archie a level media coursework

 1) How does the article define postmodernism in the first page of the article? ‘what is postmodernism?’                                   you will most likely come away with an answer you’ll only understand with the aid of a dictionary and a reading list as long as your arm. 2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay ' The Death of the Author '? The Death of the Author is the next step after Nietzsche’s ‘God is dead’ statement and with it comes a need to test the boundaries of what a text is. 3) What is metatextuality? Metatextuality is where a text draws attention to the fact that it is a text. 4) What is the repeated phrase on the cartoon on postmodernism on page 28? post modernism is a cultural movement that distrusts all established philosophies and frequently experiments with the medium it is presented in  5) How does postmodernism link to media r...

  1)  Radio: Introduction to Radio 2)  Radio: BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat 3)  Radio: War of the Worlds

  1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to).  Good attempt to link audience to consumption but need more on distribution and industry information  grade:c 18/34 2) Read  the mark scheme for this exam carefully , paying particular attention to the 'indicative content' for each question. Firstly, focus on the unseen question (Q1) and identify  two  points that you could have written in your answer. • the title as a sign anchors the possible meaning of the image – white-collar professionals as gangsters • an ideological reading might suggest that capitalism is a corrupt system which only benefits the few. 3) Look at the indicative content for Q1 again and make a note of any  theories  or examples of  media terminology  you could have used in your answer. • the skyline of contemporary/futuristic skyscrapers are signifiers of the city, banking/finance etc; this is reinforced by the costumes w...

  Read   Media Factsheet #176: CSP Radio - War of the Worlds . You'll need your Greenford Google login to download it. Then answer the following questions: 1) What is the history and narrative behind War of the Worlds? H.G. Wells’ novel of the same name, first published in 1898. It tells the story of an alien invasion and the ensuing conflict between mankind and an extra- terrestrial race from Mars. 2) When was it first broadcast and what is the popular myth regarding the reaction from the audience? Broadcast live on 30th October 1938, popular myth has it that thousands of New Yorkers fled their homes in panic, and all across America 3) How did the New York Times report the reaction the next day? A wave of mass hysteria seized thousands of radio listeners between 8:15 and 9:30 o’clock last night when a broadcast of a dramatization of H. G. Wells’s fantasy, “The War of the Worlds,” led thousands to believe that an interplanetary conflict had started with invading Martians sprea...