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CATEGORY
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SIMILARITIES
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DIFFERENCES
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THEORY
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CHARACTERS
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the detective who has a ‘natural’ instinct for law and order
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The Killing, The mising has the main detective as female
Male sidekick
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PROPP
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NARRATIVE
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the first episode often introduces a lot of different characters
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Ended with death, usual starts with death
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TODOROV
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THEMES
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the use of binary oppostions around familiar themes: family,
community, law and order, justice.
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Identity – female lead, male sidekick
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LEVI-STRAUSS
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REPRESENTATION
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reactionary representations of police, family, law and order,
urban/rural
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Radical gender roles for Detectives
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SEMIOTICS
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TECHNICAL CODES / LANGUAGE OF MOVING IMAGE (music, setting, props,
lighting, use of camera, editing etc)
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opening montage sequence that often gives clues as to the whole series
– themes, locations, characters, events etc.
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