Dominant, Oppositional and Negotiated Readings of Representation
Stuart Hall's theory (see audiences) is also useful in understanding how some representations reflect the dominant culture e.g. patriarchy, women in The Sun and in Men's Magazines like FHM. However, some representations can be negotiated or even misunders
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Tessa Perkins
Stereotyping has Elements of Truth: "Although stereotyping can have negative effects often it is based of some degree of reality but distorted and manipulated for the purpose of entertainment values".
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Stuart Hall: Encoding and Decoding
model of studying media production and reception that argues the production and consumption of media texts are social processes in which ideological meaning is constructed
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Angela McRobbie
Post Feminist Icon Theory: "Lara Croft, Lady Gaga and Madonna for example could be identified as post feminist icons as they exhibit the stereotypical characteristics of both the male and female - strength, courage, control and logic but also are willing
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Narratology of Witnesses
The narrative of Witnesses can be defined as postmodern in its self-reflexive style - particularly in its narrative about the family.
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How does the use of the narrative conventions of the crime drama?
Use of enigmas, binary oppositions, restricted and omniscient narration etc and the position of the audience
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Steve Neale - Genre Theory
Genres are based on instances of repetition and variation
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Todorov
Describes that narrative follows the pattern of: equilibrium, disruption, conflict, resolution and new equilibrium
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crime drama
A drama that involves a detective story
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Mise-en-scene
arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted
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Producer of Witnesses
Cinétélévision
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Distributer in the UK shared Witnesses
Channel 4
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Witnesses narrative type
Linear
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How does Witnesses and The Missing make the location evident to the audience
Establishing Shots
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Witnesses was created by:
Marc Herpoux and Hervé Hadmar
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Witnesses broadcast in the UK on:
22 July 2015
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Uk Viewers for S1E1?
1.1 million
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Nordic Noir/Scandi noir
a genre of crime fiction usually written from a police point of view and set in Scandinavia or Nordic countries.
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Colour Palette
Blue and grey
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Enigma Code
Puzzles to be solved that pleasurably delay story's end
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Action code
Something that happens in the narrative that tells the audience that some action will follow.
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semantic codes
represents information in terms of its meaning
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Symbolic codes
used to form mental representations of words-they represent concept instead of physical observation
(e.g. letter "x" is not just 24th letter of alphabet, but can represent multiplication)
when representation=not literal/exact image of the thing, it's sy
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Code and conventions of a Crime Drama
Dramatic music
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Families in Witnesses
Nuclear Family
Mother, father and children living as a unit
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Colour symbolism in Witnesses
Cold, emotionless, bitter, gritty.
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Location and plot
The realist setting of Northern France is contrasted structurally with the fantastical and horror elements of the plot.
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Stereotyping has Elements of Truth: "Although stereotyping can have negative effects often it is based of some degree of reality but distorted and manipulated for the purpose of entertainment values".
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