Topic Revise: Shown where and how?Themes Loneliness

Alienation

Isolation

Solitude

Repression

The American Dream

Contexts The Cold War

9/11/Terrorism

Pandemics

Bioethics

Blaxploitation Film

Woodstock and the 60’s

Germ warfare

Science

Concepts Capitalism

Marxism

Xenophobia

Utopia

Dystopia

‘Otherness’

Darwinism – Survival of the most able to adapt

Creationism – Adam and Eve/Eden

Religion

Representation – Star

Masculinity Physique

Role/Function

Skills/Abilities

Class

Costume/Dress Codes

Occupation

Whiteness

Ethnicity

Stereotypes

Jim Crow – 1890 theatre

Wille Best – blackface,The Minstrel Show

Stephin’ Fetchit, Sleep n’ Eat

WASP

Representation – Femininity

Personal qualities

Associative traits/roles

Occupation

Princess? (Proppian reward?

Stereotypes

Blaxploitation

Place Los Angeles the 60s

Neville’s House

Air-born disease

New York - 2009-2012

Sky-line

Air-born disease

Sleeper cells

GenreFr: Type/Category

Action Film

Sub-genre/s Hybridity

Post-Modernism

IntertextualityNeale: genre relies on intertextual relayHomage

Genre codesMise-en-scene codesGenre conventions

Familiar, expected, repeated or static

Difference, unexpected, different or dynamic

Narrative Structure –paradigms

Tzvetan Todorov

Chronology

Resolution Open/Closed –closure

Roland Barthes Action Codes

Enigma Codes orHematic Codes

Visual or aural codes (semic codes)

Referential Codes

Symbolic Codes

Narrator

Narration - Narrational devicesClaude Lèvi-Strauss

Binary-Oppositions