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Extreme negotiation The final montage of Les Revenants episode one represents the sexual act as deeply complex one with potentially grave consequences. This highly confrontational and even problematic sequence encourages a range of highly polysemic audience interpretations  Seen from a christian viewpoint, the sequence could be seen to reinforce the ideology that ore-mnarital sex is wrong and is punished. However,  the punishment is highly irregular and involves Camille dying instead, affecting the family. Is this a biblical allegory the scene reinforces   that sex is important to lena's   character and establishes one of her primary motivations. This sex positive representation is somewhat unusual, especially in the horror genre, and may appeal to feminist audiences as lena has her own autonomy the use of close up shots and lack of non diabetic sound position the audience above them, in a vouyeristic mode of adress. this deliberately uncomfortable montage emphasises...

Task 1 - please copy the following information in to a new blog post called 'Les Revenants research' 26 November 2012 on Canal+ United Kingdom 9 June 2013 on Channel 4 2 series, 8 episodes each Based on the French film  They Came Back  ( Les Revenants , dir. Robin Campillo 2004) Created by Fabrice Gobert the show is a remake of a film called 'they came back' this was financially successful because the film already has pre-sold fanbase A analysis iof the song Batcat by Mogwai Mogwai are a glaswegian post rock band who have been performing since the early 1990s A big emphasis on heavy, distorted guitar music creates a solid wall of sound. A chaotic blend of three guitarists and a bassist and drummer reinforces the hectic mode of address. The song is structured around a single repetitive and simplistic riff. Extremely distorted, at times it’s hard to make out what is actually being played. Their music is angry, anxiety inducing, threatening, which is further anchored throu...

Audience negotiation and Les Revenants Explore how TV shows can target and attract a niche or specialised audience. Make reference to both the Black Mirror episode San Junipero and The Returned to support your answer [30]  Who's is the audience for les revenants? 1. fans of the zombie genre 2. educated middle class audiences 3. fans of mogwai 4. foreign media fans 5. moody teenagers Casting - thinking about Julie by selecting a hegemonically average woman to play the role of Julie, the producers position the audience in a more relatable mode of address  Audience positioning - how the audience are placed by the producer of a media product (ex. placed in a certain situation) Examples of positioning: we can position ourselves through narrative, we may know something g that the characters within the media product don't, we are essentially helpless in their situation the use of pov shots are the most explicit way of positioning an audience Key scene - Victor and Julie How are ...