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Flashcards reviewing key concepts from A Level Media Studies notes on Peaky Blinders.

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Peaky Blinders is best described as a __.

A hybrid-genre, long form TV drama that combines gangster, Western, and historical drama elements.

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The 'showrunner' for all six seasons of Peaky Blinders was __.

Steven Knight

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In the USA, after initial distribution by the Weinstein Company and Endemol, Peaky Blinders was purchased by __ in 2014 for worldwide distribution.

Netflix

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Peaky Blinders could be classed as a cross-genre or hybrid long form television drama, It has many characteristics of the __ subgenre.

Gangster, Western, Historical Drama

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One of the gangster conventions that Peaky Blinders uses is __ – it doesn’t matter who the enemy is, the Law or other gangs, the Shelbys are devoted to protecting and securing their family.

Family Loyalty

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In Peaky Blinders, __ is the antagonist in the first season, whose ride through Birmingham, righteous sermon to the police and his torture of Arthur.

Campbell

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Meanings are established through __ with numerous references to the Western genre in the first 15 minutes of the opening episode.

Intertextuality

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Producer Laurie Borg said the show was a conceived as __ showing a completely different world existing in the same historical period.

the anti-Downton Abbey

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Consider the opening sequence as Tommy rides through Small Heath – __ iconography, (tall man on a horse) is used to establish Tommy’s reputation and the environment is full of ‘vigour’.

Western

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The use of __ establishes a modern feel to a period drama as Knight has said he wanted to ‘emphasise the idea of people in the period with modern emotions, aspirations and expressions’.

Punk and rock songs

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As befits a long-form drama, almost every character has their own __.

Narrative Arc

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Gangster films and historical dramas have a recognisable array of conventions that produce pleasure. These include narrative ingredients like __.

Anti-heroes, scenes of suspense and violence

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Offering a darker and less upper-class view of British history between the world wars can be seen as __ – a deliberate attempt to excavate alternative versions of a historical period.

Historical Revisionism

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Knight’s intentional ‘mythologising’ of industrial communities, however criminal, has resulted in a fresh sense of civic __ in Birmingham.

Pride

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__ asserts that audiences actively borrow from media texts to help construct their identity: ‘a narrative of the self’.

David Gauntlett

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Butler asserts that gender is not a fixed biologically determined characteristic, but rather a __.

Fluid Social Construct

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Peaky Blinders is a is a co-production between Caryn Mandabach productions, __, (both independent) and Yorkshire Screen Fund.

Tiger Aspect

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Peaky Blinders would be good example of __ commitment to ‘telling local stories on a global platform’.

Netflix

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One of __ key ideas is that cultural industries are different to other manufacturers and media texts are often re-used rather than wearing out.

Hesmondhalgh

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Hall asserts that individual audience members will interpret media texts in different ways according to their established values and beliefs, this is called __.

Reception Theory

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__ is deeply personal and creative relationship with media products as Jenkins asserts.

Fandom