Doctor who-Language and representation

 1) Choose three key moments in the episode and write an NCIS analysis for those clips. You can use your notes from the screening in class. Make specific, detailed references using media terminology (e.g. media language - camera shots, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, mise-en-scene etc.)

An Unearthly Child scene analysis

Narrative: Teachers were trying to establish where susan lives.Teachers followed Susan home to the junkyard.The teachers met her 'grandfather'.Teachers recognise Susans voice from tardis , Ian and the Doctor get into a grapple .Find Susan in tardis , Doctor says he has to transport them ,ian presses random buttons tardis activates and they are sent to a distant universe.

Character: Police Officer, Susan ,Ian ,Barbara, Doctor.

Iconography: Tardis, radio player,diegetic sounds is.


2) How does Todorov's theory of equilibrium apply to An Unearthly Child? Try and use the expanded version of Todorov's theory: Equilibrium - Disruption - Recognition - Reparation - New equilibrium.
Equilibrium-Teachers discussing Susans welfare in school . Susan is attending school.

Disruption-Barbara seeks advice from Ian concerned with Susans welfare , follow her to junkyard.

Recognition-Teachers confront the Doctor about Susan.

Reparation-Doctor forces teachers to join them and stop them from exposing them.

New Equilibrium-All characters have time -travelled to other worlds.
3) Applying Propp's character theory, what character roles do each of the main characters in An Unearthly Child fit into? Alternatively, you may wish to discuss how characters do not fit Propp's character types.Princess, villian, donor ,false hero,dispatcher,helper,hero

4) What enigma and action codes (Barthes) can you find in An Unearthly Child? Make specific, detailed reference to the text using media terminology (e.g. media language - camera shots, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, mise-en-scene etc.)

5) What examples of binary opposition (Levi-Strauss) can you find in An Unearthly Child? How do these create narrative or drama for the audience? 

The junkyard and Tardis is light vs dark 

human vs alien- susan ,doctor 

good vs evil- doctor is evil in a way as he tried to hide susan from teachers


Representations

1) What stereotypes of men are reinforced and subverted in Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child? How?
The grandfather is a patriarch as he is dominant as he strict however Ian is subverted as he is caring for susan.
2) What stereotypes of women/girls are reinforced and subverted in Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child? How?Barbara is seen as a patriach as she is caring and considered about susan . However susan is atypical as she travels around space which is unusual for a normal girl.

3) What are common media stereotypes of young people and old people? Do any of the characters or scenarios reinforce or subvert these conventional stereotypes (consider this was 1963)? Has this changed in more recent series of Doctor Who?
doctor who kind of reinforces the stereotypes of old people as he is wise and strict.

Susan reinforces the stereotype of young people as she listens to music and has a 'popular' hairstyle.
4) What representations of race/ethnicity can be found in Doctor Who: An Earthly Child? Is this surprising or not? Give reasons for your answer and consider historical / cultural context (the 1960s). Has this changed in more recent series of Doctor Who?

5) How is social class represented in An Unearthly Child? Think about how education and knowledge is presented in the episode.

Social and Historical context

1) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the social and historical contexts of the 1960s?

2) How might audiences have felt towards science fiction in the 1960s?