*

*         I'm not sure if I understand the question, but I think these images

* have been nothing *but* co-opted into standard Hollywood fare.

*

*         Most often, punk imagery is used in that tired old trope of the

* baddass with a heart of gold.  Depending on how you define punk, I guess

* one example (albeit Hollywoody) is _Pretty in Pink_ where the feisty Record

* Store manager (played by Annie Potts) acts as the mother figure to Molly

* Ringwald's brooding li'l lip-biter.  Her maternal musings could be seen as

* contradictory to the values (?) of punk.

*

*         IMHO, attempting a postmodern treatment of punk might be a little

* like trying to picking up the tweezers with the tweezers; irony,

* appropriation, self-consciousness, and disdain for hierarchies seems to be

* pretty central to both "movements."  However--being a poseur of no small

* renown--I'm an expert neither on POMO or punk, so take all I say with a

* man-sized grain o' salt.  :-)

*

*         Happy punking!

 

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Mark

 

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