COLLECTIVE IDENTITY

In today's lesson we studied Yasmin (directed by Simon Beaufoy) in relation to British Asian identity. We used a worksheet (Yasmin screening: Discussing Questions) which you should ask for if you were absent.
We discussed the film in relation to three theoretical frameworks:

• Roland Barthes and semiotics, Mythologies, 1964 : the visual codes and symbolic significance of Yasmin's dress codes and journey to work across the Yorkshire Dales
• Erving Goffman The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, 1959: Yasmin's front stage and back stage behaviours
• Stuart Hall on audience theory : preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings.