Chandler's Myth

Last lesson we were meant to put our main task through Chandler's Myth, here's the result:
Reception

• The main character is portrayed as a hero.
• The female character stays behind.
• The military is glorified.
• Aliens are vilified. They do not represent anything other than a simple narrative device, a necessary opposition.
• The society in which the film takes place has no identifiable class structure (it's kind of hard to fit that kind of stuff into 120 seconds).
• The age of all characters is ambiguous.

Production.

• Romantic interest is required as a sub-plot.
• Religion is not represented at all.
• An enemy is necessary to the story, this is why it aliens are included.
• The story is male-dominated, womans only play supportive roles.

Reference

• Military action taking place in a sci-fi environmnet is a convention of science fiction.
• Society dictates that womans are not meant to fight, they are protected from conflict.
• The military is male-dominated.
• There is no religious 'driving force'.

It's fairly unclear, and still in note-form. Piyal muttered something about turning it into an essay, he wasn't in the lesson when we studied it.

I have a few other notes to offload, the condensed definitions of Reference, Production and Reception.

• Reference is the content and context of the media text.
• Reception is the effect the media text has on an audience, it includes representation.
• Production is how the media text is constructed.

These all affect one another.