media contexts

Question 1

historical context:
what does the sweeney demonstrate?

Answer 1

how genres develop over time

Question 2

historical context:
what does the programme introduced?

Answer 2

a more gritty, realistic representation of the police force informed by cultural influences including press stories and American crime drama imports

Question 3

historical context:
what did the gritty, realistic representation challenged?

Answer 3

the more reassuring image of the police evident in other examples of the genre such as Dixon of Dock Green and Z Cars

Question 4

historical context:
what does the programme also looked different to?

Answer 4

previous crime dramas

Question 5

historical context:
why was it shot on 16mm?

Answer 5

to achieve a washed out, grainy feel to the images, creating a more gritty realism

Question 6

historical context:
why does the sweeney reflected the time in which it was made in the 1970s?

Answer 6

as in the 1970s the actual Flying Squad were in the news after reports of bribery, corruption and consorting with gangland criminals

Question 7

historical context:
what act was not passed when the programme was not produced in the 1984?

Answer 7

Police and Criminal Evidence Act

Question 8

historical context:
why did the police and criminal act provided a code of practice?

Answer 8

for the exercise of police powers.

Question 9

historical context:
before the act was passed, why couldn’t the police secure a conviction?

Answer 9

there were few restrictions on the methods that could be used by the police

Question 10

historical context:
in linked to the limited use by the police, how did regan exhort information from billy?

Answer 10

through violence and suggesting that they can frame him

Question 11

social + cultural contexts:
what does the sweeney tell us about the society of the time?

Answer 11

in terms of social hierarchy, power, gender roles and how authority was regarded

Question 12

social + cultural contexts:
what were the men considered as in the programme? (3)

Answer 12

macho, sexist and in positions of power

Question 13

social + cultural contexts:
what were the men lives in the programmer like that appealed to a male audience

Answer 13

seen to be exciting,

Question 14

social + cultural contexts:
what did the men in the programme often did?

Answer 14

broke the rules and engaged in violence

Question 15

social + cultural contexts:
what are regan and carter depicted as?

Answer 15

good at heart

Question 16

social + cultural contexts:
what does regan and cater’s dubious ways of getting information potentially reflect?

Answer 16

the culture of the Metropolitan Police of the time

Question 17

social + cultural contexts:
who was the new commissioner for the Met in 1972?

Answer 17

Sir Robert Mark

Question 18

social + cultural contexts:
what was the new commissioner for the Net appointed to investigate?

Answer 18

corruption in the London force

Question 19

social + cultural contexts:
what did the new commissioner of the Met described the CID as?

Answer 19

the most routinely corrupt organisation in London

Question 20

social + cultural contexts:
how many officers were prosecuted during the commissioner’s investigation?

Answer 20

50

Question 21

social + cultural contexts:
how many officers took early retirement during the commissioner’s investigation?

Answer 21

478

Question 22

social + cultural contexts:
what did the programme reflected between men and women in in society?

Answer 22

inequality

Question 23

social + cultural contexts:
what were the majority of police officers seen?

Answer 23

men

Question 24

social + cultural contexts:
what were the women’s role frequently in the programme (2)

Answer 24

victim
sexual temptress

Question 25

social + cultural contexts:
how did the programme changed it ways?

Answer 25

way in which crime dramas would be made in the future and audience expectations.

Question 26

social + cultural contexts:
what is said to have the programme change it ways?

Answer 26

was said to be influential in the creation of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes.

Question 27

social + cultural contexts:
what has became culturally iconic with quotes?

Answer 27

from the series passing into popular usage

Question 28

social + cultural contexts:
what 2 songs were illustrated its place in popular culture?

Answer 28

Wow! By Kate Bush
Cool for Cats by Squeeze

Question 29

social + cultural contexts:
why does the programme referred to Kray twins, actual East End gangsters?

Answer 29

to establish credibility and make cultural links

Question 30

social + cultural contexts:
what does Carter say about Kemble?

Answer 30

‘He’s hard. He’s one of the few that The Twins left alone’