Shreyam's Media Coursework Blog 2 - Mr Halsey

Media Magazine -  A Postmodern Reimagining of the Past Media Magazine 73 has a feature exploring Deutschland 83 as a postmodern media product.  Read ‘Deutschland 83 - A Postmodern Reimagining of the Past’ in MM73  (p18). You'll  find our Media Magazine archive here  - remember you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. Answer the following questions: 1) What were the classic media representations of the Cold War? Representations of Cold War-era German y often fitted  a stereotypical binary ‘good vs evil’. 2) Why does Deutschland 83 provide a particularly good example for postmodern analysis?  It presents the East and  West as binary opposites through codes and  conventions . The communist East is presented grey and  stark, no billboards, culture or entertainment and strict  limitations of citizens’ movements and availability of certain  foods (e.g. coffee and bananas). The capitalist West , in  contrast, is a world of department stores, restaurants and  cars, pop-cultur

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. Deutschland 83’s first episode of eight was the  most-watched foreign-language drama in UK history . With the least ambiguous title ever, American-German husband-and-wife team Anna and Joerg Winger created an irresistible export: a funky exercise in pop nostalgia underpinned by actual events – crucially, the Nato war game codenamed Able Archer, deliberately misconstrued by a paranoid east as a cover for an actual preemptive strike that almost sparked World War III. By focusing the story around Martin Rauch, a young East German border guard going undercover in the west, it doesn’t just make the viewer empathise with a Stasi agent on a human level – in the way The Lives of Others did – it makes us en

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 ? Everything British came in for a dose of loathing. When investment banker Roger muttered something self-deprecating, one of the immigrant characters snarled, with real anger: ‘Ah! The Great British understatement!’ 2) Choose  three  quotes from the review that are particularly critical of  Capital  and paste them into your blog post. Do you agree with the criticisms? Why? The last 20 minutes contained no plot. Whatever story there had ever been was over. We just watched all the characters saying goodbye to each other, including an excruciating round of farewells as Mrs Kamal kissed her sons outside the corner shop, with a banal word for all of them. Capital started with an intriguing idea: some unknown anarchist was posting ominous cards through the doors in a gentrified London street, where property values and parking permits were al