Life on Mars intro revision

On which TV channel was Life on Mars first broadcast?

• Sky One

• BBC One

• ITV1

• Dave

Which company produced Life on Mars?

• Marvel Studios

• Kudos Film

• Ubisoft

• Sixteen Films

Which theorist coined the term 'binary opposites'?

• Steve Neale

• Roland Barthes

• David Gauntlett

• Claude Levi-Strauss

Life on Mars is a hybrid of which two genres?

• crime and period drama

• crime and sci fi

• crime and romance

• crime and fantasy

Which 1970s TV cop drama has most influenced Life on Mars?

• Magnum PI

• The Sweeney

• Z cars

• Dixon of Dock Green

Which of these adjectives best describes the representation of Gene Hunt?

• ambitious

• loyal

• misogynistic

• thorough

Whose theory challenges the idea of patriarchal oppression?

• Liesbet Van Zoonen

• bell hooks

• Steve Neale

• David Gauntlett

Why might audiences identify with Sam Tyler?

• They laugh with him at the lack of technology in the 1970s

• Because he is Northern

• They like the actor who plays him

• They like police dramas

Which of these is a key word of Steve Neale's theory?

• difference

• distribution

• regulation

• profit

What do 'hegemonies' define?

• what we think is natural, normal and taken for granted

• how media products are regulated

• how opposites are used to create meanings

• what we think about stereotypes