neev media coursework

Music Video: Postmodernism in music video 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? 2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay ' The Death of the Author '? 3) What is metatextuality? 4) What is the repeated phrase on the cartoon on postmodernism on page 28? 5) How does postmodernism link to media representations and reality? Music video CSPs and postmodernism Now apply postmodern ideas to our music video CSPs by answering the following questions: 1) How does the music video for Ghost Town incorporate elements of postmodernism? 2) What film genre...

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? 2) What subcultures did 2 Tone emerge from in the late 1970s? 3) What social contexts are discussed regarding the UK in 1981? 4) Cultural critic Mark Fisher describes the video as ‘eerie’. What do you think is 'eerie' about the Ghost Town video? 5) Look at the final section (‘Not a dance track’). What does the writer suggest might be the meanings created in the video? Do you agree? Now  read this BBC website feature on the 30th anniversary of Ghost Town’s release .  1) How does the article describe the song? 2) What does the article say about the social context of the time – what was happening in Britain in 1981? 3) How did The Specials reflect an increasingly multicultural Britain? 4) How can we l...

  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?  The article identifies visual cues such as cowboy hats, boots, horses, denim, fringed jackets, and desert landscapes. These are all traditional symbols of the Western genre and help create a recognisable cowboy image. 2) How did the Yeehaw agenda come about?  The Yeehaw agenda began as an online trend. It grew through memes, fashion, and music, with artists like Lil Nas X helping popularise it. It became a way to celebrate Black identity in cowboy culture. 3) Why has it been suggested that the black cowboy has been 'erased from American culture'?  The article suggests Black cowboys were erased because history and media have mainly focused on white cowboys. In reality, many cowboys were Black, but this has been ignored in films and popular cult...