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SIMILARITIES
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DIFFERENCES
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THEORY
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CHARACTERS
| the detective who has a ‘natural’ instinct for law and order
| The Killing, The missing has the main detective as female |
PROPP
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NARRATIVE
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first episode often introduces a lot of different characters
| found out she was dead at start, normally they are found dead at the end |
TODOROV
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THEMES
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use of binary oppostions around familiar themes: family, community, law and
order, justice.
| identity |
LEVI-STRAUSS
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REPRESENTATION
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reactionary
representations of police, family, law and order, urban/rural
| radical response- the detectives are females, normally seen as males. |
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.
| clues are identified throughout the series |
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