South Park-textual analysis

textual analysis:

+ mise-en-scene

  -props: teddys,teacups, knives, rope, go-kart,

  -costume: jackets, hats, gloves, clothes for a snowy weather

  -setting: school, home, streets, train tracks

+sound:

  -diegetic sound: background music, james bond music when kenny dies, repitition of romantic music when mother sees another guy in barn.

  -non-diegetic sound: birds, characters talking

+editing:

  -straight cuts when new character starts to talk

  -slow pace editing when mother telling son how she got pregnant

  -zooming-in when mother looks for a potential guy to sleep with

+ narrative:

   -this episode is about cartaman who is not acting like himself as he is in search for his dad and finds out that his mum has slept with many guys which makes her a slut. when he finds out he has a native american dad he wears native american clothing, for the african american dad he wears gold chains and rings. he tries to blend in with the culture of his dad by wearing similar clothes but then finds out that his mum has slept with a number of guys. he takes a dna test and still the episode leaves us in a cliffhanger as they do not tell us who his dad is.

+language:

  -"fat ugly bitch"

  -"bastard"

  -"whore"

  -"son-of-a-bitch"

+ important scenes:

   -kenny gets run over by train by as he gets stuck onto a go-kart

   -chef and cartaman talk about how to have sex and how a woman gets pregnant

   -parents dont care what the children watch

   -a kid walking into a bar/pub with no id checked

  more to be done