Revolver Entertainment is known for being a producer and distributor UK films that have predominantly purport to represent the working-class demographic and the lifestyle of London youth - especially British working-class youth. A main example of this is Kidulthood (released in 2006, directed by Menhaj Huda) which is based in West London, in suburban areas similar to those in North/East/South London. This film has focussed on a narrow representation of London Youth, which although negative and at times controversial, has proved very popular with working-class youth audiences who have been starved of mainstream representation in recognized contemporary cinema. The opening sequence of Kidulthood makes it clear right from the start that the action is set in a world where tension and aggression are part of everyday life.
Zengotita (from Colombia university), defined representation in post-modern terms when he stated “Almost everything we know about the world comes to us through some sort of media and this influences our view of the
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According to Marxist philosophy, the characters are going against the values of the bourgeois as throughout the film, the audience observes working-class young male and females in Kidulthood participating in underage sex, drugs usage, and other criminal offences against the middle-class. According to Greg Philo, contemporary ‘hoodie cinema’ reflects middle-class anxiety about the threat to their dominance posed by the working-class (gang culture), and therefore Kidulthood’s representation of the working-class reinforces the social hegemonic views of