces are temporary and transitory at best; leads back to normalization. Hell"s angels: certain insignia as identifiers, reports on hell"s angels are heavily biased, members began to believe their own press clippings, they are a logical product of the culture that now claims to be shocked at their existent, one incident inspired the wild one starring marlon brando. Tattoos as criminal signifiers: reflect a culture inscribed in flesh, placement of tattoo entails a statement and a meaning, individual rebellion, constitute a metaphor for difference, segregation, and something set apart from the whole, advertise power and standing; indication of membership.
