Life on Mars: media language
- Created by: emmalouise0219
- Created on: 26-09-19 12:40
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- Media Language: Life on Mars
- Conventions
- Recurring Situations
- murder
- arrest
- secrets revealed
- street chase
- collecting evidence
- Elements of narrative
- Style
- closed frames
- tracking shots
- panning shots
- Iconography
- police/crime jargon
- cars/sirens
- blood
- Setting
- urban
- SOC
- office
- Themes
- morality
- guilt
- Sam after Maya is kidnapped
- mortality
- when Sam almost jumps off building
- conscience
- when Sam throws evidence in the bin
- sanity and mental health
- Stock characters
- partners
- Gene and Sam
- Sam and Annie
- maverick cop
- femme fatale
- Maya
- rookie cop
- Sam in 1973
- suspects
- Colin Raimes
- partners
- Recurring Situations
- PM
- bricolage
- 'Life on Mars' - Bowie
- 'Watch out, there's a thief about' advert
- 70s kids TV
- parody/ homage
- Gene Hunt
- High Noon 'sheriff'
- 70's cop shows
- Gene Hunt
- irony
- Maya needing to be saved in 2006/Annie saving Sam in 1973
- Going back in time to 1973 after the accident.
- ambiguity
- why has Sam gone back in time?
- what's happened to Sam - is he dead? is he in a coma?
- anti-realist
- Sam's hallucinations
- when man speaks to Sam through the TV
- Sam's hallucinations
- narrative fragmentation/distortion
- vision of the forest
- reference to popular culture
- 70s cars
- 70s clothing
- record store/music
- intertextuality
- Back to the future
- The Sweeney
- self-reflexive
- 'What year is it?'
- bricolage
- Binary oppositions
- 1973 vs 2006
- new policing vs old policing
- forensics vs gut instinct
- Annie vs Maya
- illusion vs reality
- corruption vs honesty
- debate vs violence
- Gene vs Sam
- chauvinist vs new man
- ruthlessness vs sensitvity
- heart vs brain
- bigotry vs political correctness
- 1973 vs 2006
- Genre
- repetition
- stock characters
- audiences get pleasure from characters like Gene who provide a sense of nostalgia
- narrative structure (solving of a crime each episode)
- stock characters
- difference
- combines two genres together (crime/sci-fi) to create a hybrid
- combines more than one narrative form (serial, series and flexi-narrative)
- maybe due to the changes in technology where people can record or watch shows whenever they like
- stock characters have become more complex
- more modern titles provide enigma for the audience
- Life on Mars could mean several things
- repetition
- Narrative
- Todorov's theory
- disruption: Sam's accident
- recognition: 'what year is this?'
- equilibrium: 2006
- resolution: the rest of the episode
- restricted narrative
- LOM is a combination of a series, serial and flexi-narrative
- plenty of narrative strands
- Todorov's theory
- Conventions
- intertextuality
- Back to the future
- The Sweeney
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