Kaye: Media Coursework Blog 2 - Mr Bush

  Media Magazine -  A Postmodern Reimagining of the Past Media Magazine 73 has a feature exploring Deutschland 83 as a postmodern media product. Read ‘Deutschland 83 - A Postmodern Reimagining 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? Representations of Cold War era Germany often fit a stereotypical binary ‘good vs evil’ The Cold War – the state of tension and hostility between the Soviet bloc countries and the West from 1945 to 1990 – has inspired a series of film and media texts within the spy genre. 2) Why does Deutschland 83 provide a particularly good example for postmodern analysis?  Deutschland 83 provides a particularly good example for postmodern analysis because it uses nostalgia, pastiche and self - reflexive media techniques to transform a negati...

  Work through the following tasks to build a detailed case study for   Deutschland 83 . This will give you plenty of background information to use in an exam question. Remember, for this CSP the question could be on any of the key concepts: language, industries, audiences or representations. 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. Yet by the time the last episode was shown in Germany last December, it had shed half its starting audience, with only 1.72m viewers. Not quite “the flop of the year”, as Bild called it, but underwhelming nonetheless. In a strategy successfully employed by  This Is England , the Wingers are developing a sequel set in 86, followed by a conclusive series in 89, when the Wall came down. 2)...

  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? The Capital features a left-wing ideology because it shows how the review was slightly on the negative, saying that the actual narrative was inadequate and has no plot. In addition, it seemed as thought audiences didn't like how there were some scenes that were going too slow and they thought that Capital could have changed it to something more interesting for audiences. 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? "... until I was gnawing my knuckles with frustration. Honestly, you’ll get rid of your family after Christmas faster than this feeble drama departed." "The last 20 minutes contained no plot." "You can be certain it wasn’t the plot that attracted the BBC drama departmen...