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A level Media: Humans /The Returned: Contexts - Coggle Diagram
A level Media: Humans /The Returned: Contexts
Historical Fear
Humans: Sc-fi gerne to change to reflect historical contexts e.g. societal fears.
Humans reflects the modern fear that society has about artificial intelligence
Humans is reflective of typical Sci -fi codes and conventions in many ways
Zombie supernatural
The Returned reflects the recent popularity of programmes and films that fall under supernatural/zombie genres
However The Returned fails to reflect the historical contextual conventions of the zombie/supernatural genre
The Returned is reflective of the current trend foreign language programming being broadcast in the UK Particularly dramas.
Social contexts
Humans seems to reflect relevant social issues such relevant social issues such as women going to work juggling work and childcare
A current issues such as British society is that there has been rises in Xenophobia (discrimination against foreign people ) humans
Society and the media tends to 'other' people who are different
some people believe wrongly that anyone who is 'foreign' may also be dangerous.
Perhaps Humans reflects the fear that anyone who is different, may be 'plotting' and intent on 'mutiny' against mainstream society
The returned also reflects social divisions that are common in countries like France, Britain etc.
There is a suggestion that The returned reflects political contexts in France of immigration/asylum seekers and the way they were treated by French society
allegory - is a story that is designed to educational message
in Calais, France camp where asylum seekers towns and tents, kept separate from the rest of the country.
The writers of the show felt they immigrants were treated was dehumanising and wanted to draw people's attention to the way they were segregated destroying families
Another social, cultural and political issues affecting is in humans rights, and what happens when these are taken away or violated in some way.
Humans creates a narrative centred around having synths less power & rights than the human characters. They are seen as proper