How Useful Is An Ideological Critical Approach Been In Understanding The Narrative Resolution?

How Useful Is An Ideological Critical Approach Been In   Understanding The Narrative Resolution?

This is England (Shane Meadows 2006), is the story of a gang of British teenagers and their endeavours over the course of the summer holidays. The narrative is centred on young skin heads in the 1980's, specifically twelve-year-old Shawn, a lonely and isolated boy growing up in a grim, costal town after his father died in the Falkland's war.

Over the course of the holidays, he finds comfort in his new-found friends where he discovers a world of parties, drugs, love and racism. Shawn meets Combo, an older, racist skinhead who has recently been released from prison. As the targeted demographic, we begin to see the films ideology through the character lens of Combo and his actions. One of the primary scenes we see of Combo is him harassing the towns ethnic minorities which therefore illustrates a nationalist image of Combo to the audience. We again recognise this in the scene where Combo gifts Shawn with a Union Jack. This scene intertwines with another ideology that runs through the film; "masculinity"