Postmodern Television
Postmodern Style in TV Animated Series Horror Films Television News Children’s Television
Avant Garde Experimental and Innovative works particularly in Art. Picasso Virginia Woolf Public Service Television of European Nations
Postmodernism and Value The Simpsons Intertextual Complexity Self-Awareness Relevance to fragmented media landscapes
Audiences and Postmodernism Global distribution of news picture Use of simple narrative frameworks Importance of Iconic images Global network of interconnected television broadcasting
Melodramatic narrative structures of Soap Opera and Romance Law, Order and Crime are perceived in terms of the codes of television police series
Postmodernism and Globalization
Promotes consumer culture Integrates global and local cultural meanings Addresses multiple audiences across different generations It blurs the boundaries between past and present Draws on the audience’s inter-textual knowledge of other media texts & brands
Whose Postmodernism? Feminism Fragmentary Identities Jennifer Wicke Margaret Ferguson
Consumerism and Television Consumer Culture Advertisements Desire for shopping and commodities Representation of Exotic and foreign places