The Returned

The genre

• Hybrid genre - Zombie genre, Mystery, Sci-fi
• Channel 4, high cultural capital 

Media language 

Todorov - narrative

Levi Strauss - Binary oppositions 

• Simon v Thomas 
• Camille v Lena 

Steve Neale 

• Genre is recognisable by does change over time and borrows from other genres
• Genre is important to insitutions because it helps them to market texts 

Poetic realism 

• Shots were simply constructed but with another-worldly purity from the lighting and camera techniques used 
• Dealt with characters who were disillusioned, with perhaps one last chance at happiness 
• They are fatalistic in tone and had a sense of impending doom and the bittersweet irony of human existance 

Impact on The Returned

• Genre conventions are socially and historically relative 
• Sense of…