Extended Writing

Write a “perfect paragraph” on each of the following questions:

What is the preferred meaning of ‘Humans'?
How is this encoded?
What other readings might this text generate?

Remember to refer IN DETAIL to the text to support your ideas on readings – e.g. what do the characters do/say etc?

http://www.sfgate.com/tv/article/TV-AMC-s-Humans-is-stuck-in-idle-6344725.php

‘The show is OK but rather lifeless, and, no, that isn’t a reference to the Synths. There are moments of actual drama, but they emerge only briefly out of the overall torpor.’ David Wiegand San Francisco Chronicle

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/entertainment/2015-summer-tv-preview/#humans

Washington Post Hank Stuever ‘quite possibly the least original drama on TV…appallingly derivative’

Different readings – Remember to refer IN DETAIL to the text to support your ideas on readings – e.g. what do the characters do/say etc?
An oppositional reading may struggle to find anything new in the story – it‘s simply a re-worked “Frankenstein”
A feminist audience may oppose the representation of Anita and Niska as subservient to the males and feel that despite their self-aware and ‘ironic’ treatment, there is no place for “reinforcement” of these dated ideas in a modern text.
Audiences may be critical of the representations of ethnicity within the text – whilst the cast is ethnically diverse, almost all non-white characters are synths, “serving” the mostly white humans

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