Media coursework Khaterah

1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). www- Q1 is excellent: top level and not far off full marks ( not an easy question either!) The challenge  now is to match that level in the longer essay question. EBI- Question focus is the key issue in Q2. You have lots of historical context  but say how the CSPs represent these events and whether it constructs an ideological position. See the exemplar answer for more on this. 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- I should have included how t he poster is an excellent example of bricolage: the juxtaposing of old and new texts, images, ideas and narratives to create new meanings. Q2- In capital there is seen to be a n egative representations of the lives...

Background and historical contexts Read  this excellent analysis from The Conversation website of the impact Ghost Town had both musically and visually . Answer the following questions 1)  Why does the writer link the song to cinematic soundtracks and music hall tradition? It has a nod to  cinematic  soundtrack and music hall traditions whilst reflecting  engendering anxiety as it was written in  E♭. 2) What subcultures did 2 Tone emerge from in the late 1970s? It emerged from the subculture of Mod and Punk in the late 1970s. 3) What social contexts are discussed regarding the UK in 1981? In 1981,  England was hit by recession and away from rural Skinhead nights,  riots  were breaking out across its urban areas. Deprived, forgotten, run down and angry, these were places where young people, black and white, erupted. 4) Cultural critic Mark Fisher describes the video as ‘eerie’. What do you think is 'eerie' about the Ghost Town video? The ...

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? This included  cowboy hats, cow prints, rhinestones, and fringed suede jackets.   2) How did the Yeehaw agenda come about?  There was a trend in  September  2018 where black pop culture figures were seen wearing cowboy  attire . It was named the "Yeehaw Agenda" by Bri Malandro 3) Why has it been suggested that the black cowboy has been 'erased from American culture'?  As any idea  associated  with America has been overly white  erasing  any  existence  of black cowboys. 4) How has the black cowboy aesthetic been reflected by the fashion industry? There was a "Black Cowboy" exhibition that the studio museum in Harlem held as well a run way for Telfar in fall 2019 New York fashion. 5) Read the section o...

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? Lil Nas X is a  20-year-old rapper from Atlanta, his birth name is Montero Hill, but he has been calling himself “Lil Nas X” for several years now. By the end of the year on December 3rd 2018 he released a song called “Old Town Road.”  He was able to buy a beat that had country-sounding instrumental to it. The song came from how he was said he was living at home feeling very lonely, feeling like a lonely cowboy, and he decided to...