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TV Crime Drama
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1
Criminal minds has a relatively low budget at
$5 million per episode
$250,000 per episode
$100,000 per episode
$1 million per episode
2
Spy shows were popular due to...
tension between the East and West
Trenchcoats being in fashion
Sherlock Holmes
the rise of technology
3
What reactions can audiences' have to a media text
Negotiated
Yuck
Positive
Negative
4
Dean is an example of what in Broadchurch?
Racial stereotype
Greyworm
Criminals being charming
Archetype
5
Trust in authority, which helps ensure Gramsci’s idea of the media as a tool to ..
make us scared
Comrade
keep us entertained
distract the masses
6
Shows which stretch a crime over a series, focusing on emotional impact and consequences target
an educated/ media savvy audience
Trump
females
action fans
7
Niche shows are shifting the virgin/whore dichotomy- whose theory is this?
Campbell
Woolf
Haskell
Mulvey
8
The 4 personality types are
mainstreamers, aspirers, explorers, resigned
introverts, sociopaths, extroverts, paranoias
introverts, extroverts, neurotics, psychotics
PNO
9
A sense of “hyperreality” for the audience, as we become immersed in the character development
is catharsis
is a result of bingeing content
Mouldy Cheese
can enforce personal relationships loyalty to the franchise
10
Shows can be cancelled if...
They are too shocking and don't have enough repetition
They are too cliche and don't have enough difference
I don't like them
They don't get enough ratings
11
Bingeing content may result in
sore eyes
desensitisation
dissociation from reality
shooting sprees
12
In most mainstream crime shows, criminals are...
Foreigners
Older men
likely to kill anyone
Not known to the victim
13
Niche shows need to stand out because...
the market is oversaturated with similar shows
the makers get bored
audiences are changing and demand to be challenged
celebrities want attention
14
Genres are dynamic, they are now likely to have
less crime
anti-heroes
sub or hybrid genres
females
15
In the 1970s, criminals were often shown as psychologically sick due to...
US health reforms psychiatric patients released into society
Entertainment value
A need to understand
The law
16
The opening shots of Broadchurch show...
The murder weapon
An overhead shot of a boy on a cliff edge
Ellie crying
DC Alec Hardy
17
1 in how many women will experience sexual assault, and by the age of 16?
7
3
10
5
18
early Media theorists proposing the audience were passive when TV was new in what theory
Twostep flow
Hyperdermic syringe
Magic Bullet
Culmination/cultivation
19
Fears have been explored, the genre parodied, in hybrid shows like
American Vandal
Broadchurch
The Blacklist
Brooklyn 99
20
The cultivation/ culmination theory suggests that we are...
are in a cult
desensitised by media
desensitised gradually over time due to exposure to violence
can gain catharsis from violence
21
Audiences are drawn to
1 hour episodes
ad breaks
snackable/biteable shortmedia or long, bingeworthy streaming
weekly episodes
22
Anti-authoratarian themes and fear of corruption, may have had its roots in
Bush's war on Iraq
1974 Watergate scandal
Trump
Dragent
23
Which is not a NZ crime show
The Brokenwood Mysteries
The Blue Rose
Harry
Out of the blue
24
Who was Mark Twitchell
a Dexter copycat killer
a character in Dexter
The president
a theorist
25
How to get away with murder stands out in the genre due to...
the lack of murders
the enigmas in it
it's antihero protagonist
the diversity in the class
26
Elliot (Mr Robot)is an important protagonist to youth due to his...
unreliability as a narrator
mad hacking skills
issues with anxiety and mental health
ethnicity (countertype to typical white)
27
High profile media cases, like the Moors murders add to the audience’s paranoia leading to
catharsis
desensitisation
moral panics
cheese
28
The main audience for Dragnet were...
Men
White middle-upper classes suburban people who owned a TV
Anyone who owned a TV
White lower class urban people who had access to a TV
29
Steve Neale says genre needs what to succeed
a celebrity
originality
art and comemrce
repetition and difference
30
Who says “Film is conservative, I’m sick of it. Television is the new frontier.
Elliot
Jane Campion
Nikki Caro
Peter Jackson
31
the fascination with criminal psychology, which emerged out of the ...psychoanalytical movement
1950s
1960s
1980s
1970s
32
Why was Stalker cancelled
It was too gory
The leads divorced in real life
It became cliche and steteotypical
It had limited scope/ couldn't develop
33
Maximising the characters and the diversity of them and crimes available allows for more..
copycat crimes
chance of personal relationships
cheese
tension in the narrative
34
Mainstream shows tend to show crimes as...
intimate
episodic- one per episode
solved quickly
sensationalised
35
What does Penelope Garcia say to Derek Morgan
I learn something new from you everyday
Stereotype alert
Let's double date
You're so wise
36
Audience’s lower concentration levels/ need for sensationalism and constant entertainment means
crimes must be solved
more crimes are shown
catharsis
tv must be more action filled
37
McLuhan says, we are a
screwed
global network
digital nation
global village
38
The over-exposure to news content, including the increased negativity of it, due to the impact
propaganda
scare-mongering
digital technology
of globalisation
39
In comparison to Dragnet’s blatant patriarchal, authoritarian crime fighters, modern detectives
can be diverse
should be relatable
must eat cheese
can be flawed
40
The mean world syndrome, coined by Gerbner says
over-exposure to negative press will make us paranoid
we will be desensitised
global village
tv will change
41
Mr Robot reflects what
new fears in society
dogs
NSA
hacking is cool
42
Dragnet shows it's victim
in low angles and soft lighting
in low angles and chirascuro lighting
in high angles and soft lighting
in high angles and shadowy lighting
43
Finish: “People love to decry big brother the NSA, the government listening in...
and type in details of those lives everyone…
go on Facebook and post selfies
NSA and Snowden
hand over the most intimate details.. to big data…
44
Who said "genre boundaries are shifting and becoming more permable"
Mulvey
Neil
Abercrombie
Neale
45
Which of these is not one of Young and Rubicam's types of audiences...
Succeeeders
Retreaters
Reformers
Resigned
46
Why was Dragnet appealing to the 1950s audience
People hated other shows
There was nothing else on
Security from McCarthyism, return to gender roles post WW2
People wanted escapism McCarthyism- criminals were often men
47
Which famous event, showed a rise in surveillance culture and distrust of authorities
Oprah
Rodney King
OJ Simpson
Watergate
