LIFE ON MARS
LIFE ON MARS
Full revision pack (all sections)
Large visual handout 1 Media language and text
Large visual handout 2 Representation Industry and Audience
Eduqas Student Notes: Industry and Marketing Life on Mars
Full revision pack (all sections)
Large visual handout 1 Media language and text
Large visual handout 2 Representation Industry and Audience
Eduqas Student Notes: Industry and Marketing Life on Mars
LINK TO EPISODE 1
70s cop shows INFORMATION
Summarise the key points about S1 ep 1 of Life on Mars in the following areas
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 ?
Summarise the key points about S1 ep 1 of Life on Mars in the following areas
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 :
Sam Tyler
Gene Hunt
Annie Cartwright
Nelson
Today you will begin to prepare 2 questions to complete when we are back
All questions 30 marks ( 50 minutes) if both texts or 15 marks (25 minutes) if one text only.
To what extent can Neale’s Genre Theory be applied to the set episode of Life on Mars?
How far are representations in the set episode of Life on Mars stereotypical? Explore at least four different sequences in your answer
To what extent do you agree that female characters in both Life on Mars and The Bridge go against stereotypes? Apply the theories of hooks and Van Zoonen to your points.
