media blog 2 mr halsey

1) How does the article define postmodernism in the first page of the article? Modernism is a movement which came to popularity in the ealry part of the 20th century and it is the loss of belief in things which we once placed our trust in. 2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay ' The Death of the Author '? He said that a writers opinions/intentions ect of their own work is no more valid than anyone elses. 3) What is metatextuality? This is when a text makes self reference to itself or makes it clear that it is a text such as "breaking the fourth wall" such as when Deadpool talks to the audience in his monologue scenes for example. 4) What is the repeated phrase on the cartoon on postmodernism on page 28? Postmodernism is a cultural movement that distrusts all established philosophies and frequently experiments with the medium it is presented in. 5) How does postmodernism link to media representations and reality? Hyper reality c...

  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?  One visual clue would be the western styled clothing such as cowboy hats, cow prints, Rhine stones and fringed suede jackets. 2) How did the Yeehaw agenda come about?  The YeeHaw agenda came about when black people started to represent western culture and to prove the fact that roughly 25% of cowboys were black however this is a figure not presented in most western films or prints. 3) Why has it been suggested that the black cowboy has been 'erased from American culture'?  The article states that roughly 25% of cowboys were black and that during the civil war Texas slave owners left cattle wrangling up to the black slaves they purchased while the slave owners fought in battle. This meant that many slaves had become expert cowhands. 4) How has the black...