Exam Review Case Studies

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Post Modern Media (Case studies from your unit the test should be ok, use them in the semester exam.)
  • The Bad Guys - 2022 - Universal Pictures - Intertextuality 
    • Pastiche: 
      • The diner scene before the heist (Pulp Fiction 1994)
      • Dance battle scene at Gala (Pulp Fiction 1994)
      • Flash cards introduction (Suicide Squad 2016) 
      • The heist montages (Ocean's 11 2001)
    • Self Reflexivity:
      • Wolf narrates the story at the start and the end. He talks to the camera and no one seems to know there's a 4th wall but him.
  • What We Do In The Shadows - 2019 - 20th Television - Hyper Reality (Mockumentary) 
    • Hyper Reality:
      • Is a mockumentary, The show is set as a documentary
      • Similar to The Office (Dry humor about vampires) 
      • The characters know they're in a documentary (Self referential) 
      • They play/commit into the bit really hard the audience feels like it's a real documentary 
      • What if? Vampires lived among us. It's a surreal and possible enough concept that it's easy to think about. 

  • Harry Potter: Wizards Unite - 2019 - WB Games - Augmented Reality
  • The Sims 4? - Created in 2014 (Updates alot even now)
    • People are obssesed with this game
    • It's a life simulation? Idk if that counts


How the media influences audiences (audience theories, one theory per paragraph)

  • Reception Theory
  • Cultivation Theory
    • The Pandemic when it first hit Wuhan
      • News outlets focusing on the fact the virus is "Chinese"
      • Asian hate rising because many people believed east asians are spreading the virus (thanks fox news)

  • Representation Theory 
    • What If? Mile Morales was Thor 
      • Really bad representation of Black culture
      • Asgard is his "hood" yikes 
      • "By Asgard's fade"
      • Not received well by actual black people 
      • The writer didn't know much about black people so they resulted to sterotypes?

  • Social Learning
    • People wanna repeat what they see in the media. 
      • TikTok Challenges causing alot of harm to people (Chicken and Nyquil??) 


How the media controls how we connect with the world (Talk more about New Media) 
  • The Internet allows us to connect to people around the world. 
  • Fandom 
    • Encanto 2021 
    • Fandoms are stronger than ever 
    • The Artist fandom of Encanto has a strong community (Making Madrigal Ocs)

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