BBC News - Report into 'Body Image' concerns

Link to report on growing concerns regarding 'Body Image', including children as young as 5 being pressured to look a certain way.

Very useful when considering the Dove 'Campaign for Real Beauty' issues.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18260133

Also related stories:
Vogue magazine calling for 'healthier' models
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/17996975

Governemnt concerns over bullying related to Body Image
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/18260564

Potential damage regarding 'lack' of positive female role models
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18033198

Men unhappy with 'beer belly' image
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16430142

Call for 'photoshopped' images to be labelled
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10856055

A2 Media: Eden Lake - further reading

Click on the links below for a collection of articles on the impact of Eden Lake, the 'demonisation' of youth and the society which is represented - all taken from the excellent 'Collective Identity' blog.


http://collectiveidentity.posterous.com/eden-lake

http://collectiveidentity.posterous.com/demonisation-of-youth-past-and-present

http://collectiveidentity.posterous.com/hoodies-cinemas-new-bogeyman

One quote, in particular, is worth highlighting here from the second link:
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
Recent? No - this was written in approximately 345 B.C (that's nearly 2500 years ago), by the Greek philosopher, Plato. So perhaps the actions of the youths in Eden Lake are not so shocking, after all?

AS Media Revision Texts - Week Four

Lynx Attract - 'Him and Her' advert

Preview for Mad Men TV series - "Joan is back"

The Guardian newspaper advert, 'Points of View' from 1986

Preview for Skins, Series 6

ITV News report on Michelle Obama's visit to a North London girl's school, 2009

Trailer for Waterloo Road, Series 8 (2012), a drama set in a fictional school in the north of England

Reuters News report on the UK Riots, 2011

Trailer for The Iron Lady, 2012 - biographical film of Margaret Thatcher

Preview for The X Factor, 2011 series

A2 Media - 'Eden Lake' articles - useful background information

Taken from The Guardian's film blog - some useful background information on the film - does not contain any 'spoilers' regarding the plot, but plenty of contextual issues which the film is based on.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/sep/15/1



This review from the site, Filmstubs, also takes a similar approach, focusing on the apparent 'demonisation' of 'chavs' in the media and horror films, specifically.


http://www.filmstubs.com/2009/04/considering-chav-as-britains-new-movie.html