Media Series - TV
Hybridity and intertextuality


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EDUQUAS

Identify any intertextual elements within Episode 1 of “Humans”. Look at these elements and consider how they work in terms of media language (creating meaning), genre and audiences.


  • Elster – Hitchcockian reference to “Vertigo” in which Gavin Elster “creates” the perfect woman to serve his own ends
  • “The Stepford Wives”– domestic, beautiful, subservient female robots replace real women (male conspiracy)
  • “AI” – Odi is treated like a son by George Millican. Odi (ODI) references the Open Data Institute founded by Tim Berners-Lee
  • “Blade Runner” – synths becoming sentient – conscious. Niska is reminiscent of Pris – the “basic pleasure model”
  • ‘Asimov blocks’ in their programs ( Laws of Robotics outlined e.g. in “I, Robot”)
  • Remake of “Real Humans”
  • Hawkins family – close to Stephen Hawking

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