POMO Question 1

Why are some media products described as 'postmodern'? [50 marks]

1. Decide upon your opinion. Can you express it clearly in 20 words?
2. Create a detailed plan listing your texts and specific examples 

 This is the essay structure you should always follow:

• OPINION
• PAST
• PRESENT
• FUTURE
• CONCLUDE

The skills are always the same:

POINT - EVIDENCE - THEORY - LINK TO QUESTION

The kinds of thing you might use as case studies include:

• How post-modern media relate to genre and narrative
• post-modern cinema,
• interactive media,
• music video,
• advertising,
• post-modern audience theories,
• parody and bricolage in media texts or a range of other applications of post-modern media theory.

Write your essay

1. You MUST refer to at least TWO different media
2. You MUST refer to past, present and future (with the emphasis on the present- contemporary examples from the past five years)
3. refer to critical/theoretical positions