AS Media - Daniel

Recurring Situations - Murder and attempted murder/ Terrorist plot/ Countdown to destruction/ Examining CCTV footage Police car chase/ Photofit/ Timely rescue Car search/ Clear the building / Confronting the suspect. Detective stands alone. Elements of the Narrative - Investigative narrative Clear disruption of equilibrium (Todorov) Closure of some narrative strands with some resolution Surreal elements (Martin’s vision of Jens) Driven by binary opposites e.g. cops v criminals, personal v professional Style - Chiaroscuro lighting – effect of duality or bars (imprisonment). Low key. Closed frames - entrapment Desaturated/grey/khaki colour palette – bleak Soundtrack – eerie, echoing. Windows and reflections – themes of appearance v reality Iconography - Police uniforms, cars, flashing lights and sirens  Technology- PCs/mobile phones/ evidence bags  Clues (e.g. lapel pin)/ handcuffs/ poison / gun / alibis – dates, times/jargon Setting...

The Bridge,  9PM, Saturday Night, BBC Four. They’ve given us, to name only a few, the legendary  Forbrydelsen  ( The Killing) ,  Borgen ,  Bedrag  ( Follow The Money ) – all Danish – and two distinctly different versions of the Swedish  Wallander , a character we liked so much that the BBC’s made its own excellent version with Kenneth Branagh. First aired here in 2012, and quickly acquired a devoted following, just as it had back home.  Two adaptations have since appeared: a Franco-British series,  The Tunnel , just about to start its second series, and a recently cancelled version of  The Bridge  set on the US/Mexican border. The Bridge ’s unique appeal lies in its settings: the city of Malmö in southern Sweden and Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, linked since 2002 by the Øresund Bridge. That impressive structure is a constant presence in the show, looming in the distance in misty daytime scenes or viewed from above at nigh...

Media Homework

ESSAY:  How can postmodern theory be applied to Life on Mars? Why is life on mars considered to be a postmodern show?  600-1000w) - The Postmodernism seen in Life on Mars can be seen as a reflection of modernism on Crime Dramas and especially TV. Life on Mars follows a narrative which has no link to religion, center and somehow history. Life on Mars only touches the historical elements of a stereotypical Crime Drama set in the 1970s. This ‘convention’ may for the more extreme postmodernists already judge Life on Mars as a not-postmodern show because of its elements is not linked to Postmodernism at all.  On the other hand, we might consider that Life on Mars is applied to human sciences. We experience towards the first episode the scientific idea of time travel to a different era. This is considered as a postmodern feature simply because of its idea of living the dream of travelling to another era, which in my opinion may be considered the greatest dream of human...

Modernism Postmodernism Adheres to Western hegemonic values Contests Western hegemonic values Focus on the writer Focus on the reader Focus on interiority Focus on exteriority Alienation Collective voices Unreliable narrator Ironic narrator Rejection of realism Ambivalence towards realism Literature is self-contained Literature is open and intertextual High-brow genres Mixing of high- and low-brow genres Rejection of literary conventions Parody of literary conventions Metafictional Metafictional Idiosyncratic language Simple language