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Les Revenant and representation

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- Represents older audience - Her outfit is quite smart showing her matureness compared to other characters - Looks more happy than the other - Represents young teen girls - She has been casted as she looks young yet the actor herself is 18 - Target audience of french teens can relate to her - She is quite covered up and smartly dressed for a teenager so an atypical representation so binary opposition from who she is to the way she looks - No make up make up look so she looks very natural - Binary opposition between Camille and the background - Camille is a complex representation - Her complicated character is represented in the complicated narrative - Represents parents and a grieving mother - plain simple clothes suggesting she doesn't take care of her appearance also relating to the grieving mother - stereotypical aspirational middle class mother - Appeal to heterosexual middle aged men in France - Middle age women will aspire to be her ...

Les revenant and exam structure

  Introduction (DAC) - D efinition - A rgument (Argue 1 way and stick to it) - C ontext 2012 Les revenants released Paragraphs (PEA) - P oint - E vidence - A rgument The words to include in the exam... - Polysemy - Hegemony - Intertextuality  - Ideology  - Negotiation (Stuart Hall) "In the 21st century, it is essential for Tv shows to offer multiple meanings"  - evaluate this claim with reference to Les Revenants  - Yes it is essential - Relates to cult Tv - Reception theory (Stuart Hall) -extreme long shot of road and bus - Setting - mountains, the alpes - interior mid shot of Camille sitting on bus - Camille is main focus has more screen time on the bus and is consistently framed in a montage of close up shots which positions the audience with the young Camille. Camilles age allows teenage audiences to invest - Suggests time has passed - Slow zoom from exterior to interior focused on butterflies in frame - Soundtrack by - Camer...

Les revenant and genre

The Returned  ( French :  Les Revenants ) is a French supernatural drama television series created by Fabrice Gobert, based on the 2004 French film  They Came Back  ( Les Revenants ), directed by  Robin Campillo . The series debuted on 26 November 2012 on  Canal+  and completed its first season, consisting of eight episodes, on 17 December. In 2013, the first season won an  International Emmy  for Best Drama Series. The second season, also comprising eight episodes, premiered on 28 September 2015 on Canal+. It premiered in the UK on 16 October 2015 on  More4 , and in the US on 31 October 2015 on  Sundance TV . Les revenants: - 26 November 2012 on Canal+ - Unite Kingdom 9th June 2013 on channel 4 - 2 Series, 8 eps each - Based on the French film They Came Back Les Revenants: - Many different arcs within Les revenants (different narratives)  - Unique and unconventional narrative  - The wh...
Humans vs real humans - Matilda in British version more unpleasant than in Swedish version - British version contains British stereotypes and Swedish one has Swedish stereotypes - Swedish version factory worker punches his wife so more shocking - Sweden may be more worried about domestic violence as portrayed a lot throughout the first episode - The bots in the factory represent foreign workers in Sweden - Synths are being used for prostitution more in Swedish version -
Henry Jenkins - Textual poaching  Star Trek fan video (Kirk and Spock) - ships two characters - Wants her story to come across Fan - a particularly active fan, they are active participants in the construction and circulation of textual meanings Fan sub - A subtitle file made by a fan

Regulation

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Regulation - The rules and restrictions that a media product needs to follow Why do regulations exist in television? The primary reason is so children don't see particular content that involves violence, taboo language and sexual things for children these things may be traumatising  The watershed - a voluntary time tv channels put shows with lack f restrictions (after 9) Audience theory: Active  Passive Harm and offence: Hurts people feeling or upsets them, could be blasphemy    Sonia Livingston and Peter Lunt: Media is getting harder to regulate due to digital technologies and the internet  Self regulation - parents can set pins and passwords so you can't watch certain things Scenes from Humans which may cause harm or offence: This may cause harm and offence as... - Kidnapping may trigger memories - depicts unconcious women being dragged away - Connotations of murder and sexual assault   This may cause h...

Persona synths

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How does this product use intertextuality? Humans opening scene of the close up of eye relates to intertextuality in blade runner. Both are of the sci fi genre  and blade runner has lots of shots in the opening scene of an eye which is similar to the opening shot of the eye in humans. Humans: - A-typical of sci fi - Representations of slaves, gender roles and sexuality - Genre conventions: synths themselves (robotic), glowing eyes, robots but Humans is different as the actual synths are really like humans which presents an ideology to the audience who will think about and reflect on the nature of their existence - Postmodern text to make it more interesting  Marketing For Humans: Persona synths - Trying to sell the product - Creates a world where buying synths is made possible - The persona synthetics website allows the audience to explore the narrative of the show beyond the show. The packing slip is is a proairetic code suggesting something is going to go wr...