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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.
The 'showrunner' for all six seasons of Peaky Blinders was __.
Steven Knight
In the USA, after initial distribution by the Weinstein Company and Endemol, Peaky Blinders was purchased by __ in 2014 for worldwide distribution.
Netflix
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
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
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
Meanings are established through __ with numerous references to the Western genre in the first 15 minutes of the opening episode.
Intertextuality
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
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
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
As befits a long-form drama, almost every character has their own __.
Narrative Arc
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
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
Knight’s intentional ‘mythologising’ of industrial communities, however criminal, has resulted in a fresh sense of civic __ in Birmingham.
Pride
__ asserts that audiences actively borrow from media texts to help construct their identity: ‘a narrative of the self’.
David Gauntlett
Butler asserts that gender is not a fixed biologically determined characteristic, but rather a __.
Fluid Social Construct
Peaky Blinders is a is a co-production between Caryn Mandabach productions, __, (both independent) and Yorkshire Screen Fund.
Tiger Aspect
Peaky Blinders would be good example of __ commitment to ‘telling local stories on a global platform’.
Netflix
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
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
__ is deeply personal and creative relationship with media products as Jenkins asserts.
Fandom