Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Home learning Lesson 2: Crime / Detective / Police drama

You will examine and compare the way the "law" is represented in different dramas. Issues of representation to analyse: authority, gender, race as well as whether the representations are sympathetic, realistic etc... How do the producers position the audience in relation to the detectives / officers?

TASK: Write a comparative essay analysing the representations of the ‘law’ in the 2 extracts from The Wire and A Touch of Frost.
Post on your blog with screengrabs preferably + bring a hard copy (minus pictures!) to hand in.

Intro and credits, The Wire, series 1, episode 1.


Frost, Series finale, "If dogs run free".

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