Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open Factsheet #54: Introduction to Postmodernism. Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets - you'll need to save the factsheet to USB or email it to yourself in order to complete this at home. Read the factsheet and answer the following questions:
1) Read the section on Strinati's five ways to define postmodernity. What examples are provided of the breakdown of the distinction between culture and society (media-isation)?
1) Read the section on Strinati's five ways to define postmodernity. What examples are provided of the breakdown of the distinction between culture and society (media-isation)?
First is the fact that advertising can make a successful product while its quality is really poor. It shows that any prouct can fail without advertising. Sacha Cohen's creation of the characters Borat and Bruno is also a good example.
2) What is Fredric Jameson's idea of 'historical deafness'? How can the idea of 'historical deafness' be applied to Deutschland 83?
It's the idea that the media are loosing the historical content. For example learning about the Cold War is limited to some content and stereotypes shown in media.
3) What examples and theories are provided for the idea of 'style over substance'?
The fact that celebrities are famous for being famous, rather than having an actual talent, is one example of style over substance. For example, celebrities are becoming more famous because of reality television shows like Big Brother, instead of showing special talent in sport or art etc. ⠀
4) What examples from music are provided for the breakdown of the distinction between art and popular culture? Can this be applied to Deutschland 83?
High culture refers to art and it tends to be more mainstream / common in popular culture. An example would be a sampling of classical music with pop music. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
5) What is bricolage? What examples of bricolage can be found in Deutschland 83?
Bricolage is a term that means 'jumbled' or 'mixed up', and is refers to juxtaposing old and new texts/images/concepts to produce new meanings.
The best scenes to see the example of bricolage is the opening scene and the scene in the supermarket.
6) How can the audience pleasures of Deutschland 83 be linked to postmodernism? Read 'The decline of meta-narratives' and 'Media texts and the postmodern' to help answer this.
Deutschland 83 links to postmodernism because it takes key ideas and concepts (big stories) like communism and socialism, ad applies them to a more traditional text. Deutschland 83 also takes up the idea that postmodernism "denies that there can be single truths / realities" because Martin's character leads a double life as an undercover spy-living two realties instead of one.
7) Read the analysis of media concepts and postmodern approaches on page 3 of the factsheet. Choose three of the concepts and write an example from Deutschland 83. Clue: genre, representation, ideology and audience would all be good options for this task.
Genre: The genre of spy / thriller was repeated throughout the series through the codes of cinematography and audio.
Representation: the scenes that divide East Germans from the West. Their ideologies and political views are entirely different
Audience: The TV drama was viewed worldwide by various audiences after the release of Deutschland 83, but not every audience accepted of the series. The German audience members specifically didn't enjoy the series because they felt the show wasn't up to standard they would have wanted.
8) Now look at page 4 of the factsheet. How does Deutschland 83 demonstrate aspects of the postmodern in its construction and ideological positioning?
In its construction and ideological positioning, D83 demonstrates parts of the postmodernism as it is based on true events, but it takes into consideration the various factual explanations why everything happened.
9) Which key scenes from Deutschland 83 best provide examples of postmodernism? Why?
The supermarket scene is an example of postmodernism because of pop art such as shelves that could be a optimistic interpratation of Andy Warhol's work, often referred to as pastiche.
10) Why might audiences enjoy the postmodern aspects of Deutschland 83? What audience pleasures might elements of bricolage or pastiche provide viewers?
Audiences can enjoy the series because it gives a sense of nostalgia for older generations to enjoy and a lot of information about the East-West conflict to avoid ' historical deafness. '
Genre: The genre of spy / thriller was repeated throughout the series through the codes of cinematography and audio.
Representation: the scenes that divide East Germans from the West. Their ideologies and political views are entirely different
Audience: The TV drama was viewed worldwide by various audiences after the release of Deutschland 83, but not every audience accepted of the series. The German audience members specifically didn't enjoy the series because they felt the show wasn't up to standard they would have wanted.
8) Now look at page 4 of the factsheet. How does Deutschland 83 demonstrate aspects of the postmodern in its construction and ideological positioning?
In its construction and ideological positioning, D83 demonstrates parts of the postmodernism as it is based on true events, but it takes into consideration the various factual explanations why everything happened.
9) Which key scenes from Deutschland 83 best provide examples of postmodernism? Why?
The supermarket scene is an example of postmodernism because of pop art such as shelves that could be a optimistic interpratation of Andy Warhol's work, often referred to as pastiche.
10) Why might audiences enjoy the postmodern aspects of Deutschland 83? What audience pleasures might elements of bricolage or pastiche provide viewers?
Audiences can enjoy the series because it gives a sense of nostalgia for older generations to enjoy and a lot of information about the East-West conflict to avoid ' historical deafness. '
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