The series of Lost targets a wide mainstream audience. The director JJ Abrams used carefully constructed conventions to attract a variety of passive and active readers, to make the programme a success.
The use of an ensemble cast enables readers to relate to the text as it has been encoded that a range of readers would have someone within the cast they are able to relate to. There is a variety of nationalities, race', ages, genders and stereotypical representations present within the text. A difference in nationality is specifically shown when the Korean female ' Sun' and the White American ' Kate'. There is a strong language barrier between them as they both speak different languages, which shows elements of the Binary Opposition Narrative theory; as both characters have been forced together due to the situation they are currently in. Also there are two stereotypical representations shown with the two women. Kate is shown to be half naked, exposing most of her body while Sun is completely covered up. This shows the difference in their ethnicities and how they have been socialised to act in a certain way. This evidently has been constructed by JJ Abrams to focus on a variety of ethnicities, to enable people nationally relate themselves to a specific character.
The use of an ensemble cast enables readers to relate to the text as it has been encoded that a range of readers would have someone within the cast they are able to relate to. There is a variety of nationalities, race', ages, genders and stereotypical representations present within the text. A difference in nationality is specifically shown when the Korean female ' Sun' and the White American ' Kate'. There is a strong language barrier between them as they both speak different languages, which shows elements of the Binary Opposition Narrative theory; as both characters have been forced together due to the situation they are currently in. Also there are two stereotypical representations shown with the two women. Kate is shown to be half naked, exposing most of her body while Sun is completely covered up. This shows the difference in their ethnicities and how they have been socialised to act in a certain way. This evidently has been constructed by JJ Abrams to focus on a variety of ethnicities, to enable people nationally relate themselves to a specific character.
No comments:
Post a Comment