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Te levision industry contexts: Blog tasks To finish our work on television, we need to complete some tasks exploring industry contexts around foreign-language TV, the changing audience for television and how streaming impacts the way audiences consume TV. Indeed, when answering these questions, consider the issues from both an  audience  and  industry  perspective. Independent: British viewers can't get enough of foreign-language dramas Read this  Independent feature on foreign-language dramas . If the website is blocked or forcing you to register  you can access the text of the article here . It features an in-depth interview with Walter Iuzzolino who curates Channel 4's Walter Presents programming. Answer the questions below: 1) What does the article suggest regarding the traditional audience for foreign-language subtitled media? - Its states that people will assume and  quietly declared you as pretentious, dull and, possibly, a little odd ...

Postmodernism & Deutschland 83: blog tasks Media Magazine -  A Postmodern Re-imagining of the Past Media Magazine 73 has a feature exploring Deutschland 83 as a postmodern media product. Read ‘Deutschland 83 - A Postmodern Re-imagining of the Past’ in MM73  (p18). You'll  find our Media Magazine archive here  - remember you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. Answer the following questions: 1) What were the classic media representations of the Cold War? - Germany often fit a stereotypical binary ‘good vs evil’  where there was seen to be a lot of tension and hostility between the Soviet bloc countries and the West. 2) Why does Deutschland 83 provide a particularly good example for postmodern analysis?  - All postmodern texts create a relationship with the past and the first episode of Deutschland 83, ‘Quantum Jump’, does this with intertitles that frame its historical context. 3) Pick out some of the aspects of the opening of e...

Reviews and features Read the following review and feature on  Capital : Guardian review by Sam Wollaston London Evening Standard: five things you need to know about  Capital 1) What positive points does the review pick out about  Capital ?  What criticisms are made - either of the TV drama or the original novel? -The cast is brilliant-as they portray London and the people's lives in a short span of time correctly. 2) What references can you find in the reviews and feature to the idea Capital is a 'state-of-the-nation' drama? How does it capture modern-day London? -Modern day London has an increase of immigrants because of various reasons like work or war and Capital has portrayed this perfectly. 1) How does the drama use camerawork to capture London life? -In the trailer, medium close up shots and close ups are used to show the variety of people and lives in London.  2) How does the trailer introduce the different narrative strands suggesting tension or enigma ...

Introduction: Reviews and features Read the following reviews and features on  Deutschland 83 : The Guardian - Your next box set: Deutschland 83 The Guardian - Deutschland 83 Pity the Germans don't like it 1) Find one positive aspect and one criticism of  Deutschland 83  in the reviews. - It’s a perfect moment in a near-perfect series. Deutschland 83’s first episode of eight was the  most-watched foreign-language drama in UK history . - It  was riddled with very silly inaccuracies, which were required for the plot to work; and it was on at the same time as the Voice 2) Why does the second Guardian article suggest the Germans didn't like the show? - By focusing the story around Martin Rauch, a young East German border guard going undercover in the west, it doesn’t just make the viewer empathise with a Stasi agent on a human level – in the way The Lives of Others did – it makes us engage with the socialist regime’s worldview, in which a military exercise in West G...

  Marxism & hegemony: blog tasks Task 1: Mail Online review of Capital 1) Re-read the  Mail Online review of  Capital . Why does it suggest that  Capital  features a left-wing ideology? -It suggests Capital features left wing ideology because it is showing immigrants in a positive way. 2) Choose  three  quotes from the review that are particularly critical of  Capital  and paste them into your blogpost. Do you agree with the criticisms? Why? -"The hardest worker on the street was an illegal immigrant, determined to pay her way and not touch a penny of benefits." This shows that immigrants are hard working people that are determined to make their future better, as they were not given everything easily at some point in their lives, they have to work hard to earn what they want. -" 'The last 20 minutes contained no plot. Whatever story there had ever been was over." Not much was revealed towards the ending leaving the audience to question th...