EXAM QUESTION
To what extent can S1 episode 1 of Life on Mars be seen as a postmodernist text ? ( 15 )
Which of the following postmodernist techniques and attitudes does it use , refer to or follow in its narrative , mise-en-scene, performance, visual/audio codes etc. ?
Intertextuality ( explicit specific reference to another media product or genre )
Parody and pastiche ( whole scene or settings in the style of another media product or genre)
Bricolage ( the idea that the entire meaning of a media text is totally created by the fragments and references that make it up)
Irony ( less serious in tone, moral/social issues not explicitly discussed in text)
Ambiguity ( no single meaning or message )
Reflexivity ( drawing attention to itself as a media text , deliberately artificial, breaking the fourth wall)
Hyper reality ( an artificial reality made up of layers of media representations that Baudrillard claimed we are all now living in )
Simulacra ( the artificial objects, people and settings that make up an artificial hyperreality )
Does it also use more traditional established techniques to connect with its audience , such as follow established genre conventions, create original characters, follow a linear narrative etc. ? Briefly summarise these.
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