Media Blog 2: TK

  TV ASSESSMENT: LEARNER RESPONSE: Mr bush:

  MUSIC VIDEO: END OF UNIT INDEX: Music video: Introduction Music video: Old town Road CSP Music video: Post colonial theory Music video: Ghost town CSP Music Video: Postmodernism

  MUSIC VIDEO: POSTMODERNISM: 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: How does the article define postmodernism in the first page of the article? post modernism takes this concept of questioning traditional structures, representations and expectations and pushes things a step further.  What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay 'The Death of the Author'? He challenged tradition when he said that a writers opinions, intentions or interpretation of their own work are no more valid that anyone else's.  What is metatextuality? Metatextuality is where a text draws attentions to the fact that it is a text, it points to the process of its own creation.  What is the

  MUSIC VIDEO: GHOST TOWN CSP: 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 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. What subcultures did 2 Tone emerge from in the late 1970s? Mod and Punk subcultures  and its musical roots and the people in it,  audiences  and bands, were both black and white. 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 p