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  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? Good vs Evil (binary opposition- Levi Strauss)  Poor vs rich  2) Why does Deutschland 83 provide a particularly good example for postmodern analysis?  Because it creates a relationship between the past and the present. This is shown with the bricologe of texts as well as references with others (pastiche). 3) Pick out some of the aspects of the opening of episode 1 and explain why they are significant. At 00:00- 05:05 there was aspects of Hyper reality  Showing Ronald Reagen (The real person) and actual quotes he s...

  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. Negative:   it had shed half its starting audience, with only 1.72m viewers. Not quite “the flop of the year”, as Bild called it, but underwhelming nonetheless. Positive: It's a perfect moment in a near-perfect series. 2) Why does the second Guardian article suggest the Germans didn't like the show? 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 , instead it makes us engage with the socialist regime’s worldview, in which a military exercise in West Germany poses a potentially existential threat. 3) Find three 'below the line' comments fro...

  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? Because "The hardest worker on the street was an illegal immigrant, determined to pay her way and not touch a penny of benefits. She was deported, though she did find time to teach English to some of her fellow saints at the detention centre." implying that they are trying to make the most hated minorities or people in certain situations seem like heroes just trying to to do their best and the white characters (excluding the old lady) shown as the 'bad people' therefore showing their left wing ideology. 2) Choose  three  quotes from the review that are particularly critical of  Capital  and paste them into your blogpost. Do you agree with the criticisms? Why? You can be certain it wasn’t the plot that attracted the BBC drama department in the first place.  But that concept went nowhere...