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Sin City - 2005, noir style based on Frank Millers Graphic Novel.

Burn After Reading - Coen brothers. Spy,thriller,comedy

Touching the Void - Expedition style documentary.

Sin City

Neo noir, Graphic novel, elements of Horror

Conventions :

• Long Shadows
• Red,Black,White
• Urban Settings
• Polluted
• Corrupt characters
• Prostitutes
• Femme Fatale
• Anti-Heroes
• Rain
• Cynism
• Violence

Iconography :

• Rain
• Guns
• 50's cars
• Trench coats
• Blood

Burn After Reading

Hybridity - mixture of genre elements. Thriller, Satirical Comedy.

• Suspense
• Action
• Threat
• Tongue in cheek comedy
• Blackmail
• Paranoia
• Male vs. Female
• Farce
• Hightened Stereotypes

Setting - Washington, spy story involving CIA.

Iconography :

• Spy cameras
• Guns
• Russian Diplomats
• Gym

Big stars playing against character type.

Touching the Void -

Grieson - "The creative treatment of actuality". Drama documentary

Nicholls - exposition style. Bruzzi - documentary makers mix styles and audiences know they're constructs.

Conventions :

• Talking heads/Interviews
• Reconstuction
• On screen text (Days)
• No narrator
• Music - build tension, set scene
• Codes of realism - close ups of equipment, ice falling etc.
• Moral Dilema

Sin City -

Multi stranded narrative, some crossovers. Voice over narration.Barthes Enigma code. Why has he killed her?.

That yellow ******* - Propp (Hartigan - Hero, Villain - Roark Jnr/Snr., Donor - police, Helper/false hero - Bob, Princess - Nancy, Dispatcher - Hartigan-lone wolf).

The hard goodbye - Voglers Hero's Journey

The Big Fat Kill - Todorov (Equilibrium - Dwight follows Jackie to old town, Disruption - Jackie killed, Recognition - Dwight finds Jackie is cop, Attempt repair - Dwight get rid of body in tar pits, Repair - Dwight & Prostitutes defeat mob & cops, Equilibrium - Dwight gets girl & Status Quo restored).

Levi Strauss Binary Oppositions - Good vs. Evil, Men vs. Women, Ugly vs. Beauty.

Burn After Reading -

Linear narrative. Fragmented - audience confusion. Todorov loosely works ( )

Barthes codes (

Touching the Void -

Traditional narrative. Documentary Drama