Homeland follows crime drama conventions in terms of:
Mise-en-scene - Lighting is there to fit the scene and what is about to happen. Low lighting may have the same effect as pathetic fallacy.
Extremist clothing/props such as bomb jacket and guns.
Modern clothing in America.
Characters - Carrie - She is pretty but often doesn't care for her appearance. Doesn't follow stereotypical female role, she is brave, smart and independent.
Brody - Doesn't follow stereotypical male roles/he is emotional.
Narrative - Does follow crime drama narrative for leaving clues and having lots of disruptions.
Themes - Crime.
Despair.
Terrorism.
Frustration.
Mystery.
Camera work - Close up to emphasise a characters emotion.
Sound - Lots of diagetic dialogue which matches the action on screen.
Non diagetic sound that the characters can't hear on screen but fit the action to make the audience feel an emotion.
Editing - Planning to revel something.
Genre Theory Neale:
Neale argues " That genre is a process by which generic codes and conventions are shared by producers and audiences through repetition in media products."
This means that genres are not fixed, but constantly involve which each new addition to the generic corpus, often playing with genre codes and conventions or becoming hybrids with other genres.
This idea is also supported by Bently who argued, "the creative process is the rearranging of the old to create the new" (Bently, 1997).
Generic codes and conventions are not just established in media products but in products that refer to these products such as critical writings or advertising and marketing material, what Neale referred to as 'the intertextual relay'.
Neale's theory intertextual relay is useful but slightly contentious because it is equally as likely writers/producers intentionally follow conventions to represent their audience.
Evaluate the relevance of Neale's genre theory to long term television drama.
The long term TV drama Homeland Season 1 supports Neale's theory of 'intertextual relay' because it follows a number of crime drama common conventions this makes the drama relevant and entertaining to the audience who have come to expect, and be entertained by, these conventions.
Mise-en-scene follows conventions because props such as guns are used in homeland like in other crime dramas. Another convention of mise-en-scene that is used in crime dramas is the use of darker lighting to provide tension and make the scene more dramatic.
and therefore Neale's theory, because...
This is relevant to the audience because...
Neale's theory is also supported by the fact that homeland evolves through breaking some conventions like...
This is relevant to the audience because...
Levi Strauss' theory
Structuralism is the study of the hidden rules that govern a structure.
Levi-Strauss thought that the human mind could be investigated by studying the fundamental structure underlying myths and fables from around the world (which he saw as one unitary system). He developed the idea of the 'binary opposition'-that the system of myths and fables was ruled by a structure of opposing terms, e.g hot-cold, males-female, culture-nature, raw-cooked, good-bad, madness-sanity.
many writers have analysed media products using the idea of the binary opposition, but seeing the overall system as 'ideology' rather than 'human consciousness'.
Evaluate the relevance of Strauss' narrative theory to long term television drama.
Levi-Strauss' structuralism theory of 'binary oppositions' can be applied to Homeland season 1 in a number of ways and is relevant because binary oppositions were not at play, as Strauss himself summarised, the narrative would be less engaging for the target audience.
The main example of Strauss' binary opposition is the main theme of good versus evil which in this case is America versus the Middle East (America representing the good and the Middle East representing the evil). This made it relevant to the american and British audiences because they could relate to this theme as many terrorist attacks were happening in their country and it was therapeutic to see what was happening in this tv drama because unlike real life which is messy in Homeland it is more straight forward and the target audience could see that their country is good and the other country is evil.
Another binary opposition is madness versus sanity, an example of this is Carrie and her mental illness. This is relevant to the target audience because it makes her more relatable and also puts an exciting twist on the tv drama as it breaks all conventions to have someone in a job like that which such a serious bipolar disorder.
Mise-en-scene - Lighting is there to fit the scene and what is about to happen. Low lighting may have the same effect as pathetic fallacy.
Extremist clothing/props such as bomb jacket and guns.
Modern clothing in America.
Characters - Carrie - She is pretty but often doesn't care for her appearance. Doesn't follow stereotypical female role, she is brave, smart and independent.
Brody - Doesn't follow stereotypical male roles/he is emotional.
Narrative - Does follow crime drama narrative for leaving clues and having lots of disruptions.
Themes - Crime.
Despair.
Terrorism.
Frustration.
Mystery.
Camera work - Close up to emphasise a characters emotion.
Sound - Lots of diagetic dialogue which matches the action on screen.
Non diagetic sound that the characters can't hear on screen but fit the action to make the audience feel an emotion.
Editing - Planning to revel something.
Genre Theory Neale:
Neale argues " That genre is a process by which generic codes and conventions are shared by producers and audiences through repetition in media products."
This means that genres are not fixed, but constantly involve which each new addition to the generic corpus, often playing with genre codes and conventions or becoming hybrids with other genres.
This idea is also supported by Bently who argued, "the creative process is the rearranging of the old to create the new" (Bently, 1997).
Generic codes and conventions are not just established in media products but in products that refer to these products such as critical writings or advertising and marketing material, what Neale referred to as 'the intertextual relay'.
Neale's theory intertextual relay is useful but slightly contentious because it is equally as likely writers/producers intentionally follow conventions to represent their audience.
Evaluate the relevance of Neale's genre theory to long term television drama.
The long term TV drama Homeland Season 1 supports Neale's theory of 'intertextual relay' because it follows a number of crime drama common conventions this makes the drama relevant and entertaining to the audience who have come to expect, and be entertained by, these conventions.
Mise-en-scene follows conventions because props such as guns are used in homeland like in other crime dramas. Another convention of mise-en-scene that is used in crime dramas is the use of darker lighting to provide tension and make the scene more dramatic.
and therefore Neale's theory, because...
This is relevant to the audience because...
Neale's theory is also supported by the fact that homeland evolves through breaking some conventions like...
This is relevant to the audience because...
Levi Strauss' theory
Structuralism is the study of the hidden rules that govern a structure.
Levi-Strauss thought that the human mind could be investigated by studying the fundamental structure underlying myths and fables from around the world (which he saw as one unitary system). He developed the idea of the 'binary opposition'-that the system of myths and fables was ruled by a structure of opposing terms, e.g hot-cold, males-female, culture-nature, raw-cooked, good-bad, madness-sanity.
many writers have analysed media products using the idea of the binary opposition, but seeing the overall system as 'ideology' rather than 'human consciousness'.
Evaluate the relevance of Strauss' narrative theory to long term television drama.
Levi-Strauss' structuralism theory of 'binary oppositions' can be applied to Homeland season 1 in a number of ways and is relevant because binary oppositions were not at play, as Strauss himself summarised, the narrative would be less engaging for the target audience.
The main example of Strauss' binary opposition is the main theme of good versus evil which in this case is America versus the Middle East (America representing the good and the Middle East representing the evil). This made it relevant to the american and British audiences because they could relate to this theme as many terrorist attacks were happening in their country and it was therapeutic to see what was happening in this tv drama because unlike real life which is messy in Homeland it is more straight forward and the target audience could see that their country is good and the other country is evil.
Another binary opposition is madness versus sanity, an example of this is Carrie and her mental illness. This is relevant to the target audience because it makes her more relatable and also puts an exciting twist on the tv drama as it breaks all conventions to have someone in a job like that which such a serious bipolar disorder.
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