Across
- 3. Campbell’s hero’s journey is a theory that is best applied to April, but can also be seen as relevant to Tanya, Charlie, Matteusz, Ram and Miss Quill too. As he argued this concept is universal across all cultures and time periods it is also known as the ---.
- 4. Levi-Strauss argues that all dramas are based around the conflicts that --- opposites create
- 6. The appearance of the Doctor, and the Coal Hill school (now Academy) setting, are examples of ---, when the preferred reading (Stuart Hall!) of one text requires knowledge of detail from another!
- 10. Vladimir … studied fairy tales and concluded that the same basic character types were universal in fiction/drama
- 13. Ep3 of Class has an unresolved --- ending designed to motivate the audience to be eager to see how this plotline plays out. The ‘who shot JR’ example from 1981’s Dallas is a classic example, and also illustrates how radically digitisation has caused disruption of both distribution and consumption of TV series.
- 14. Another term for the character role of hero
- 15. The hero and villain are two simple examples of the character --- that one theory argues are universal to all narratives
- 16. He argued that narratives have 5 basic stages
- 17. Is April really a heroic feminist representation? As well as the hero (and partly villain!), she could be argued to also fulfil another character role, that of the prize, aka --- (though an actual prince, Charlie, has another ‘prize’ with his box of souls!)
Down
- 1. A type of narrative that in TV terms follows multiple characters and plays out over a whole season or longer
- 2. April may well be positioned as the main hero, but her violent actions towards her father, tied to her link to Coranikus, also make her partly the ---!
- 5. While Class episodes are also self-contained, there is a clear season --- which centres on the shared heart between April and Corinakus
- 7. In this classic narrative theory, all dramas begin with ---, but by the end there is a new ---.
- 8. The archetype of this opening style is the 1960 Hitchcock horror “Psycho”, the idea being that we eventually settle on 1 person or house after some ELS/ES; the following events ‘could happen to anyone’.
- 9. At the end of ep3 we see Coranikus raise his sword-wielding arms; in Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart (ep4) we see April in exactly the same pose – so this shot from ep3 --- the events of ep4!
- 11. When a TV or film series is restarted, typically with a new cast – as was the case with Dr Who after a 9-year gap (1996-2005).
- 12. Is the Dr in the 1963 ep1 hero or villain? Is April hero or villain? To some extent, both are highly ambiguous, or, to use the semiotic term (the opposite of anchorage, where enough exposition or multiple signifiers are provided), ---. In such cases the preferred reading is open to a contested reading!