Social contexts influence our opinions on the television show and give us an opinion on what the show will be like. For example, we build an impression of the show just from the setting, the language used and even how people are dressed. In the Avengers we can instantly tell that the scene is set in the 1960's as the men are all wearing suits and refer to the women as 'dolls' and use very old fashioned sayings that wouldn't be used today. We can see how the social context of the 1960's is portrayed in the Avengers through blown up buildings and bunkers resembling a war that is still largely in peoples minds at the time. There are lots of examples of T.V shows doing this as to be popular, a television show needs to stay relevant to the time and be up to date with the social context of the time.
Also, there are many old fashioned hints throughout the episodes, for example when John Steed and Emma Peel were on the train and they get out an entire tray and from their bag and have 'afternoon tea'.
Seb Hardy
Mark 2 out of 10
ReplyDelete1. You draw attention to the national social anxieties caused by the recent war 'the enemy within' and the sinister conspiracies.
2. You should notice that Emma Peel is represented as an intelligent career woman on equal terms with Steed.
3. You could have explained other issues: ethnic inequalities; assumption of heterosexuality; 60's generation gap between Peel and Steed; contested social values between 'swinging London and duty to Queen and country