Ishmeet Mr Halsey media coursework 2

TV assessment LR 1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). /29 WWW: EBI: 2) Read  the whole mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Identify at least  one  potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment (even if you got full marks for the question). Q1--  The poster arguably provides a good example of pastiche: media products that imitate the style of another text, artist or time period. Although an argument can be made that Kingsman: The Secret Service is a parody (there are definitely suggestions of comedy) the poster as a whole asks to be taken seriously. In a parody, audiences would likely expect a tagline that confirms the comic nature of the film. The only text appearing here is: ‘From the director of X Men: First Class’ which would suggest the film is trying to attract an audience looking for serious, action/...

Postcolonial theory: blog tasks Wider reading on race and Old Town Road Read  this W Magazine deep dive on the Yeehaw agenda  and answer the following questions:  1) What are the visual cues the article lists as linked to the western genre?  " You’ve probably seen an uptick in cowboy hats and knee-high leather boots on your feed.  Of course, the visual cues associated with what could be classified as Western -  cowboy hats, cow prints, rhinestones, and fringed suede jackets " 2) How did the Yeehaw agenda come about?  In September 2018, the trend of black pop-culture figures wearing cowboy garb was dubbed the “Yeehaw Agenda” by Bri Malandro,  a Texas-based pop-culture archivist. 3) Why has it been suggested that the black cowboy has been 'erased from American culture'?  The imagery associated with Americana has been overwhelmingly white, so much so that the Studio Museum in Harlem even held a "Black Cowboy" exhibition  two years ago, feat...

Lil Nas X - Old Town Road: Blog tasks Background and cultural contexts Read  this Vox feature and podcast transcript on Lil Nas X and Old Town Road . Make sure you read the whole thing - including the podcast transcript - then answer the following questions:  1) What is the big debate regarding Old Town Road and genre? There is a big debate over whether the music video Old Town Road should be classified as country music as Billboards had removed it from the countries chart. 2) What do you learn about the background of Lil Nas X and Old Town Road from the podcast transcript? He is a 20-year-old rapper from Atlanta. Technically his birth name is Montero Hill, but he has been calling himself “Lil Nas X” for several years now. And last year he joined SoundCloud, as many people do. And by the end of the year in December he released a song called “Old Town Road.”  He bought a beat that had this sort of country-sounding instrumental to it. And he said he was living at home feeli...