TV CSP’s Revisit

“A group of police officers try their best to keep the streets of Manchester free of crime. When all else fails, they decide to use unconventional methods to teach the perpetrators a lesson.”

  • The genre of the show is multi-genre’d/ hybrid genre. It is a drama/ police procedural/ dark comedy

Feminist culture –

Van Zoonen – Van Zoonen believes the media portray images of stereotypical women and this behaviour reinforces societal views. The media does this because they believe it reflects dominant social values (what people believe in) and male producers are influenced by this. [Word Press]

This relates to No Offence as recent advancements in feminism and the increasing culture of women empowerment and empowerment of different cultures creates a countertype to usual conventional media ideologies by casting a mainly female cast where women are in positions of power which goes against patriarchal society norms.

Toril Moi – According to Professor of Literature Toril Moi, feminist theory has become so abstract that it no longer says anything about ordinary women’s lives. Concepts like intersectionality have become so overtheoretical that they no longer apply to people’s actual experiences. [Kilden]

Judith ButlerSex is a biological category; gender is a historical category. Butler questions that distinction by arguing that our “gender acts” affect us in such material, corporeal ways that even our perception of corporeal sexual differences are affected by social conventions. [Source]

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