Regional identity in TV drama - Our Friends

Regional identity

Task

Create a research pieces on the stereotypes and counter-types of the following regional identities:

• Scottish
• Liverpool
• Newcastle
• Yorkshire
• Birmingham
• Welsh
• Irish
• London
• Essex
• Cornwall/South West

Include examples from TV dramas and post to your blog.

Ethnicity

Class and status

Half-term homework

Tasks:

• Get your blogs FULLY up to date with any missing work
• Complete the following tasks in addition to updating your work
• ALL TASKS must be completed and on your blog by Monday 27th October

Task 1 - ethnicity and class and status in TV drama:
Produce two separate written explorations of ethnicity and class and status in TV drama and post these to your blog.


Your written piece should include, but is not limited to, discussion of:

• Ethnicity and class and status stereotypes and their countertypes
• How ethnicity and class and status is presented in TV drama through the 4 areas of textual analysis
• How ethnicity and class and status link to the other areas of representation (positively and negatively)
• Examples from TV dramas to support your points (including pictures)

Task 2 - ethnicity and class and status clip analysis
Produce two separate written analyses of the following clips.


Class and status:



Ethnicity:

Disability in TV drama - The Street

Disability in TV drama

Task:

Produce a written exploration of disability in TV drama and post this to your blog.

Your written piece should include, but is not limited to, discussion of:

• Disability stereotypes and their countertypes
• How disability is presented in TV drama through the 4 areas of textual analysis
• How disability links to the other 6 areas of representation (positively and negatively)
• Examples from TV dramas to support your points (including pictures)

Secret Diary of a Call Girl - representation of disability

Task

• Analyse this clip looking at how disability is represented
• Embed the clip into your blog along with your written analysis
• Include the 4 areas of textual analysis
• Include the theories of Paul Hunt

Representation of disability

Paul hunt disability from Sarah Ghost

The Inbetweeners - disability in media

• Why is the clip funny?
• How is the disabled girl being represented?
• Are we meant to laugh at the disabled person?
• Are they the 'butt' of the joke?
• How do you think disabled people respond to this?
• Are we as a society cultivated to think we should pity the disabled?