Paper 2 : (Television ) postmodernism in Life on Mars

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.