- Iclectic borrowing
- One of the features of PM is paranoia especially in Western society
- controlling his life, they have a 'greatest hits' of his life
- creating a bricolage of Sylvia from other media texts
- being controlled by the media
- similar to goggle box ' world within a world'
- 'guards his privacy' yet he is broadcasting someone's life everyday
- Full of PM media - TV screens
- watching him from being a baby
- modification of culture - can buy everything that is seen in the show - Truman Catelog
- 'We accept the reality of the world we are presented' - presented through the media
- Sea Haven is the way the world should be
- TV's first on air conception
Pleasantville
- Gary Ross - 1998
- Sit-com- Reese Witherspoon - Toby Maguire
- channel hopping - PM - we have a choice
- 1950's setting - white picket fence, beetles, red roses
- Nuclear family - all white
- looks like he's talking to someone but he's not, manipulated through the media
- Told the world is going to be bad so they go to a safe place, retreat to nostalgia - PM
- Eating lots for breakfast - normal to them - creating a parody
- fire service are seen rescuing a cat, no real dangers
- Only live on two streets because that's all they used in the show
- kicks a basketball and it goes in the net
- they're bringing 21st century ideologies into the 1950's
- Rock & Roll music coming on to signify change
- Jazz music coming on to signify change in their ideology
- books are writing themselves
- black and white people start to dislike the coloured people - racism
- destroying everything different
Second Life
- Game - PM
- People are creating music for the game but aren't famous in real life
- virtual reality headset for online streaming only
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