Les Revenants: Released 26th November 2012 on Canal+ in France 9th June 2013 on Channel 4 in the UK 2 series, 8 episodes each Based on the French film 'They Come Back' (Les Revenants) (dir. Robin Campillo 2004) Created by Fabrice Gobert Genre Hybridity: Horror Supernatural Drama Avant-garde (unconventional/atypical) Zombie (could be a subgenre of horror) Could be a 'French' genre because it relatable to French audiences and French industries are stereotypically quite experimental and atypical with what they create. Cult TV A cult is a small group of fans who are extremely passionate about the text. Cult fanbases are usually emotionally attached fans identifying themselves as members of a community. Less mainstream but has a small but dedicated fanbase. - Links to Henry Jenkins theory of Fandoms 'Les Revenants' is a Cult TV program which is not that popular but the small audience that it does reach is very passionate. Steve Ne...
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The Returned - Les Revenants Sci-fi/ horror genre (genre paradigms) - intertextual references to horror films (poster of the Exorcist). sci-fi because of the music. The sci-fi genre provides a metaphor for our actual lives. Target Older people/parents - they would be effected emotionally because of the topics of loosing children etc. Representation of teenagers (quite stereotypically). Largely white representation - middle class. Hermeneutic Codes - creates questions for the audience. most of the story is withheld from the audience to draw you in.
Real Humans: Swedish Original In the Swedish original it seems that the robots harm humans a lot more, additionally, it is a lot easier to tell humans apart from the robots in the original. Less representation of ethnicity, Swedish people stereotypically have blond hair and blue eyes making the Korean robot Anita stand out much more. Revealed what happens when a robot 'dies'. We as British people relate more with the British version. Robots are more aggressors in the Swedish version - there is also the 'real humans' party.
The Specialised Television Industry: Television has changed considerably since the advent of digital technology in terms of its production, distribution and consumption. It has become increasingly global, rather than a national industry and has become increasingly commercial, with public service broadcasting forced to adapt its structure, role and function. International co-production is growing and broadcasters such as HBO have achieved global success. Broadcasters are now 'narrowcasters', with multiple channels targeting different (sometimes niche) audiences. Audiences consume television texts in a variety of ways as the industry has increased portability via new platforms (tablet, mobile phone) and patterns of consumption have changed alongside this (the box-set and binge watching, on demand and catch up, Netflix, Amazon etc). Interactive social media channels such as youtube have increased accessibility for the 'prosumer' audience, and social media and viral...
Humans/Channel 4 Fact file Ideological Perspectives Funding Associated Channels Scheduling Notable Releases Ownership Ideological Perspectives Channel 4 was set up with a unique model as a ‘publisher-broadcaster’, meaning that we do not have any in-house production, but instead commission content from production companies throughout the UK. We are a self-sufficient business that reinvests all profits back into programmes, at zero cost to the taxpayer. A ‘Robin Hood’ model of cross-funding means programmes that make money pay for others that are key to delivering our remit but that are loss-making e.g. News and Current Affairs. Our twin goals as a content provider and business are to fulfil our remit and to be commercially self-sufficient. "The public service remit for Channel 4 is the provision of a broad range of high quality and diverse programming which, in particular: demonstrates innovation, experiment and creativity in the form and content of programm...
Postmodernism Hyperreality is the idea that the simulation is much more real to us than reality. An example of this would be Instagram - stuff we see on there seems real to us but isn't. Humans and Simulacra? The synths themselves may be seen as simulacra - copies of "perfect humans" which do not really exist. The parallel world to our own is a hyperreality - it is the present or near future re-presented from a mediated perspective. Consider how this is constructed. It may be argued that the series itself is a comment on the attractions of the hyperreal over the real -e.g Joe's sexual attraction to Anita. Hyperreality: In postmodern culture the boundaries between the 'real' world and the world of the media have collapsed and that it is no longer possible to distinguish between what is reality and what is simulation. In fact, it really doesn't matter which is which. Therefore, in this postmodern age of simulacra, audiences are constantly bombarde...
