Life on Mars
Genre- Hybrid genre> Crime and Sci-fi Genre- crime and sci-fi Conventions- murders/ arresting/ investigation Unconventional- time traveling Life on Mars has a very strong regional branding, a lots of people and places from Manchester and other northern parts of the country. The characters, style and setting reflects the location and the time its set- 1970s. Examples would be the vintage cars and costumes, technology is still new (no telephones, restricted tv times etc). The series have two genres combined together, which gives the opportunity to attract more audiences with different interest. This links to Neale's genre theory, which suggests that genres change, develop and vary as they borrow from and overlap with another. The crime genre elements are there- murders, police, investigations etc, we can see sci-fi genre elements too- time traveling. Enigma codes- time traveling, development of the female character (police woman in the 1970s) Narrative- By the end of the episo