Josh May GCSE Blog 2017

How do gender Representations reflect the social, cultural, Historical contexts of the time with both set products?   Gender representations reflect the social context of the time by the way the characters are represented in Avengers. Emma is a empowered woman this reflects back to the equal pay act where women would earn the same amount as men and be seen as a equal in the workplace. Steed also represents as a strong man doing his part against the Russians this was a big part of the social contexts. But Emma and Steed are both white and heterosexual this is Historical context of the time as being homosexual was seen as an illness and was hidden from Tv and coloured people wore still very segregated from everyday white society whereas in cuffs the two main characters are Jake a homosexual white male and Ryan a black heterosexual single father this is a cultural context as in the time of this set product (2013) Gay marriage was legalised. Jo Moffatt is a female very high u...

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Social, Historical, cultural contexts 1960s and            The Avengers The Avengers as a distinctive generic identify that is rooted in British popular culture Television drew upon this tradition while at the same time responding to the social and cultural changes of the 1960s Sub-genre-Spy-Thriller           Series 4 episode 1          The town of no return Brief summary Steed and Emma, are on the trail of several murdered agents. They visit little bazeley by the sea, a town that strangers rarely leave alive- and discovered it is being secretly infiltrated by enemy agents The swinging sixties! London had transformed from the bleak, conservative city, only just beginning to forget the troubles of the second world war, into the capital of the world, full of Freedom, hope and promise         Young ...

                           Genres               Crime dramas and sub Genres Sub-Genre -within the overall genre of television and crime drama there will be groups of shows that share similar conventions, for example detective-led dramas. These are sub genres Genre variation- differences of genre and how media language illustrates this. How much a film subverts or conforms the conventions and stereotypes of a genre   Genera repetition - repeating codes and conforms to the genre Hybridity -   is a genre in fiction that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres i.e rom-com Intersexuality - the process of creating references to any kind of media text via another media text       Crime- Cuffs Horror- sinister Romantic- Comed...

                                                 OFCOM=    Office of communications when David Cameron became prime minister  of the 2010 UK conservative government , the Public Bodies Act 2011 did remove and change many of the things Ofcom has to do, although it did not reduce Ofcom's remit. On 1 October 2011, Ofcom took over responsibility for regulating the postal services industry from the Postal Services Commission (Postcomm). In April 2015, Ofcom announced that, as of 1 July, phone companies will have to provide customers with a set charge for the cost of calling numbers starting 084, 087 and 09. and made sure these charges must be printed in each customer's contract and bills. The change...

P ublic service broadcasting Public Service Broadcasters generally transmit programming that aims to improve society by informing viewers   PSB also strive to entertain their viewers PBS=BBC Remit- Responsibility of a programme BBC Remit- to enrich people’s lives with programmes and services that inform educate entertain To reflect the UK its culture and values to the world Funding 75% of the BBC funding comes from the licence fee (currently costs £145 for colour and £49.50 for a black and white TV licence.) The remaining income comes from commercial Activities such as Worldwide sales of its programs Publications such as radio times, top gear, good food, Etc                              Channel 4 Channel 4 was set up after a 1977 government report argued that television was not meeting the needs of a divers...