Marxism is the hierarchical and materialistic approach in figuring out who in society and in general groups has more power and who plays what role. When looking into media through a marxist point-of-view, you want to really focus on the characters, rather than the background, which would be under semiotics. You want to study how each individual acts in their role and how they inteeract with other characters. When looking into marxism, you want to catagorize every indivual character into their own elemnt in the story.
Their are four main categpries to put each person in, Heirachal elitist, egalitarian, competitive individualist and fatalist. In an example, there is always a hierarchical elitist in any TV show group, such as Cory from Boy Meets World. After the hierarchical elitist, you start going down the, as you might want to visualize it, a pyramid of roles the just keeps going down to the bottom of the food chain. After the hierarchical elitist, you have your egalitarian person/people, which are the ones who are the ones who are the in-betweeners and the peace keeps. Next, you have your competitive individualist, who is the one, or maybe even two people in the group who always butt heads and/or the person who is trying to do better than the other. Lastly, you have your fatalist, who basically feel that everything is going to end up in disaster. On the side, you can always have various other categories, such as who is the individualist and who is the voice of reasoning.
All-in-all, analyzing the media with a Marxist point of view is just studying the individual and how the group functions through those individual's characteristics. You can also try to justify this through studying real-life groups and compare and contrast between reality and TV.
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