Man Like Mobeen: media language and representation — Eduqas GCSE Media Studies C680
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies · C680
Man Like Mobeen: media language and representation
Sitcom
What you need to know
Man Like Mobeen, Series 1, Episode 2, 'Wifey Riddim': a BBC sitcom written by and starring Guz Khan, set in Small Heath, Birmingham, about Mobeen, a young British Muslim man.
Media language: sitcom conventions (a recurring cast, a familiar setting, situational and character comedy, and a circular narrative), camerawork, editing and sound, and how the series varies the genre.
Representation: British Muslim identity, ethnicity, family, masculinity and age, and how the series plays with and challenges stereotypes.
Studied in the BBC iPlayer version, which the exam extract is taken from.
Refer to specific scenes in your own words, quoting no more than a few words of dialogue.
