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Key idea: the political, personal and cultural are always intertwined

The Idea of Resistance and Political Protest

Culture is what influences people’s hearts, minds and opinions. This is the site of popular change.

Hegemonic: dominant, ruling-class, power-holders
● Hegemonic culture: the dominant culture
● Cultural hegemony: power, rule, or domination maintained by ideological and cultural means.
● Ideology: worldview – beliefs, assumptions and values

● In the 1970s, a group of cultural theorists in Birmingham applied Gramsci’s theories to post-war
British working-class youth culture
● Looked at working class cultures like the teddy-boys, mods, skinheads, and punks – subcultures
unified by shared tastes in fashion, music and ideology.
● They argued argued that the formation of subcultures offered young working class people a solution
to the problems they were collectively experiencing in society.

The caged birds sings for freedom to bring

“Slavery’s still alive, check Amendment 13”

amendment 13 states “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” this states that if your a criminal a punishment can therefore be slavery therefore having America profiting on people

post colonialism

But here it is specifically looking at identity and representation through the lens of Empire and Colonialism.

The Shadow of Slavery

post colonialism is a way of critically looking at culture a key figure is Edward Saiv he wrote a book called orientalism

and he’s talking about the link between culture and imperial colonialism

Jacques Lacan: “The other”

he talks abut the search for identity by looking at the mirror and the mirror is like a media text.

My film is going to be about someone who is being followed by a evil entity that they cant see or hear it will follow them as the person tries to get rid of it.

statement of intent- i am going to be filming someone who is trying to escape something that they cant see of hear.

The genre of my film is drama, horror

dominant signifier : the dominant signifier in this image is the characters they stand out because they are the main thing in this image the fact they have a blindfold on is also significant

the writing: the letters on the image are bold and therefore your eyes are drawn to it.

the actors Julian Edwards, Vivien Lyra Blair, Sandra Bullock

dominant signifier: the dominant signifier in this image is the character looking up at the celing.

ankerite: the writing on this image is bold and stands out and it is linked to the horror style .

The Missing
Studying Series 2, Episode 1
The show has 2 series and 16 episodes total, it began filming of season 1 in February 2014 and filming of season 2 in February 2016. Season 1 is set in France and the UK, following Tony Hughes, his wife Emily and their son Oliver.

“The Missing is the BBC’s response to the success of ITV’s Broadchurch which reintroduced the
English language extended serial format to UK drama schedules following the success of foreign
language series such as The Killing and the The Bridge. It is an example of co-operation between
the BBC, STARZ (USA) and the Belgian government’s Tax Shelter scheme”

Witnesses
Studying Series 1, Episode 1
The show has 2 series and 14 episodes total, it is a french TV series created by Marc Herpoux and Herve Hadmar that premiered on 22nd Nov 2014. The second series premiered in France on 15th March 2017

Witnesses (2014 – 2017) – Police investigate when bodies are taken from a cemetery and placed in houses for sale, along with a photo of retired police officer Paul Maisonneuve.

• product of French public service broadcaster – France 2 – associated
with quality, serious drama in continental Europe
• France 2 were able to develop the series in the context of new
opportunities for distribution and exhibition – e.g. the Walter Presents
platform in the UK which is a subsidiary of C4, exploiting broadcast
and digital opportunities. Series distributed in US, Australia, Europe
• style, content and characters of the series deliberately designed to
replicate international success of Nordic Noir in order to target
audiences beyond the national
• The Missing contains a mix of French regional, local identity with more
familiar genre conventions and characters
• the series was marketed using familiar (to national audiences) actors
but focused on the familiar iconography of the thriller and horror
aspects abroad
• the postmodern, hyperreal style is fashionable; internationally
recognizable and popular.

