Narrative Neal

How it fits into Homelands


Mise-en-scene

Fake blood
Guns
Bombs
Detectives
Eposions
Dark Rooms 
Interrogation Room
Briefing Rooms
Drugs
Lie Detector
Over Shoulder Shots
Establishing Shots
Violence

Narratives

Investigation
Audience Don't Know Whether Brody Is Or Isn't
Family Affairs
Crime
Secretive
Binary Oppositions, Police vs Terrorist
Phycological
Politics
Military

Stock Characters

Detective
Police
Secret Agent
Polition
Military

Evaluate The Relevance Of Neale's Genre Theory To Long Term Television Drama

Neale's genre theory is the idea that genre's are ideas shared through different platforms by producers and audiences. Neale's theory includes different parts of the following: mise-en-scene, typical narratives, stock characters, and themes. And his theory also goes onto talk about the use of mixed genres in popular culture and films, becoming a hybrid genre.

Homelands mise-en-scene is interlinking with Neale's theory in the way that Homelands uses props such as guns and drugs in order to get across to the audience that they follow the genre conventions of other TV Crime Dramas. Homeland also uses the set designs showing dark interrogation rooms and CIA briefing room a lot in their production. Homelands also makes use of classic things you would expect to see in crime dramas, such as lie detector tests, violence, and detectives. This paired with the shot type being that of establishing shots and close up shots all conclude how this is represented as a typical crime drama TV show.

The first season of Homelands shows its reliability toward the theory of gender in the way that narrative is very much spun around how it is the good vs the bad and the way that Homelands are a hybrid of many different genres. We see that Homeland represents itself as not just a Crime Drama, but also a political drama programs and also military in the way that Brody was a soldier before he got turned into a double agent. As well as this, Carries Bi-Polar is a way to mix further genres into the hybrid in the way it portrays phycological dramas.

The way that characters have progressed through Homelands are extremely in keeping with the way that it follows other TV drama conventions such as detectives, politicians, and secret CIA agents. Other Crime Drama series follow these stock characters as well. This means that in this particular are of Neal's theory is an are that Homelands fit into very well.