Essays on Pistols

History of Fashion

Dick Hebdige’s article “Subculture: The Unnatural Break” poses the matter of the role of subculture in a conventional society. The article indicates that media is presenting subcultures such as punk, as threatening to the traditional societal conventions, to the generally accepted sense of morality, lifestyle or fashion. The arguments that the author uses vary from references to the members of subculture as different individuals that create semantic disorders to conversion and the erasure of the “other” to social norms. The article depicts how media techniques are used to highlight a subculture as negative to social standards. Hebdige suggests ...

Introduction

People, as social creatures, tend to unite in groups that have something common: they may have a similar system of values, behavior or lifestyle that is different from the dominant culture to which they belong. In social studies, the word “subculture” refers to a part of a public group that differs from predominant society. This paper is aimed at analyzing subculture of punk, the role of media and style in punk youth subculture. From the perspective of cultural studies, a subculture is associated with a group of people that do not contradict against the values of traditional culture but ...

Paul Schrader’s internationally acclaimed film; Taxi Driver produced in the mid-1970s tells the story of an ex-Vietnam War veteran named Travis Bickle, a young man who desperately tries to search for the purpose in his life. The theme of the film revolves on Bickley’s attempts to suppress his inner demons in order to live a normal life. What makes Bickley’s attitude different from other protagonist was the fact that he had his own major psychological problems; first, he may be labeled as an anti-social since he detests mingling with people. Second, his training with the military ...