POMO Essay 3

Q. Explain why the idea of 'postmodern media' might be considered controversial.

Create a detailed plan listing your texts and specific examples 

This is the essay structure you could 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 postmodern media theory.

Write your essay

1. You MUST refer to  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

Answer in class - period 1 14th March