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Media Magazine Theory Drop - Postmodernism Read ‘The Theory Drop: Postmodernism’ in MM66  (p26). You'll  find our Media Magazine archive here  - remember you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. Answer the following questions: 1) How does the article define postmodernism in the first page of the article? - If modernism is beginning to question authority, then postmodernism is making fun of authority to its face. Postmodernism takes this concept of questioning traditional structures, representations and expectations and pushes things a step further. 2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay ' The Death of the Author '? - Roland Barthes challenged tradition when he said that a writer’s opinions, intentions or interpretation of their own work are no more valid than anyone else’s. Readers are free to interpret a work however they choose, irrespective of what th...

1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). -WWW:Q2 shows good knowledge of the TV CSP's in places and just needs a slight sharper question focus to punch into the higher levels. -EBI:Q1,revise postmodernism,see mark scheme for examples here.        :Q2, need more on genre and whether/how the CSP's are positioning audiences to respond in certain      way (e.g. right wing/left wing,capitalism /communism etc).         2) Read  the whole mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Identify at least  one  potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment (even if you got full marks for the question). Q1:The poster is an excellent example of bricolage the juxtaposition of old and new texts. Q2:The products can be defined as an example of 'state of the nation' series. 3) The first question demanded a respo...

  The Specials - Ghost Town: Blog tasks Background and historical contexts Read  this excellent analysis from The Conversation website of the impact Ghost Town had both musically and visually . Answer the following questions 1)  Why does the writer link the song to cinematic soundtracks and music hall tradition? - Written in E♭, more attuned to “mood music”, with nods to cinematic soundtracks and music hall tradition, it reflects and engenders anxiety. 2) What subcultures did 2 Tone emerge from in the late 1970s? - 2 Tone had emerged stylistically from the  Mod and Punk subcultures  and its musical roots and the people in it, audiences and bands, were both black and white.  3) What social contexts are discussed regarding the UK in 1981? - England was hit by recession and away from rural Skinhead nights,  riots  were breaking out across its urban areas. Deprived, forgotten, run down and angry, these were places where young people, black and white, ...

  Postcolonial theory: blog tasks Wider reading on race and Old Town Road Read  this W Magazine deep dive on the Yeehaw agenda  and answer the following questions:  1) What are the visual cues the article lists as linked to the western genre?  -V isual cues associated with what could be classified as  western. 2) How did the Yeehaw agenda come about?  - In September 2018, the trend of black pop-culture figures wearing cowboy garb was dubbed the “Yeehaw Agenda” by  Bri Malandro , a Texas-based pop-culture archivist. 3) Why has it been suggested that the black cowboy has been 'erased from American culture'?  - The history of the black cowboy has largely been erased from American culture, and the “moment”  black cowboys are having in pop culture right now has actually persisted for quite some time 4) How has the black cowboy aesthetic been reflected by the fashion industry? - Over the past few years, their popularity has surged to the point...

Lil Nas X - Old Town Road: Blog tasks Background and cultural contexts Read  this Vox feature and podcast transcript on Lil Nas X and Old Town Road . Make sure you read the whole thing - including the podcast transcript - then answer the following questions:  1) What is the big debate regarding Old Town Road and genre? - "The debate is over whether “Old Town Road” should be classified as country music . Earlier this year,   Billboard removed “Old Town Road” from its country chart, which boosted the rapper’s profile to a wider audience while fuelling a debate about what defines country music and who gets to decide." 2) What do you learn about the background of Lil Nas X and Old Town Road from the podcast transcript? -   "Lil Nas X is a 20-year-old rapper from Atlanta. Technically his birth name is Montero Hill, but he has been calling himself “Lil Nas X” for several years now. And last year he joined SoundCloud, as many people do. And by the end of the year in De...