Emer's media blog

  how is les revenants atypical of a zombie supernatural horror genres? MES of Camille is highly atypical of the zombie genre, as she lacks typical scary zombie features, she lacks blood open wounds and decaying features. Camille appears hegemonically associative of an upper middle class young woman. she doesn't act like a typical zombie, the mes of her eating a sandwich constructs a highly atypical performance which situates the audience in a very confusing mode of dress claire's reaction is highly atypical, as she doesn't attempt to defend herself or scream. Claire instead plays role of a confident and well prepared middle aged woman. this confusing mode of dress forces the audience to acknowledge that this narrative is highly atypical nys constructtong an atypical zombie narrative, Fabrice Gobert is able to target a niche audience as well as mainstream audience of pre-existing individuals who enjoy the zombie/horror genre. Applying theories of representation to Les Reven...

 t he opening as a whole suspends us in Medias-res, in the middle of the action, or cold openin Using French theorists to analyse the opening sequence The opening sequence is completely predicated on foreshadowing the events and themes of the TV show. In particular, the arresting image of a butterfly bursting out of a display cabinet encodes the themes of supernatural mystery, and the dead coming back to life, and the fragility of life. Additionally, the MES of the butterfly’s fragile wings functions as a symbolic code for fragility, and overcoming one’s problems, which are core themes of the show  Camille’s depression is both constructed and reinfroced through the anchorage of the close up shot of her staring miserably out of the coach window. This forms a binary opposition between her and the lively students who surround her, and even goes to reinforce the themes of depression, fragility and death  A binary opposition is constructed between a young couple kissing passio...

Les Revs is a narrative that is completely based on mysteries, enigmas, and hermeneutic codes. Its narrative is predicated on the fact that not all mysteries will be elaborated to the audience. Potentially this can be very frustrating, and suggests a niche and specialised audience The genre of the first episode is unclear. Comprising a number of genre conventions from a range of completely different sources, the show is very difficult to categorise, which means designating a target audience is also difficult. However, with it’s themes of characters coming back from the dead to ‘terrorise’ a small town, the show is arguably a classic example of a zombie narrative, albeit a highly unconventional one A highly confusing narrative, completely based on hermeneutic codes is established to the audience. However, in the closing montage, the audience learns a range of facts that helps them to make some conclusions about the narrative.  However, like many TV serials there are a number of herm...

Black Mirror and the 'cult' of Charlie Brooker Understanding Black Mirror in general and San Junipero in particular is not something that exists in isolation. Instead our understanding is based on a range of cultural and referential circumstances. Perhaps the most important frame of reference to understanding the TV show is an awareness of Charlie Brooker, the man who created the show, and who wrote the episode we studied. Charlie Brooker is a TV presenter, writer, media personality and social commentator (!) who gained notoriety through initially writing reviews and comic strips for videogame magazines. His big break was writing the TV column in the Guardian newspaper, which presented an often hateful and irreverent (as well as extremely funny) look at the media. Brooker's popularity extended beyond the remit of the column, and ultimately he was able to present a show, Screenwipe, on BBC4, and eventually make TV shows such as  Nathan Barley  and  Dead Set  for Chann...

 audience: the individuals who are consuming the media product / text active vs passive audiences: propaganda:  a tool used to shape the ideology of an audience demographics ; a form of categorising people  psychographics:  are a way of categorising the audience based on their beliefs and personalities audience targeting: a way of appealing to a certain audience audience  positioning: where the audience is placed by a media product. ex in the opening position of san Junipero we are positioned as yoriki in san Junipero, trough the tracing shot as she walks into tuckers club. fandom: a specific group within an audience that is more dedicated to the media product reception theory Stuart Hall: how an audience percieves or makes sense of a media product Stuart Hall argued that rather than all audiences deriving a set meaning from a media product, instead audiences will  decode  the  ideology  that ...

 Judith butler, states that sex and gender are not the same and they have different meanings  sex is a biological marker based upon chromosomical difference and anatomical difference, assigned at birth gender is fluid, is a cultural marker, butler argues that our gender is constructed through the repetition and ritual of certain actions gender is fluid and our gendered performance is always changing  performance - something that we do to appear a certain way butler argues that our gender is always changing and it is not fixed and the ways in which we act and our sexual preferences shift throughput your life. our gender is constructed through repeated actions for butler gender is policed, suppressed and challenged by heteronormative and hegemonic actions that affect our lives everyday gender performativity is how our gender affects the world around us  ritualistic actions that people do to contribute to their gender identity: dressing in specific clothes going to the ...

Jean Baudrillard states that: 'we live in a world where there is more and more information and less and less meaning.' postmodernism: a tendency in the arts which criticises existing theoretical structures , metanarratives and  ways of  thinking, essentially:   It is impossible to objectively define what is real, therefore there is no such thing as reality. the world is a confusing world that is difficult to understand metanarratives: a narrative is a way of telling a story a metanarrative is a big story that explains how we should live our lives and how to make sense of the world. examples of metanarratives:  religion politics science metanarrative: success comes through hard work the premodern age: art is in the hands of the few, a privileged and cultured elite. from the renaissance period onward art aims to demonstrate authenticity', demonstrated to the time and craftsmanship involved to produce it along with the...