The representation of football hooligans changed through-out different time periods research and annotated catalogue.

Focus Films

Item 1:  Awaydays - Pat Holden (2009)

Primary Source.
This film is appropriate for my research as it displays a perspective on football violence and football hooligans from a writer in 2009 basing the film in 1979, The film shows the football gang in general but also shows that members are in fact individuals with own individual problems and views. The film connects to single characters not only the main subject of the violence for example the character "Carty" is dying to get involved with "The Pack" and has to work his way he and you also see interesting parts of his relationships with members of "The Pack" and his Family. Another interesting example is of the character "Elvis" who has everything that "Carty" dreams of but he is not happy with his life and to some extent seems "dark" which he cannot get out of. This films genre and subjects raised within the film allows it to be connected to my other primary sources.

Item 2: The Firm - Nick Love (2009)

This film is beneficial to my project as it is another perspective on the same subject and similar characters but based in a different decade. It’s a good example of individual characters, gangs and society within that time period. The film itself is set in the late 1980's, based around a young character called "Dom" who pushes to get involved in a football gang run by top boy "Bex", "Dom" is accepted into the gang and becomes one of the boys, he relises that the fighting is becoming out of hand and to some extent based on "Bex's" personal issues and hatred.