Essay Questions

Choose one of these questions:

“Discuss 2 or more media texts that you would define as post-modern and explain why you would give them this label.”

“Consider the ways in which post-modern media challenge conventional relations between audience and text”.

"MAN THE LIFEBOATS:

THE IDIOTS ARE COMING"

Charlie Brooker

For this unit we will be studying contemporary media issues.

This blog is about one of those issues called Postmodernism.

We will be studying music videos and sitcoms in order to understand what postmodernism is.

For this unit you will have an exam in June.

You will have to answer one question from a choice of 6 topic areas.

The question will ask you to discuss postmodernism using two or more media texts.

The texts will be music videos and sitcoms.

Further definition of Postmodernism

http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/pomo.html

Modernism And Postmodernism

View more presentations from Rob McMinn.

Key Terms in Postmodernism

Fast 'n' Bulbous article on feminism, postmodernism and music videos

http://www.fastnbulbous.com/feminism_videos.htm

Prospect magazine Echo Beach

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