THE KILLING - LESSON 4: REPRESENTATION

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DOMINANT IDEOLOGIES IN THE KILLING:
//Opening Scene - typically female victim wearing very little clothing.
//Sarah Lund in a male pyjama top but still quite revealing.
//Clearly male-dominated workforce.
//Sarah Lund appears to 'put up' with a lot of sexual innuendos and banter at work.
//Both candidates for the mayoral position are men, one of which is having an affair with his female assistant, presenting her as only an object for sex while he is clearly still hung up on his wife.
//It is the father that goes out to search for Nana and not the mother, who stays to take care of the children. This puts the father in a position of power while on the phone ot the mother at the crime scene, because he is in the action and can see what's going on, whereas she is helpless at home.

DOMINANT IDEOLOGIES CHALLENGED IN THE KILLING:
//Sarah Lund walks through the rain and doesn't seem to care about her appearance.
//She demonstrates both typically male and female characteristics, particularly due to her line of work, where she has to be tough and quick witted in order to gain rapport in a male-dominated industry.
//While working alongside men, she clearly holds her own and shows competence when paralleled with the man she is working with, who just wants to get back and goof around all day. 
//She challenges the stereotypes of mothers in the workforce in that she is good at her job and family is not at the forefront of her storyline and we primarily see her character development through her professional achievements.

BARTHES SEMIOLOGY:

 TODOROV NARRATOLOGY:

 NEALE GENRE THEORY:

 STRAUSS BINARY OPPOSITION:

 BAUDRILLARD POSTMODERNISM:

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