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  The duffer brothers The duffer brothers were born in 1984 and began making films in the third grade on a Hi8 camera. They moved to orange county California in order to attend chapman university in film studies where they both graduated in 2007. After writing a number of short films, a script of theirs was picked up by warner media for the film Hidden in 2011. the brothers directed the film in 2012 and were later hired by Director M. Night Shyamalan to write for his Fox drama Wayward pines.  Stranger things After discussing the movie as a jumping off point they said a lot of their stories and ideas were based off of cold war experiments and the supernatural being more grounded in reality. This is where the idea for stranger things came from as the monster to appear in the show is not some spiritual demon but rather a lifeform from another dimension disturbed by experiments. Furthermore the character of 11 is based loosely on the CIA experiments program MKUltra which was a plan to use

 Stranger Things Sci fi buddy  Thriller Love Coming of age The Killing Thriller  Detective Nordic Noire Nordic Noire, also known as Scandinavian noire, is a genre of crime fiction set in the Scandinavian countries. The stories are normally set from a police point of view and tackle dark crimes like murder, kidnapping and rape whilst reflecting tones of racism and misogyny in daily Scandinavian society. The genre is in contrast to the typical English country house murder mystery akin to Sherlock Holmes or Gosford park. Stranger things The show represents the cultural; icon of a American small western town community The shows intertextuality shows the 1980s Spielbergian tv family of a mostly white, suburban life with a mother trying tov hold the family together and a detached or absent father figure with children banding together and becoming loyal  The show embodies the idea of 'an enemy within' in a post 9/11 world which there audicenc3e will be more aware of terrorism The show

Talk about  the   theorist.   Give examples of the case  studies.   Ay how the theory applies to  media.   Say how it does  not.       How to  approach   question  one   First, describe a typical male and  female.   Female- Smaller, caring, maternal, more  emotional.     Male- Stronger, aggressive, taller, more immature , sports     Lisbet Van  Zoonen  Feminist theory   Her theory says that our idea of gender identity come from the media and it influences the clothes we buy our children, the sports we let our kids play and how we overall raise our kids.  Looking at films in the past  which depict women as damsels in distress who need protecting and men being action  hero's shape the way we see masculinity.  Zoonen  also  believes  that identity is not  fixed,  and changes based on the cultur al context  as what it means to be masculine will change based on time and location  for example, women will have a vastly different gender identity compared to the UK.  The next part of  Zoone

 Three news headlines 1. Families distraught over their dead children's names being used by undercover police officers 2. 3. Two Media theories  1. Stuart Halls representation theory 2. David Gauntletts' Identity theory One statistic 1. 80% of the newspaper industry is controlled by 3 companies Klay Shirky's End of audience theory Basically says the idea of an audience that mindlessly enjoys what they can, He believes that audiences are far more active and thanks to the introducing of technology has made use more expecting of entertainment instantly and now expect more interaction with our entertainment. Things like newspapers and magazines are declining as they are much less interactive. The news is brought to us in completely different ways and as newspapers are in competition with one another by offering services that will give them the edge over rivals. Audiences no longer want to be at the bottom of the hierarchy when it comes to entertainment, they now want to directl

 The show was globally distributed across Europe in countries like Germany and Holland and the shows success is largely attributed to another Nordic Noire show Wallander which came before it. There are three series in total with most being set in the Danish military and following themes of rape, torture, kidnapping and murder, typical Nordic noire conventions. The show was critically acclaimed and received BAFTA awards and Emmys Novels of the series were produced by Macmillan The show received an American adaptation The different worlds of the characters overlap in the show with it showing not only the murder cases, but also the domestic world of both our protagonist Sarah Lund and the domestic life off the victims family the Brik Larssens. This is done to ground the show in reality and show the impact things like murder can have on a person's life. Furthermore the integrate the political element of the country into the show to give the show more depth and spread out the narrative.

 Character adjectives Sarah Lund - cold, methodical, enthralled, rational, careful Theis Birk Larsen - caring, emotional, protective, reasonable, aggressive Inspector Jan- dismissive, comedic, unreasonable, laid-back Pernille-  emotional, protective,    Nanna - secretive, terrified, vulnerable Mayor Bremer-  corrupt,  Troels Hartmann- corrupt, passionate Men are perhaps portrait as more one dimensional compared to the women in the story 3.6.1.5.4.7.2 1. Nanna runs away from her pursuer 2. Sarah Lund moves out of her office 3. Pernille calls Theis to fix her dishwasher 4. Politician Troels Hartmann visits the grave of his dead wife 5. Lisa text Nanna 6.Theis shows Vagn his new house 7.The body of nanna is discovered in the boot of a car still 1. Nanna, a 19 year old student, is hiding in the woods from her pursuers. Still 2. Troels Hartmann and his associate Rie, who are having an affair, are engaged in passionate eye contact after returning his watch Still 3. Theis and Pernille are enj

the regulatory body of the press is considered weak and has little to no clout in stopping papers, For example, the daily mail ran a story of a murder. In march 2021, they ran a story on the murder of Sarah Everard, in which they constantly pinned the murder on the police officer who was suspected to have commuted the crime. In which, they gave the mans name, address and many other details which would normally result in complaints. The daily mail is a very pro-royal paper, one of the main reasons is because of their owner, Viscount Rothmere Stuart \hall- representation theory 'Meghan Markle's public image has been tainted by the media's constant bashing of her and constructed villainous persona '. I believe that Meghan has been targeted due to many factors such as her gender, her race, her nationality and her personality all clashing with right-wing views. stereotypes often come about when the dominant hegemonic group are in power. The hegemonic group in our society is

 The Killing    Tv crime drama produced in Denmark. Initial observation:  more natural lighting. gritty noire setting, female protagonist, murder/crime drama, political figures, police drama, tension. All of these are aspects of the Nordic Noire drama.  Nordic noire:  explores corruption, rape, misogyny, racism, police, shootings, child abduction and other dark and seedy parts of society. It will also typically be written for the police point of view. The protagonist will also tend to be a complex and unconventional hero, standing out from the gritty setting. Shows like the killing explore parental grief in harrowing detail. Media language- Not shown the whole body which allows us to imagine what the cause of her death might be. Racial tension- constantly mock Sweden even getting the police chief a mock Swedish sex doll before she departs. misogyny- he police chief is a woman which is very uncommon, the forensics are very dismissive of prostitutes. Main character is shown to be more

 Genre Genre is the word given to the subsidiaries of entertainment like books, movies and television and are defined by the the different tropes and conventions they posses as well as emotions they create. for example text in the Horror genre will typically include darkness, mystery, murder and convey the feelings of dread and fear.   This image defines the  group or buddy genre mostly as the  it  shows 4 best friends sitting around a table playing . It also  represents a coming of age story with the character . The camera angle tried to encompass all 4 friends at  once show their importance to the story . There is also a light switched on November wills head giving the audience a foresight into what the main plot point is going to be.       This image best describes the  coming of age genre,  the camera work deliberately isolates the two on screen  to give you a sense of togetherness , making the older man come off as a father figure  with eleven.  The re is also shuttle use of miss