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Postmodern Television. Postmodern Style in TV. Animated Series Horror Films Television News Children’s Television. Avant Garde. Experimental and Innovative works particularly in Art. Picasso Virginia Woolf Public Service Television of European Nations. Postmodernism and Value.
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Postmodern Style in TV • Animated Series • Horror Films • Television News • Children’s Television
AvantGarde • Experimental and Innovative works particularly in Art. • Picasso • Virginia Woolf • Public Service Television of European Nations
Postmodernism and Value The Simpsons • Intertextual Complexity • Self-Awareness • Relevance to fragmented media landscapes
Audiences and Postmodernism • Global distribution of news picture • Use of simple narrative frameworks • Importance of Iconic images • Global network of interconnected television broadcasting
Melodramatic narrative structures of Soap Opera and Romance • Law, Order and Crime are perceived in terms of the codes of television police series
Promotes consumer culture • Integrates global and local cultural meanings • Addresses multiple audiences across different generations • It blurs the boundaries between past and present • Draws on the audience’s inter-textual knowledge of other media texts & brands
Whose Postmodernism? • Feminism • Fragmentary Identities • Jennifer Wicke • Margaret Ferguson
Consumerism and Television • Consumer Culture • Advertisements • Desire for shopping and commodities • Representation of Exotic and foreign places