Rishi A Level Media Blog 2 Mr Halsey

  1) https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/03/introduction-to-tv-drama.html   2) https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/03/capital-case-study.html   3) https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/04/marxism-hegemony-blog-tasks.html  4) https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/04/deutschland-83-case-study-blog-tasks.html 5)  https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/04/tvpostmodernism-and-deutschland-83.html 6) https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/04/tv-industry-contexts.html

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?   "Fifteen years ago, if you'd mentioned to a colleague that you'd spent Saturday night glued to a subtitled European drama, you'd have been quietly declared pretentious, dull and, possibly, a little odd. Skip to today and foreign-language dramas aren't even on-trend, they're fully mainstream. Now we are as likely to discuss the latest Danish thriller over a morning flat white at our desks as we are a new season on HBO." 2) What does Walter Iuzzolino suggest is the key ap...

1) What were the classic media representations of the Cold War? Good vs bad tension between the soviets and west. 2) Why does Deutschland 83 provide a particularly good example for postmodern analysis?    It provides a good example because it create a relationship with the pastand 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 episode 1 and explain why they are significant.    The pictures in the openeing scene theses are significant because this pictures a story without even telling it. It uses real life documents to tell the story of how close the cold war was to a nucular war. This could reel the attention of the audience watching making them more intrgiued and intrested in the show. 4) How does the party scene at Martin's mum's house subvert stereotypes of East Germany in the Cold War? The scene had people dancing laughing and drinking beer and had 99...

  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. Most gripping of all was a televised excerpt from Ronald Reagan's "Evil Empire" speech  in 1983   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 2) Why does the second Guardian article suggest the Germans didn't like the show? A television expert (Lückerath 2015) blamed RTL for advertising Deutschland 83 in an old-fashioned and inappropriate manner: to him the numerous posters in cities around Germany felt overdone and outdated in Germany RTL is known for reality TV romantic comedies or police series ...

  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?  Because in the article it stated that the hardest worker on the street was an illegal immigrant, determined to pay her way and not touch a penny of benefits. She was deported, though she did find time to teach English to some of her fellow saints at the detention centre. 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? While the English residents of Pepys Road were grasping (Lesley Sharp) or deceitful (Robert Emms) or just plain awful (Stirling), the Polish builder had a heart of gold and his Hungarian girlfriend was as honest as Mother Teresa. This shows that immigrants are being emphasised as the good not the bad  Everything British came in for a dose of loath...