BFI notes

1.    Lunt, P., & Livingstone, S. (2012). Media Regulation: Governance and the Interests of Citizens and Consumers. doi:10.4135/9781446250884-  Media regulation by Lunt and Livingstone-https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=zAdEAgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT19&dq=lunt+and+livingstone+media+regualtion&ots=unK3Z0Qqad&sig=_tpYBCYBynARSUgqqxvLanzH5Uw#v=onepage&q&f=false

• ·         Time and time again the view was expressed that the real problems of society(crime, immigration, corruption) weren’t being tackled while faceless bureaucrats developed elaborate systems of rules to constraint or intrude on the freedoms of the majority and while people themselves had little or no influence on how regulation was formed or shaped, as fairly passive recipients 

1. Vaage, M. B. (2016). The antihero in American television. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. - quotes below

• traditional hero - The idea of a traditional hero is what we have been fed for years and years and it's usually someone in a cape or someone who saves the damsel in distress, but Walter White is seen as a hero but not a 'traditional hero'. In his own way he makes the audience feel sympathetic for him and makes them route for him even though whats hes doing is morally wrong
• Walter white and serial killer Dexter are not morally good- This does address the issue of the protagonists in TV crime dramas being morally wrong and does point out that even though we know they are wrong we still end up supporting them (can be linked to Levi Strauss's binary oppositions).
• the notion of identification entails that the spectator is under some kind of illusion where she looses herself in the character and the mistakes the characters experiences for her own
• smith suggests that iconography, music and the start system are among the factors that influence our moral evaluation 
• "quality TV has become a genre in itself"
• Does watching Dexter entail that the spectator morally evaluates it's 
• Eaton & Carolls theory - research 

1. Blevins, J., & Wood, D. (2015). The methods of Breaking bad: Essays on narrative, character and ethics. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company,.  This can be linked to another social issue that Breaking Bad raises - masculinity and feminism 

• Walter is a father. husband and school teacher who like the waning reign of the symbolic father, suffers many sleights against his masculinity from his family, his students, his doctor and his boss at the car wash- This raises another social issue in Breaking Bad about how men are loosing there masculinity and will do anything to put it right and preform and adapt themselves to meet social expectations of them
• for Walter it is about the danger, the excess danger induced by the crisis in his masculine identity- 

1. Hughes, J., Critcher, C., Rohloff, A., & Petley, J. (2013). Moral Panics in the Contemporary World. Bloomsbury Academic.

• in early content analysis Dominick (1973) reported that violent crimes (e.g., murder, assault, etc) accounted for 60% of the crimes portrayed on prime time television during one weeks worth of programming.
• A final characteristic associated with media portrayals of crime concerns depictions of race and ethnicity.  

Journals

1. Oliver, M. B. (1994). Portrayals of crime, race, and aggression in “reality‐based” police shows: A content analysis. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 38(2), 179-192. doi:10.1080/08838159409364255

• The content of analysis of "reality based" police programmes suggests several conclusions
• first these programmes not only strongly over-represent violent crime, but also over-represent the percentage of crimes that are cleared or solved by law 
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