TV – No Offence and The Killing
| No Offence | The Killing |
| – produced by abbott vision – distributed on channel 4 – publically owned but privately funded – channel 4 remit – ‘to create change through entertainment’ – 2.5m views when first aired – broadcast on national broadcast channel France2 – 5.5m viewers – boxset available on All4 | -Consumed on DR1 – brought to the UK on BBC4 in 2011 -DR1 is a PSB -‘BBC4’s primary role is to reflect a range of UK and international arts, music and culture’ -nordic noir genre – bleak setting, violent themes, progressive attitudes towards gender, sexuality, female lead, flawed protagonist, political corruption – Over 120 countries purchased first 2 series – US series made by AMC in 2011 |
| tripartite structure quest narrative stereotypes encoding/decoding diversity resonance agenda setting pluralism socialisations | tripartite structure quest narrative stereotypes encoding/decoding PSB globalisation resonance agenda setting socialisations |
| Todorov: condensed equilibrium – disruption begins when Dinah starts chasing the suspect lack of new equilibrium = conventional of TV series Bathes: action code – Dinah sees suspect and chases him enigma code – running away of suspected criminal at end of ep cultural code – exploitations of down’s syndrome people – suggests its an issue in wider society Neale: hybrid – police procedural/ comedy Hall: subverts traditional stereotypes by representing women in dominant position – promotes female empowerment however, stereotypes disabled people by representing their harsh treatment in society – however, used to draw attention to inequalities rather than exploit it Gerbner: does depict mild violence as well as social realism – therefore narrative could make audiences prone to ‘world syndrome’ may encourage violence towards down’s people Hall: producer encode – subvert harmful stereotypes, create a light-hearted crime drama audiences decode: – preferred – interprets what the producer intended – oppositional – could view the victimisation of down’s syndrome people as demeaning | Todorov: condensed equilibrium – disruption begins when nanna is first suspected of being missing lack of new equilibrium = conventional of TV series Bathes: action code – when nanna, unknown at the time is running from someone enigma code – audience questions who she is running from Levi-Strauss: binary oppositions between police and politicians – represents politicians as suspicious, evil = conventional od nordic noir binary oppositions between detectives – one is serious, one is more light hearted = heightens tension Neale: hybrid genre of police procedural/ thriller/ nordic noir Hall: subverts traditional stereotypes by representing women in dominant position – promotes female empowerment however, representation a sexually exploited girl is conventional of female represntations – however by drawing attention to in equalities rather than exploite them Van Zoonen: does not represent women’s bodies as an object – lund is represented with ‘rationality’ and ‘individualism’ of a man whilst nanna’s victimisation can be seen as possessing conventional weakness of feminimity, the plot point is used to draw attention to violence against women rather than encourage it hooks: but televising the issue of female violence, TK aims to educate and expose patriarchal oppression of women, however does not represent divisions other than feminism eg racism, classism Hesmondhalgh: star formatting to appeal to ready made audiences – EG Lars Mikkelsen – Sherlock, House of Cards – brings more culture to English TV Gerbner: does depict mild violence as well as social realism – therefore narrative could make audiences prone to ‘world syndrome’ may encourage violence towards women Hall: Preferred – innovative and engaging Negotiated – innovative but dragged out due to long form TV Oppositional – boring/ too dark |