A Critical Perspective: Postmodernism in our Modern

World

Media texts are constantly_______________ nothing stays the same.

Post- modern media texts can be described as _____________________or
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All the old rules about what is right, normal and typical are up for
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Post modernists are concerned with breaking ____________________ of

__________ ____________.

Give three examples of post-modern media texts:

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Choose one and explain what makes it post-modern:

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Post-modernism accepts that there is no ______________ ____________.

This is because they believe everything the media produces is a
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Someone with a post-modern perspective may say that knowledge is
_____________ or a ___________________.

Post-modernist media texts may reject old ______________values. Can

you think of a contemporary text that does this and how does it reject
it?
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Post-modernism accepts that the world is becoming a _______ ________.

Explain what this means:

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Post-modernism accepts that there is a decline in the belief in science

as a force for ____________. Give an example of a media text that
suggests this ______________________.

BONUS QUESTION: ANSWER THIS CORRECTLY FOR A SWEET:

Post modernism tries to make sense of ______________

________________in the media.

Hyper-reality

Hyper-reality is the _________ _______________to recognise the difference

between the truth/the real world and a representation in the media.
This is called the __________________.
What does the theorist Jean Baudrillard have to say about hyper-
reality?
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Mr Wall says, Media reality is the new reality.

Try and explain how the media and our reality is being blurred and is
blending together (try use an example of a media text or celebrity):

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