'Faulty Towers' and 'The Bash Street Kids' essay
Both texts serve the purpose of entertaining its audience offering escapism. Basil Faulty promotes his hegemonic ideoligies of the Germans reflecting a sub-division of British society in order to create humour, his charcter and the show in general plays on sterotypes in order to promote prejudices but with a subtle response. One interpretation of text 1 is that it makes a mockery out of the war and disrepects those that fought, however it's a piece of satire mocking the higher authorities underlining the naievty of war but adding comic elements in order to release audiences tension. '
The Bash Street kids' plays on typical comic book conventions of male friends seduced by a female but they play games with her. The girl conforms to the theory of Laura Mulvey as she is a passive female sub-ordinate to the male however the 'kids...' torment rather than seduce the girl indicating that she does not have qualities of to-be-looked-at-ness. The comic strip although targted at young children raises issues about the hegemonic ideologies towards gender children are being presented to in media. Increasingly in contemporary society women are being viewed equally to males however in this instance the males overrule the female reflecting a division in gender.
Text 1 offers alternative interpretations towards the representation of ethnic minorities in the media. In the short extract a black character is represented and he plays the role of 'Doctor'. In this way text 1 reflects the push for equality in society in the late 70s/early 80s and is in favour of offering audiences more than the traditional white charatcer. In this way text 1 can be considered socially respondent to the times as the civil rights movement was high during the time of the series and the BBC serves the purpose of being a public broadcaster and representing all cultures of society. On the contrary, 'Bash...' represent the tradtional white, male friends. Similar to the representation of women it is ironic that no ethinc minority is represented because we increasingly live in a society of social equality across all spectrums.
The Bash Street kids' plays on typical comic book conventions of male friends seduced by a female but they play games with her. The girl conforms to the theory of Laura Mulvey as she is a passive female sub-ordinate to the male however the 'kids...' torment rather than seduce the girl indicating that she does not have qualities of to-be-looked-at-ness. The comic strip although targted at young children raises issues about the hegemonic ideologies towards gender children are being presented to in media. Increasingly in contemporary society women are being viewed equally to males however in this instance the males overrule the female reflecting a division in gender.
Text 1 offers alternative interpretations towards the representation of ethnic minorities in the media. In the short extract a black character is represented and he plays the role of 'Doctor'. In this way text 1 reflects the push for equality in society in the late 70s/early 80s and is in favour of offering audiences more than the traditional white charatcer. In this way text 1 can be considered socially respondent to the times as the civil rights movement was high during the time of the series and the BBC serves the purpose of being a public broadcaster and representing all cultures of society. On the contrary, 'Bash...' represent the tradtional white, male friends. Similar to the representation of women it is ironic that no ethinc minority is represented because we increasingly live in a society of social equality across all spectrums.
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