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The Returned  Representation: Genre fluidity - between sci-fi and thriller The subjects covered in this show makes the audience feel uncomfortable, themes of murder, sex, suicide, grief.  Asks many questions in order to intrigue the audience and draw them in.  Hermeneutic codes - withholds answers  Represent a stereotypical white community, foreign country. Allegory of any threats that are seen as 'strange' or 'unnatural' faced in society.

Uses stronger more significant stereotypes to conform gender The use an Asian/Korean model for the main robot to show this contrast in the cast in the show. To make her be conveyed as exotic and different from the norm.  The characters within in the family are very flat and too 'perfect', another stereotypical reception Because this is different from the British Adaptation therefore for a British audience there is less for them to relate to. 

Key theory 10 - Judith Butler - theories of gender performativity  Identity is a performance, and it is contructed through a series of acts and expressions that we perform every day. While there are biological differences dictated by sex, our gender is defined through this series of acts. These may include the ways we walk, talk, dress and so on. Therefore, there is no gender identity behind these expressions of gender. Representation of Synths: The salesman is male - selling a woman - as are the corporate figures who dictate their use. The majority of the ethnic are synths (servants) emphasizing Stuart Hall's notion of the black 'slave' stereotype. This is particularly apt when looking at Anita in the home and Fred when picking fruit (overtones of cotton-picking slaves). Anita conforms to the racial stereotypes identified by Alvarado of "sexualized" and "exotic". The altitudes of males, particularly towards Niska in the brothel - "u

HUMANS: Is a  science fiction  television series that debuted on  Channel 4 . Written by the British team Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley, based on the Swedish science fiction drama  Real Humans , the series explores the themes of  artificial intelligence  and  robotics , focusing on the social, cultural, and psychological impact of the invention of anthropomorphic  robots  called "synths".  Themes: The series explores a number of  science fiction  themes, including  artificial intelligence ,  c onsciousness ,  human-robot interaction ,  super-intelligence ,  mind uploading   and the  laws of robotics . It also explores much darker themes such as postistution, slavery, rape and the take over of technology and superficial intelligence.  Marketing: For one week in May 2015, the series was marketed using a fake shopfront for  Persona Synthetics  on London's  Regent Street , inviting passers-by to create their own synth using interactive screens, [34] [35]  and

Representation:  What is representation? Representation is a re-presentation. By who? And for what purpose? For what function? For what ideal? And who does this impact upon? Both the target audience and the group being represented. What roles do women/sythns adopt in Humans? Mother Caregiver Prostitute  Maid Butler Friend Slave Rebel  Madonna/Whore complex Sigmund freud developed a theory to explain men's anxiety towards women's sexuality, suggesting that men define women into one of two categories: the Madonna (women he admires and respects) and the whore (women he is attracted to and therefore disrespects). The Madonna is typically virtuous, nurturing, saintly and sexually repressed. It can be argued that the Madonna figure in HUMANS is Anita, as she is idolised by everybody else.  The Whore is sensual, sexualised and desirable without purity.  Textual analysis: The brothel scene/closing montage What representations of gender are e

Humans  Key scene - First two minutes of the first episode ('Buying Anita') Genre codes and conventions genre theory    Genre  theory - Steve Neale  genre fluidity  Referential codes relating to numerous sci-fi films, including 2001 and Blade runner Extreme focus on the eye, opening shot was on the eye, eyes determine the difference between the robot or humanity.  camera work  Many low shots, showing her feet and her very feminine shoes.  Close up shots of unzipping, short cut shots of her eyes, to create stigma and prolong the revealing of her.  lighting and colour Very bleak but very clean Use of artificial light, suggests these artificial robots Lack of natural light, comparison to the scene where Anita is so fixated on the moon. Cold, blue colours connoting unnaturalness and creating a creepy atmosphere.   editing - pace, type of edits, continuity Very fast moving scenes - demonstrating how fast things are being developed 

HUMANS - analysis  Allegory:  a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. A metaphor that makes a broader comment on society.  Zeitgeist: The 'spirit of the time' Humans can comment of themes of slavery, and how materialistic the world is today. Needing things that aren't necessary  but just want it anyway.  Exploiting the modern day technology but not knowing the actual worth. Sci-fi genre  Using the concepts of allegory and zeitgeist, media producers can encode a range of ideological perspectives that may not be apparent to all audiences.  Sci-fi Posters:  The Godzilla (1954) itself can be a metaphor for the atomic bomb The United States detonated two  atomic bombs  over the  Japanese  cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. causing massive damage and high death toll Invasion of the saucer man - 1957  conspiracy theories around the supernatural and bel

Theories: Language  1. Semiotics - Roland Barthes  Signs Signify Signifier  2. Narratology - Tzetan Todorov  Narratology  is the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect our perception. Equilibrium  3. Genre theory - Steve Neale  genres  all contain instances of repetition and difference, difference is essential to the to the economy of the  genre . Genre consists of mixing stereotypes and individual conventions  4. Structuralism - Claude Levi- Strauss It asserts that human culture, being the set of learned behaviours and ideas that characterise a society, is just an expression of the underlying structures of the human mind. Binary oppositions Representation  6. Theories of representation - Stuart Hall Stuart Hall  argues that  representation  is the production of the meaning of the concepts in our mind through language. Links between concepts and the language.  7. Theories of identity - David Gauntlet