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  Postmodernism in music video: Blog tasks Media Magazine Theory Drop - Postmodernism Create a new blog post called 'Postmodernism in music video: blog tasks'. 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? Postmodernism is making fun of authority to its face. 2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay ' The Death of the Author '? when he said that a writer’s opinions, intentions or interpretation of their own work are no more valid than anyone else’s. 3) What is metatextuality? Metatextuality is where a text draws attention to the fact that it is a text. It points to the process of its own creation. 4) What is the repeated phrase on the cartoon on postmodernism on page 28?   Post modernism is a cultural ...

Create a new blog post called ' TV assessment learner response ' and complete the following tasks on your   coursework blog : 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:  Q1 is very solid, not far from the top level. If we can match that in the 25 mark essays we will be in a good place. EBI:  Revise some elements of the CSPs. Biggest factor is question focus: ideological positioning. What is the message for the audience? Try to look at both sides. 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: I should have defined the three post-modern ideas  accurately. To reach level three I should have expanded on my answer and write about the  knowledge and understanding o...

  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? Starting with a Hammond organ’s six ascending notes before a mournful flute solo, it paints a bleak aural and lyrical landscape. Written in E♭, more attuned to “mood music”, with nods to cinematic soundtracks and music hall tradition, it reflects and engenders anxiety. 2) What subcultur es 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?  It articulates anger at a state structure, an economic system and an entrenched animosity towards ...

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?  Of course, the visual cues associated with what could be classified as  western —cowboy hats, cow prints, rhinestones, and fringed suede jackets, to name a few—are certainly not limited to the likes of  Kacey Musgraves  or John Wayne. 2) How did the Yeehaw agenda come about?  “Yeehaw Agenda” by  Bri Malandro , a Texas-based pop-culture archivist. Her Instagram account, also called @theyeehawagenda, functions as both an archive and celebration of black cowboy aesthetics in popular culture. 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 i...

  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, his birth name is Montero Hill, but he has been calling himself “Lil Nas X” for several years now. By the end of the year on December 3rd 2018 he released a song called “Old Town Road.”  He...