Wednesday 14th & 15th January 2014 - lesson write up

American government were showing live footage of the Vietnamese war into peoples homes.
- Civil rights - U.S.A - 1962

• Jimmi Hendrix - star spangled banner and The Beatles' - revolution number 9 were a new form of music and was called 'abstract'
• Rolling Stones - I Can't Get No Satisfaction - They were singing about drugs and things such as wanting to hold your hand when in reality it is a connotation for sex.

Kent state shootings - Ohio

• American soldiers shooting students for protesting
• society at war within itself. People are rejecting the ideologies of that time.

Marshall Mcluhan - ' the medium is the message'

Timothy Leary - 'turn on, turn in, drop out'

1970's

Sex pistols song banned because it was seen as offensive to the Queen yet it still went to no'1 but the BBC stopped it and it only went to no'2.

Key feature of post-modernism is irony - sex pistol member wearing a swastika and swearing on TV especially before the watershed.

- New conservative agenda - 1980's

- Post-modern food - McArabia - everything can be post-modern

- prior to this people didn't have credit cards. They wanted them so they could be like the - - - stars and have expensive things. e.g. 'Duran Duran' 'wham!'

- 'conspicuous consumption' - showing off what you own.

Margaret Thatcher stopped parts of the trade union and shut down many manufacturing companies. this caused the collapse of the soviet union and they couldn't afford it so it went back to normal after they had banned many things one being 'The Beatles'

Twin towers attack - Hyper-real TV, live but we weren't actually there - globalisation 9/11

we are presumers

the world has become a global village and has got smaller because of technology.

- Simulacrum - copy of a copy of a copy

there is not such things as originality

- 'media no longer holds a mirror up to society and reality - it is society and reality'. - Strinati

Hybrid genres - cowboys VS aliens , Shaun of the dead

Pastiche - e.g. Blue harvest, family guy star wars episode.

Self reflexivity - in the post-modern world media texts make visible and challenge the ideas of the truth and reality removing the illusion that films, music or any media text can ever accurately or naturally reproduce reality or truth.

'All things are subjected to interpretation, whichever interpretation prevails of a given time is a function of power and not truth.' - Niezche.

- we get the idea that there are always competing versions of reality.