His Dark Materials: industries, audiences and contexts — AQA GCSE Media Studies 8572
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His Dark Materials: industries, audiences and contexts
His Dark Materials
What you need to know
Industry: made by Bad Wolf, in association with New Line Cinema, for BBC One and HBO, a co-production that pays for high production values and reaches a global market, combining licence-fee and commercial funding.
Audiences: a family audience and fans of the novels, viewers on BBC One and iPlayer in the UK and on HBO in the United States, and how the series was marketed.
Contexts: a 21st-century adaptation of novels from the 1990s, and its themes of power, authority and freedom.
The 2023 and 2024 Paper 2 exams screened extracts from this episode.
Refer to specific scenes in your own words, quoting no more than a few words of dialogue.