The Missing (2014 – 2016) – A young British woman stumbles through the streets of Eckhausen in Germany and collapses. Her name is Alice Webster – and she was abducted from the same town 11 years ago. Her return sends shockwaves through the tight-knit local community, as her family is thrown into turmoil. As the search for the abductor gathers pace, Alice also appears to hold vital clues to the whereabouts of a second missing girl, Sophie Giroux.

subject matter is both nationally specific and deals with global issues
• BBC Worldwide, as a powerful international institution, is able to
target a global audience unrelated to the national audience
• co-production between BBC and Starz as a means of addressing
audiences and extending appeal across nations
• the second series is promoted in the context of the existing popular
brand which includes the popular thriller genre and distinctive
storytelling based on time slip elements (product identity)
• the cast is balanced to be familiar and different to both national and
international audiences (familiar British and French TV and film stars)
• themes and setting are constructed to appeal to an international
audience: setting Europe and the Middle East. Themes span the
domestic and global – family melodrama, fictionalised reference to
recent wars and themes of immigration
• conscious exploitation of global social media landscape to create both
anticipation and ongoing interest (especially Twitter: 1000 tweets a
minute).

The series was co-produced by New Pictures, Company Pictures, Two Brothers Pictures and Playground Entertainment (Merging) (International)
Although the first story is set in France and the United Kingdom, most of the scenes were filmed in Huy, Halle, Charleroi and Brussels, Belgium,[9] taking advantage of the Belgian Tax Shelter for film funding.[7] Only a few scenes were shot in Paris and London.
(International)
By shooting in multiple different countries they’re able to make the show international
Production, exhibition and distribution, exhibition: 8.5/10 out of 28 ratings on rotten tomato

WITNESS

Marie Dompnier won a Golden FIPA award for the best actress in a television series at 2015’s Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming for her role as Sandra Winckler.^[3] In March 2016

Media Language
The series is visually interesting, constructing a stylised representation of ‘real’ places which
transmit meanings about characters, places and issues. A detailed analysis of different aspects of
mise-en-scene will provide students with a strong foundation to build on in terms of analysing
representations, ideological meanings and audience positioning.

Analysis should include:
• Mise-en-scene analysis
• Semiotics: how images signify cultural meanings
• Postmodernism: Use of pastiche and bricolage
Narrative
• How does the use of the narrative conventions of the crime drama – use of enigmas, binary
oppositions, restricted and omniscient narration etc -– position the audience?
• A narrative approach to crime drama could include analysing the appeals of the structure as
reassuring and predictable – even when dealing with difficult subject matter.
• The narrative of Witnesses can be defined as postmodern in its self-reflexive style –
particularly in its narrative about the family.
• Narratology including Todorov
Genre
• Conventions of the TV series and the way in which this form is used to appeal to audiences;
how it is distinct from, but related to series and serials.
• Definition of the series as belonging to the drama and crime genres
• Analysing the current popularity of the crime genre – how might it work as metaphor for society
• Genre theory including Neale
Media Representations
Witnesses provides a range of representational areas to explore from the national and regional to
family structures and gender roles. All of the areas tend to overlap with representations of nation
signified through aspects of ethnicity, religion and class, while the reinforcement and subversion of
gender stereotypes allow students to consider how representations reflect social, cultural and
historical circumstances:
• Representation of national and regional identity (Northern France)
• Representation of gender: The woman as detective, the male boss, gender stereotypes etc.
• Feminist debates – Violence and the representation of gender. This could include the
controversy around using violent crime against women as popular entertainment
• Analysis of how the representations convey values, attitudes and beliefs about the world

Media Language
The series is visually interesting, constructing a stylised representation of ‘real’ places which
transmit meanings about characters, places and issues. A detailed analysis of different aspects of
mise-en-scene will provide students with a strong foundation to build on in terms of analysing
representations, ideological meanings and audience positioning.

Analysis should include:
• Mise-en-scene analysis
• Semiotics: how images signify cultural meanings
• Postmodernism: Use of pastiche and bricolage

Media Representations
Witnesses provides a range of representational areas to explore from the national and regional to
family structures and gender roles. All of the areas tend to overlap with representations of nation
signified through aspects of ethnicity, religion and class, while the reinforcement and subversion of
gender stereotypes allow students to consider how representations reflect social, cultural and
historical circumstances:

Media Language
The Missing is a complex mainstream television product in which the codes and conventions of
the crime drama are recognisable but they are also challenged and sometimes subverted.
Detailed analysis of this media form including the process through which media language
develops as genre will provide students with an opportunity to understand and reflect on the
dynamic nature of genre.

Analysis should include:
• Mise-en-scene analysis
• Semiotics: how images signify cultural meanings

Media Representations
The Missing provides a range of representational areas to explore; gender, the family, place,
issues, events, class