There will be two tutorials to do with your essay plans. You will need two good ideas for your essay and what you want to research for it. You need to combine them in your essay.
You should focus your essay on two topics you like, and something you think you'll be good at.
Construct questions from your reading from the debates that are raised.
Do not do the same debates in your essay that you've done from your critical log.
Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Cult
- Introduced a the prospect of a new world in the living room
- Opportunity to explore contrasts
- A sense of competition was introduced between channels
- Bigger budgets meant biggest audience
- Promises a cinematic spectacle
Cult Shows:
- Generic convention cross overs, appealing to a wider audiences
- Intertextual references in the shows
- Production of an extended universe.
Dr Who - Cult Success
- Time travel narrative play on nostalgia for the viewer as well as prospects for the future
- It has a multi-generational appeal and has it's own spin-off shows e.g. Torchwood and Sarah Jane adventures which can make a wider audience invest in the show.
Black Mirror
It doesn't have positive narratives, rather they are syndical and critical commentaries on critical issues is contemporary society.
"The fan audience is valuable to a network ... attempting to break into an increasingly competitive environment, because of the loyalty of fan viewers. A consequence, Matt Hills argues in 1990s 'fandom has begun to furnish a model of dedicated and loyal consumption which does, in point of face, appeal to television producers and schedulers within a fragmented multi-channel environment."
- Johnson, C. (2005)
Brett Mills, sitcoms
Do background readings, specific argument readings and particular TV shows
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