Doctor Who: Language and Representation blog tasks

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1) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the social and historical contexts of the 1960s?
- They had old-fashioned chalkboards in the back, because of the time period which was modern back then. It gives the full effect of a school, the chemistry class has chemical bonding/ chemistry equations too.

2) How might audiences have felt towards science fiction in the 1960s?
- Because it was something new it would've been really shocking for the audience, The Sci-Fi genre wasn't very common so it probably really intrigued them.

2) How does Todorov's theory of equilibrium apply to An Unearthly Child?
- The story starts off normal with no disruptions, two teachers are confused and suspicious about their student Susan Foreman which starts building up to the disruption, with the feud between Ian and the grandfather, and to where they all enter the TARDIS and travel to a new place which is seen as the new equillibrium.


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.
- Hero - Ian
- Damsel in distress / hero- Barbara Wright
- Heroine - Susan Foreman 
- Villain- Grandfather / Doctor Who

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.
One enigma is the foggy London at the first scene of the episode which denotes mystery and horror.Another enigma is Susan's strange understanding of history and space suggesting her not to be human this is further shown in her dancing.

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? You can find notes on binary opposition if you scroll up this page if you haven't covered this in class yet.


1) What stereotypes of men are reinforced and subverted in Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child? How?

- A stereotype of men being reinforced is in the episode Ian is in charge and 'handles' the grandfather, also the grandfather is very evil and rude. However a stereotype being subverted is that Ian is 'helping' , Barbara, where in a period of time it would normally be 'the woman helping the man'.

2) What stereotypes of women/girls are reinforced and subverted in Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child? How?

-A stereotype of woman being reinforced is that woman are overly emotional this is shown at Susan's over reactions and outbursts.A stereotype of woman being subverted is them being sidekicks or "cheerleaders" this is shown by Barbara asking Ian for help making Ian the sidekick.

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)? 

4) What representations of race/ethnicity can be found in Doctor Who: An Earthly Child? 
- The main race/ethnicity recognised is white race, a POC was not included in the cast, which was common because of the the racism and segregation in the time.

5) How is social class represented in An Unearthly Child? Think about how education and knowledge is presented in the episode.
-People of the middle/higher class were presented in the show, the form of dressing/make-up/ hairstyles etc... was really seen and higher class

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