Dogtown Skaters

I believe it's both an ethnographic study and a work of entertainment because they are discussing a type of subculture that has both outsiders and insiders of skateboarding and what it meant to be in this subculture while at the same time showing clips of how the kids ripped the waves and skateboarded empty pools.  The interviews came from the major insiders of the culture and they talk about the old times and help the story move.  The attitudes toward this subculture was that either you were good at what you do or you shouldn't be there at all.  Surfing and skateboarding are the subcultures and the organization did help me understand it.  The stereotypes of a skateboarder before I watched the film was that they wear extremely tight jeans and shirts with long, scraggly hair and they act like nothing can bother them and that the law doesn't apply to them.  They still do hold true because the kids in this movie looked just like those descriptions.