Kaya's media blog 2

  Independent: British viewers can't get enough of foreign-language dramas: 1) What does the article suggest regarding the traditional audience for foreign-language subtitled media? Fifteen years ago, if you'd mentioned to a colleague that you'd spent Saturday night glued to a subtitled European drama, you'd have been quietly declared pretentious, dull and, possibly, a little odd. Skip to today and foreign-language dramas aren't even on-trend, they're fully mainstream. Now we are as likely to discuss the latest Danish thriller over a morning flat white at our desks as we are a new season on HBO. 2) What does Walter Iuzzolino suggest is the key appeal of his 'Walter Presents' shows? The channels were "restaurants who had put a special on the board".  Walter Presents makes the specials board the main offering – so you can't play safe with the televisual equivalent of a cottage pie. 3) The article makes an interesting claim for the popularity

  Media Magazine -  A Postmodern Reimagining of the Past: 'Deutschland 83 - A Postmodern Reimagining of the Past’ in MM73  (p18) 1) What were the classic media representations of the Cold War? Representations of Cold War-era Germany often fit  a stereotypical binary ‘good vs evil’  The Cold War – the state of tension and  hostility between the Soviet bloc countries  and the West from 1945 to 1990 – has inspired  a series of film and media texts within the spy  genre. These texts often present the East and  West as binary opposites through codes and  conventions. 2) Why does Deutschland 83 provide a particularly good example for postmodern analysis?   Postmodernism is characterised by  the self-conscious use of historical styles and conventions,  a mixing of different artistic styles and media, including  the playful use of intertextuality, blending of fact, fiction  and genre hybridisation, pastiche, parody and irony. So, for  Media Studies students Deutschland 83 is a particularly