Jinx Flashcards
Hall representation
-signs and codes produce meaning
- Durst as villain, disturbed, an enigma ‘still a bunch of question marks’ - Cazalas
- jareki as investigative - reflexive
Gender
Masculinity
- durst is not an obvious suspect
‘looks like a librarian’ - reinforces stereotypical masculinity:
Brother hired body guard?
Low angle Standing next to tall
building
Cody cazalas physical achievements
Gender
Femininity
Bell Hooks
Male violence glamorised:
- Flare shot of domestic violence
- Mum falling off building white intense music - male domination?
-Kathleen ‘beautiful wife’
-Piro wears pink proudly, in charge
-Deborah charaten confrontational gold digger, femma fetal
Butler gender performativity
Durst enigma - Dorothy cider a performative manifestation
Cazalas and Deferins - masculine performative, physical achievements
Hesmondhalgh
Minimise risk maximise audience
Star billing - Jareki famous director- ready made audience
Genre conventions
Marketing
HBO
Jenkins
Fandom
Art from comedian Jamie Lotus
Homoerotic cartoon of Durst and Jareki joking about their relationship - appropriates the jinx offering an alternative reading
GIFS and MEMES of the show on Twitter
BAME groups under represented in legal system
Piro - middle eastern woman, educated, powerful BUT white male culture is at the heart of the narrative
So jarekis rep may be realistic - tokenism
Dursts privilege - hegemonic elite
Hall reception
Preferred - Jareki offering multidimensional rep of Durst
Oppositional - too soft or too harsh , staged and lacks realism
Intertextuality
Adds realism
Headlines
Newspapers
Home movies
News footage
Eels song ‘fresh blood’ adds meaning to encourage view durst as predator
Genre recognised through repitor of elements
Genre conventions:
Reconstructions
Talking heads
Voice of god
Archive footage
Diegetic non diegetic music
Neale
Applied fully
Hybrid of crime drama and documentary - new twist/sub genre
Change:
Interview with Durst
But interview with a murderer
Stylised dramatic - reconstructions, lens’s flare, credit sequence
Reflexive and performative documentary modes
Same:
Genre conventions etc
Uses same repitor of elements as past show Thin Blue Line 1988
Todorov
- Narrative arc unfolds over all the eps not 5 stages in one
- Starts with disequilibrium and has no resolution
- non linear ‘The Body in the Bay’
-postmodern text so doesn’t conform to common narrative structures - meta narrative
Levi Strauss
Binary opposites structuralism
Audience positioned
Doc maker vs subject
Male vs female
Rich vs poor
Ordinary vs disturbed - foreshadowing, jareki presenting unmediated truth? - realism but it’s Jarekis version so different ?
Barthes
Enigma codes:
Keep audience and narrative moving and involved
Action codes:
Title sequence visuals -
Ambulance - dead mum? Or victim?
Body layered with image of Bay
Wigs makeup mannequin - pd
couples fighting - murder, dv
Establishing shot of city scape at night
Durst looking at camera
Baudrillard
Audience are able to decode what’s real vs constructed
True crime genre is well understood - critical comments on social media - doesn’t accept this as reality vs simulation
