PAPER 2 A TELEVISION: Life on Mars
PAPER 2 A TELEVISION: Life on Mars
Genre ( Life on Mars is a hybrid genre text)
Use of conventions in crime and scifi genre ( characters, settings, narrative , iconography etc.) and how they are followed or subverted . Link to Neale's genre theory and how the text is a combination of familiar and different genre elements .
Narrative
Barthes enigma codes : what enigmas ( mysteries ) remain unsolved by the end of the episode ? Are any solved ?
Is the episode a restricted or unrestricted narrative ?
Use of conventions in crime and scifi genre ( characters, settings, narrative , iconography etc.) and how they are followed or subverted . Link to Neale's genre theory and how the text is a combination of familiar and different genre elements .
Narrative
Barthes enigma codes : what enigmas ( mysteries ) remain unsolved by the end of the episode ? Are any solved ?
Is the episode a restricted or unrestricted narrative ?
Representations
How are gender, ethnicity, the police and wider society represented in both the 1970s and modern day narratives of the episode ? Look at career and job roles, attitudes towards opposite genders , attitudes towards the law, use of technology , crime detection methods etc.
You should focus on these characters in particular :
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