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 ?

 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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