Shame changes everything – NRK

You’ve probably seen most of the “Shame”. However, you most likely have not seen so many of ungdomsfilmene which has been produced in the last years.

“Shame” is a annerledesserie in many ways, also when it comes to representations of sexuality for a young audience. This must have consequences for the future of the Norwegian young people.

Annerledesserien

I have done on the representations of sexuality in the Norwegian young people. There are many aspects I could have taken hold of that makes “Shame” is different. Norwegian teenage contains conservative gender roles, moral pekefingre, problematic depictions of abuse and at the same time a sexualization of ungdomskroppen. “Shame” is not something of this.

Here I shall, however, take the for me one important feature of the autumn season of “Shame”: Never before have children and young people had access to mediefortellinger in English that provides a positive image of young homosexuality. Children and young people have barely had access to the representations of young homosexuality whatsoever. Hopefully represent the “Shame” a crossroads for Norwegian filmmakers.

Homosexuality in the youth film was selected

Homosexuality is not invisible in the Norwegian young people. On the contrary, references to homosexuality are actually quite common. The problem lies in how this is normally handled in the youth film was selected. As a rule, it is to be homo a person or an extension of the disgust, it is something that you do not want to be.

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we Look at all Norwegian teenage produced after 1969, we find only four films with homosexual characters. This applies to Sebastian (1995), bare Bea (2004), Tommy’s Inferno (2005) and the Man who loved Yngve (2008). It is only in two of these films, Sebastian and the Man who loved Yngve, which the protagonist himself has a homosexual attraction or lust. Isaac is actually a very unique character in the Norwegian young people.

Often takes the youth in the recent Norwegian young people away from homosexuality. The homosexuals are the others, those who are different. Ungdomskarakterene define themselves as hetero by explicitly taking distance from it to be homo. Homosexuality works as a demarcation of the ‘ youth sexuality. This is something of the same thing we recognize in “Shame” when Isaac does his best to play hetero for mates and for Emma. The difference is that this rarely resonates with Isaac comrades.

Homo is a common swear in Norwegian teenage, and as we know also in the Norwegian skolegårder. The few examples of this in the “Shame” is corrected instantly by the other. When, for example, Isaac is talking derogatory about homosexuals and he gets criticism, not support of his friends.

Homosex for the first time

“Shame” broke the boundaries already in the first season to portray the homosexual character Eskild. Self-confident and open homosexuals are unusual cost in stories for young people. It is also the practice of sex. In Norwegian teenage there, with the exception of a sex scene between two girls in Tommy’s Inferno, no practicing of homosexual acts. Young people practice simply not sex that is not heterosex.

In “Shame”, however, has Eskild an active and pronounced positively sexual life. In a scene in season two, we look to and with Eskild have oral sex. This is the first time a male character has homosex in English teenage. In Sebastian and the Man who loved Yngve limited namely, the homosexual acts of kissing.

New direction for the youth film was selected

the Norwegian filmmakers who want to work with young people should have a big thank you; it is narrow and small commercial. People don’t see young people, at least not in the cinema. But the way the direction and script is prepared on needs to be changed in a different direction. Norwegian filmmakers seem to largely think about the youth film was selected as a kind of oppdragelsesprosjekt: We’ll show you how you should think about sexuality. It is here, “Shame” has a completely different approach: We show you how to think.

It is important that children and young people have access to mediefortellinger as “Shame”. It is particularly in his youth, sexuality and identity are developed and created. Adolescence is a phase where you actively choose who to be. Popular culture is an important contributor to our understanding of gender, sexuality and identity. It can both confirm and challenge our felleskulturelle perceptions.

the Media works such as cultural skattekamre for children and young people’s identity development. Identitetsmarkører for gender, body and sexuality be collected actively in the media and popular culture. To represent the media a freedom for what youth can choose, what is acceptable for the identity, gender, and sexuality. “Shame” thus provides a greater scope for this option.

It is said that it has been harder to be young in the last years. “Shame” makes it easier to be young. Norwegian filmmakers will have to follow suit. If not, there is actually no point in making young people.