| 9 | Broadcast Fiction: Heroes |
In this chapter we use the series Heroes as an example of an American-based fictional television series. We will examine Heroes using a variety of key concepts, exploring issues such as:
- genre
- codes and conventions
- representation
- institution
- audience.
Figure 9.1 Heroes
Stokes suggests that it is a basic human characteristic to tell stories about ourselves, about the world and about the people and phenomena that we encounter. Stokes suggests that ‘Narrative also conveys the ideology of a culture, and it is one of the means by which values and ideals are reproduced culturally’ (Stokes 2003: 67).
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