Subculture.

Definition:

A cultural group within a larger culture, often having beliefs or interests at variance with those of the 
larger culture.

Steampunk

This lecture will look at in particular:

Skateboarding/ parkour and free running/ graffiti as a performance of the city.

The portrayal of youth subculture in film and photography.

The Riot Grrrl movement as a feminine and feminist subculture.

Skateboarding:

Skateboarding was popularized by the 1986 skateboarding cult classic Thrashin'. Directed by David Winters and starring Josh Brolin, it features appearances from many famous skaters such as Tony Alva, Tony Hawk, Christian Hosoi and Steve Caballero. Thrashin' also had a direct impact on Lords of Dogtown, asCatherine Hardwicke, who directed Lords of Dogtown, was hired by Winters to work on Thrashin' as a production designer where she met, worked with and befriended many famous skaters including the real Tony Alva, Tony Hawk, Christian Hosoi and Steve Caballero.

Skateboarding was, at first, tied to the culture of surfing. As skateboarding spread across the United States to places unfamiliar with surfing or surfing culture, it developed an image of its own. For example, the classic film short Video Days (1991) portrayed skateboarders as reckless rebels.

The image of the skateboarder as a rebellious, non-conforming youth has faded in recent years. Certain cities still oppose the building of skateparks in their neighborhoods, for fear of increased crime and drugs in the area. The rift between the old image of skateboarding and a newer one is quite visible: magazines such as Thrasher portray skateboarding as dirty, rebellious, and still firmly tied to punk, while other publications, Transworld Skateboarding as an example, paint a more diverse and controlled picture of skateboarding. Furthermore, as more professional skaters use hip hop, reggae, or hard rock music accompaniment in their videos, many urban youths, hip-hop fans, reggae fans, and hard rock fans are also drawn to skateboarding, further diluting the sport's punk image.

Lords of Dogtown: 

I could personally class myself as a part of the skateboard sub-culture as being a part of it for over 7 years, from my teens to adulthood. It really is a way of life, the majority of my friends I met through skateboarding, and like most subcultures is generally misunderstood by the larger society it lives within.

Parkour/free-running: