Introduction to case study brainstorming idea: Analyze the representation of criminality in the media.
- Platforms: Broadcast, Print, E-media
- Broadcast Text Types: Scarface, Goodfellas, American Gangster & Game Over: The Alpo Story.
- E-Media Text Types: Wikipedia pages on Big Meech, Larry Hoover and Frank Lucas all real life criminals who have been referenced in the media. Also comupter games such as The Godfather, Scarface, Warriors and Mob City.
- Print Text Types: newspaper (the sun, metro, mirror etc.)articles on crime and criminals
- Wider contexts:
- Timeframes: Comparison of two films one old and one contemporary for example scarface and law abiding citizen.
- Theoretical findings: Feminism because women are rarely shown in criminal representations in the media. Marxism because of the moral outcome in the majority of crime stories/films/other results the same. Postmodern because the films question the so called truths of who in soceity are actually the heroes and villains.
- Media Issues and debates: That the films/tv drama and fictional portrayal of crime inspires and influences society to act in a more aggressive manor. Enforces the macho male image problematic to society. The arguement that UK imitates the USA.
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