Context:
- Social - gender roles, racial and ethnic inequalities, social attitudes to sexualities
- Cultural - TV drama in reflecting culture, reinterpreting and reinforcing national cultural identities
- Historical / Political - knowledge and understanding of the influence of historical events
Theoretical Framework:
- Audience - national/international representations, archetypal themes (original representations), differentiation in representations, how it targets different audiences
- Media Language - conventional characteristics, how it serves to decrease differentiation
Notes:
- cultural amnesia
- the historical trauma of German division and reunification
- difficulties faced by Germany and its people
- political and military tensions
Narratology in Deutschland 83':
- initial equilibrium consists of Martin's girlfriend, stable job and good family life
- disruption involves the US president Ronald Reagan's escalation of the Cold War
- theory limits its effectiveness in understanding complexing narratives
- not designed to explain serial narratives like long-term dramas where climax and resolution are necessarily delayed
- does not help to understand media television's tendency towards segmentation rather than linearity (multiple segmented storylines of some long-term dramas)
- does not help to understand narrative strands that do not add to the narrative drive towards resolution, but establish characterisation, spirals out from the main linear narrative or creates cliffhangers
Notes:
- Lenora's equilibrium is Martin's disruption
- Martin is seen as powerful in his job as a border patrol officer as he is seen from a low camera angle facing up to him and a high camera angle whilst he is looking down on others
- Martin was laughing, having fun, is highly respected, was able to visit family and friends regularly with his life in the east
- during the disruption of ep.1 the atmosphere appears to feel sinister and nerve-racking (seen in the choice of music, colour tones and expressions of the characters)
- the ending does not properly provide an equilibrium again as the narrative theory does not fully apply (equilibrium is far away)
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