Since beginning this class I’ve
definitely gained some extra perspective and awareness about the intricacies
that can be contained within movies and television. I find myself more often
wondering at the choices that writers, directors, and actors consciously make
to bring a story to life for their audience.
Despite being a busy and sleep-deprived college student I almost always
find some time to sit down to watch some Netflix or maybe even some good-old
broadcast television and now I have the added benefit of some tools to reach a
better understanding of the media I enjoy.
The main thing I’ve been enjoying
watching this week is Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, as Netflix just added the
3rd season. I love mysteries and watching a spunky Australian
flapper solve murders while being fabulous and throwing out quips is definitely
my idea of a good time. What I have mostly noticed from watching this show is it
enjoys using some intertextuality in whatever the crime of the week happens to
be. One episode features a costume party where a man dressed as the big bad
wolf leads a girl dressed as red riding hood away from the party so he can
kidnap her.
The other television show I’ve been
watching this week is Once Upon a Time and I just started the newest season. I’ve
been trying to catch up with my mom because we always enjoy talking about the
drama (and more frequently the ridiculous plot twists) that occurs each week.
Not only is this show saturated with intertextuality as we discussed in class
but I now find myself paying more attention to the hierarchical relationships
between the characters using Marxist analysis. The show often has characters
change dramatically and a good example of this is Regina who has gone from
basically being a dictator who is very invested in the towns hierarchy to
becoming more of an egalitarian.
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