The Sweeney: crime drama in the 1970s — Eduqas GCSE Media Studies C680
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies · C680
The Sweeney: crime drama in the 1970s
Crime drama
What you need to know
The Sweeney, Series 1, Episode 1 (1975): an ITV police drama about the Metropolitan Police's Flying Squad, made by Euston Films for Thames Television and studied through a ten-minute extract chosen in class.
Media language: its blend of action and police procedure, filming on location, car chases and fights, and how its conventions compare with Trigger Point's, comparing specific choices in both programmes.
Representation: tough, flawed masculinity, women in minor and stereotyped roles, and how its representations of gender and ethnicity reflect the 1970s.
Industry, audiences and contexts: ITV's commercial network, how audiences watched in 1975 compared with now, and the social context of the time; Section A's context question has named it.
Refer to specific scenes in your own words, quoting no more than a few words of dialogue.
