Context

• What was the setting of PB?

  -After WW1

  -Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and Bradford
• Who created PB?


  Steven knights

  ->Brings in a preselected audience due to being recognisable
• Who was it produced by?

  Caryn Mandabach Production and Tiger aspect production

  ->Both known for their high quality content
• First aired on the BBC ion September 2013
• Who was it directed by?

  Otto Badhurst
• What is the main plot of PB?

  -Centres around the PB's ambitions and highly intelligent boss - Tommy Shelby (played by Cillian Murphy)

  -Catches the attention of Chief Inspector Chester Campbell

  ->Levi-strauss - Binary Opposites
• What are the clothes worn by the gang members?

  Distinctive clothing style - peaked caps, Cravats (ties) and bell bottom trousers
• What is typically worn by girlfriends of gang members?

  Display of pearls, well-developed fringe covering their whole forehead + half their eyes (cover any bruises or black eyes) and gaudy covered silk covering their throats (covering any abuse)
• Based on a true story of a criminal gang in Birmingham, in the late 19th century
• The PB were one of the urban youth gangs

  ->Name is said to have come from the practice of stitching razor blades into the peak of their flat caps

  -->Use as a weapon/intimidation

  -->Found to be a myth
• Crime drama?


  -Usually focuses on the committing and solving of a crime

  -Fictional re-creation of real-life stories

  -Best TV crime dramas engage the audience because we believe in the characters and the world that is created
• Toxic Masculinity?


  -Cinematic trope of war - ravaged soldiers, leveraging toxicity to become successful, violent gangsters

  ->Learned traits if war providing/creating a framework for marginalized men to act aggressive/criminal like

  -Scripting, scenes and gender dynamics - demonstrating manifestations of masculine behaviours bred into war cultures

  -Media depicts was as violence, then depicts actors as celebrated in hyper masculine portrayals

  ->Females must exhibit counter-masculinity characteristics (logic, compassion)