Ehsan's Media blog2 - Bush

“Realism is a vital component of television drama”. To what extent does an analysis of your television close-study products support this view?  [25 marks] A sense of realism is important for most media texts, but when it comes to a television drama, realism with a healthy sense of fiction becomes an attractive combination. I believe that both CSP's, Capital and D83 (Deutschland 83) do this appropriately, each with their own way of doing so. D83 does realism in a different way compared to Capital; it sends a realistic/relatable main character to a historically known place, to do a larger than life, unrealistic task, using both fiction and real events in its favour to create a pleasurable experience; It helped to appeal to personal Identity, relationship, diversion and surveillance (Blumr and Katz uses and gratifications theory) by doing so, identity through creating a realistic protagonist with ordinary issues (apart from the whole saving the world issue), relationship is quite ...

1) What does the 'industry' concept in A Level Media Studies refer to? Industry stands for the different media-related businesses and companies that produce media texts   2) What does David Hesmondhalgh argue with regards to how the creative industries have changed since the 1980s? Hesmondhalgh argues that creative industries are slowly becoming more important, becoming the center of economic action; along with this, he also does believe that due to digitisation, the technology sector is slowly overlapping the traditional media sector. 3) Choose the three most significant points Hesmondhalgh makes regarding the changing cultural industries. Why are these the most significant in your view? Globalisation: Globalisation/digitisation combined has resulted in easy access for media texts on an international level e.g. foreign dramas on Netflix is a common thing, this was only possible due to the introduction of foreign tv through globalization Digitisation: Along with gl...

1)  Introduction to TV Drama 2)  Capital: Case study 3)  Capital: Marxism and Hegemony 4)  Capital: Applying Marxism 5)  Deutschland 83: Case study 6)  Deutschland 83: Close-textual analysis notes 7)  Deutschland 83: Postmodernism 8)  Industries: The rise of foreign-language TV dramas

1) What does the article suggest regarding the traditional audience for foreign-language subtitled media? The article suggests that people who watch subtitled tv tend to be pretentious, dull etc 2) What does Walter Iuzzolino suggest is the key appeal of his 'Walter Presents' shows? Two USP's: They were massively successful in their respective home countries They all earned substantial amounts of money. 3) The article makes an interesting claim for the popularity of subtitles in the multi-screen age. What does it suggest? The subtitles act as a way to keep the interest of the viewers, stopping them from getting distracted  4) What are the other audiences pleasures of foreign TV drama suggested by the article? Walter states that the main pleasure for audiences are surveillance, with fiction helping the viewers interested with foreign TV    Now look at the bonus article - on Sherlock and how viewers are steering their favourite shows. 5) What examples are ...