In what ways does a comparative study accentuate the distinctive contexts of Frankenstein and Blade Runner? The comparative study of texts‚ allows audiences to investigate the changing nature and interpretation of issues relating to humanity as they are interpreted in different contexts. Context allows audiences to relate to and understand the thoughts‚ decisions and actions of individuals within a text. Context provides the opportunity to develop and shape a new genre or interpret an existing genre
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Existential consumption and irrational desire Richard Elliott University of Oxford‚ Oxford‚ UK If marketing is truly the “ultimate social practice of postmodern consumer culture” (Firat‚ 1993) then it carries the heavy burden of “determining the conditions and meanings of life for the future” (Firat and Venkatesh‚ 1993). Certainly‚ social theory is now focusing on consumption as playing a central role in the way the social world is constructed‚ and it can be argued that marketing is too important
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Terrorist in Falling Man - Sascha Pöhlmann Writers‚ Terrorists‚ and the Masses 6‚500 Weddings and 2‚750 Funerals: Mao II‚ Falling Man‚ and the Mass Effect - Mikko Keskinen Influence and Self-Representation: Don DeLillo’s Artists and Terrorists in Postmodern Mass Society - Leif Grössinger The Art of Terror--the Terror of Art: DeLillo’s Still Life of 9/11‚ Giorgio Morandi‚ Gerhard Richter‚ and Performance Art - Julia Apitzsch Don DeLillo and Johan Grimonprez Grimonprez’s Remix - Eben Wood Dial
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concepts concerning the subject of belonging and not belonging. Both texts emphasise the positive power of a sense of belonging has for an individual and the negative effects created by a sense of isolation or alienation. Strictly Ballroom is a postmodern pastiche‚ a hybridised genre of fairy tail romance which focuses its attention on the gaudy‚ fantastical world of ballroom dancing and the fixated characters that live within it. Luhrmann employs a range of cinematic techniques to create scenes depicting
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Sociology 2XX Critically anlayse a popular culture ‘text’ utlising relevant theories and debates In sociological theory there are many concepts discussed that are utilized in the analyses of society and culture. Some of the main concepts are Postmodernism‚ Historical Materialism‚ Structuralism‚ Interpretive Sociology and Poststructuralism to name a few. These theories are relevant to the research of understanding certain or specific cultural texts. These concepts provide problems and solutions
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The screaming crowds. The hours spent online‚ spreading pictures and information. All these people coming together. Let me introduce you to a fandom. Fandom is a term that sounds like what is is—it refers to all the combined fans of something. It can be a sport‚ hobby‚ or book. It can be very specific‚ down to one show; or wide‚ encompassing all shows in a genre. The fans are closely connected by shared interest. Fandoms have been around for some time‚ but have recently become mainstream. Are you
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A Girl’s Story By David Arnason Basic Content Questions Why does the narrator want to give the heroine blonde hair instead of black hair? 2) What does the narrator make the heroine take off? Consider the effect both for suspense and to foreshadow. 3) Why are biblical names a problem for the narrator? 4) Who is Linda? Who is Greg? 5) To whom does the narrator “speak”? 6) Why does the narrator say that‚ “Dialogue is about the hardest stuff to write”? 7) Linda sits on the riverbank‚ but Michael must
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complicated discussion‚ but one this essay will resolve. The postmodern movement rebels against any type of categorisation‚ as it has many diverse forms in which it is depicted‚ such as film‚ music‚ fashion‚ dance and of course‚ art. Jane Pavitt‚ co-curator of the big autumn exhibition Postmodernism: style and subversion 1970-1990‚ explains that after three years conversing over it‚ the were able to create many different definitions for the postmodern movement. However in its moment‚ it defied categorisation
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Choose a particular media and cultural form or practice. Explain how you might locate your chosen example within a circuit of culture‚ and identify the sort of issues you might raise at each point on the circuit‚ drawing on your knowledge of the questions‚ problems and approaches explored on the module during the year. This illustrative example works around the material explored in the very first session on this module‚ and is designed to provide you with some ideas about how to approach this
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The interpretation of a classical opera as a humorous‚ satirical‚ and wholly grotesque perversion of the genre is something very rarely seen. György Ligeti presents this stylistic humor in his only opera‚ La grand macabre‚ which tells the perplexing story of borderline death and possible destruction of the fictional country of Brueghelland and its citizens. “Mysteries of the Macabre” is a three-part aria found in the second act‚ which features the anxious Chief of Secret Political Police‚ who at
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