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TV: Deutschland 83 case study

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  TV: Deutschland 83 case study   Introduction: Reviews and features Read the following reviews and features on  Deutschland 83 : The Guardian - Your next box set: Deutschland 83 The Guardian - Deutschland 83 Pity the Germans don't like it 1) Find one positive aspect and one criticism of  Deutschland 83  in the reviews. Yet as if to make up for such a radical premise, it then backtracks into stereotype. Stasi officers are cruel ideologues who blackmail family members and fake reports for political ends. It’s not all retro-smirking at oatmeal computer hardware and  99 Red Balloons , though (even if the latter is sung at a youthful East German house party as if it is the coolest tune in town). Deutschland 83 is a serious thriller driven by jeopardy of the all-out nuclear kind. Austere-looking East German newsreaders continually pop up against mustard backdrops with updates on the deployment of mid-range  Pershing II  missiles. 2) Why does the second...

Film industry 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). WWW: Good knowledge on csp EBI: Revise PSB 2) Read  the mark scheme for this assessment carefully . Identify at least  one  potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment. 3) On a scale of 1-10 (1 = low, 10 = high), how much revision and preparation did you do for this assessment? You may also want to think here whether you had completed all the original blog tasks from last term before doing the assessment. 5 4) Look at your answer for  Question 2 . Did you manage to write about  three different  strategies and  three different  benefits? It's vital you read the question and follow it exactly. Yes 5) Look at your answer for  Question 3 . Did you follow the question guidance and write about  both  the BBC and commercial broadcasters? What could you have added to this answ...

Marxism and hegemony

  1) Re-read the   Mail Online review of  Capital . Why does it suggest that   Capital   features a left-wing ideology? 2) Choose  three  quotes from the review that are particularly critical of  Capital  and paste them into your blogpost. Do you agree with the criticisms? Why? The review references the show to "Jeremy Corbyns" diary and accuses it of being politically charged. I somewhat agree " That’s not a whodunnit, it’s a cop-out."  " Honestly, you’ll get rid of your family after Christmas faster than this feeble drama departed."  3) What scenes or characters from  Capital  could be read as promoting left-wing ideology? Capital potrays middle class as being inherently bad as a whole, and lower classes as good. 4) What about the other side of the argument - are there any aspects of  Capital  that reinforce right-wing or capitalist viewpoints? As an audience we may feel compelled to sympathise with roger, a mi...