Many examples which have been provided and defines postmodernism such as advertising the quality of the product they are selling as they can make or break a company irrespective.Where once the reality of the product would create its success or failure (e.g. how well it worked), now the media reality of advertising determines the success of products.
2) What is Fredric Jameson's idea of 'historical deafness'? How can the idea of 'historical deafness' be applied to Deutschland 83?
Related to this, according to Jameson, is the idea of historical deafness. He argues that as mediaization increases so the culture finds itself losing a sense of historical context. History is now reduced to ‘talking heads’ documentaries and historical knowledge is often based on media representations.
3) What examples and theories are provided for the idea of 'style over substance'? people are influenced more towards the brand rather than the actual quality of the product, leading the audience to say high prices for these clothings.
big brother is another example as it can help relaunch celebrities careers.
4) What examples from music are provided for the breakdown of the distinction between art and popular culture? Can this be applied to Deutschland 83?
In postmodern culture Andy Warhol created multi-coloured prints of the Mona Lisa (high art) and Campbell’s soup cans (low art)
Pop music (low art) often samples classical music (high art)
Advertising (low art) often makes reference to visual art (high art) or uses classical music (high art) to help sell its products"- Media Magazine
5) What is bricolage? What examples of bricolage can be found in Deutschland 83?
The idea of mixing references is referred to as bricolage. Bricolage refers to the process of adapting and juxtaposing old and new texts, images, ideas or narratives to produce whole new meanings. An example of this in Deutschland 83 is the conventions of the sub-genre of spy. It looks like they are trying to bits of James Bond, as this was a spy narrative.
6) How can the audience pleasures of Deutschland 83 be linked to postmodernism? Read 'The decline of meta-narratives' and 'Media texts and the postmodern' to help answer this.
In Deutschland 83 there are many links to postmodernism such as nostalgia because of how they used examples such as food, and the walkman which was a special product during the 80's as it was a new form of technology.
7)
Read the analysis of media concepts and postmodern approaches on page 3
of the factsheet. Choose three of the concepts and write an example from
Deutschland 83. Clue: genre, representation, ideology and audience would all be good options for this task.
Genre
"Postmodern texts play with genre codes and subvert them. Sometimes this is as simple as constructing a text that is a hybrid – a mix of more than one genre. In more complex texts the genre can be difficult to identify
Representation A postmodern representation subverts expectations. Contemporary texts often play
with conventional ideas in representations such as creating an immoral hero or a sympathetic villain. In Deutschland 83, the representation is to portray Martin as the hero, as he is saving his mother by doing this mission, and also fighting for his country aswell.
Audience
believe all audiences will enjoy this show as for the older audiences I
believe they will feel a strong sense of nostalgia as the most probably
will have lived through this time period and will notice things like
Ronald Reagan's famous Evil Empire speech.
8) Now look at page 4 of the factsheet. How does Deutschland 83 demonstrate aspects of the postmodern in its construction and ideological positioning?
Modern texts demonstrate aspects of the postmodern in their construction and/or ideological positioning these texts can be seen to be part of postmodern culture.
The
spy scene may be an example demonstrating construction and ideological
positioning in Deutschland 83 as only the key moments of the spying
scene is made to the final edit in order to seem much more realistic to
audiences and provide them with much more pleasures.
9) Which key scenes from Deutschland 83 best provide examples of postmodernism? Why?
When
Martin was training it was a good example of post modernism as his
training is comparable to that of a James Bond montage sequence. The
intertexuality mixing with mise-en-scene reinforces the realism making
it a good example of postmodernism.
10)
Why might audiences enjoy the postmodern aspects of Deutschland 83? What
audience pleasures might elements of bricolage or pastiche provide
viewers?
A audience pleasure provided is the element of pastiche which refers to media products that imitate the style of another text, artist or time period. Pastiche is an example of intertextuality and takes a positive view of the original source, this is done through key historical events.
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