Homework for Half Term Post Modernism

Half Term Homework piece 1: Reading Comprehension

Objective:

To develop your Independent learning & Academic skills

To prepare an introductory grounding in the concept of Post Modernism

Read through the chapter on Post Modernism from the OCR Handbook attached 

1. What does Post Modernism suggest about the value of high art (eg opera) and popular culture (eg TV)
2. What does Post Modernism suggest about the ideas of truth or reality - how is this linked the the Media?
3. Who were the 2 big thinkers and what concept do their theories share?
4. Give an example of 3 'Grand-narratives' or 'Meta-narratives' (2 will need you be your own not listed in the chapter)
5. What is significant about Disneyland and simulacrum?
6. How is our understanding of the events of 9/11 hyper-real?
7. What is significant about the Matrix as an example of Baudrillards ideas of simulation & hyper-reality?
8. Why are Post-modern elements of The Mighty Boosh ?
9. Why are Post-modern elements of Extras ?
10. Why is Grand Theft Auto Post-modern?
11. Why is the Cadburys Gorilla ad Post-modern?
12. What does FLOW and IMMERSION mean?

Half term Homework piece 2: Written analysis on Modern Modern features

Objective:
To demonstrate your understanding so far of why some texts are described as 'Post-Modern'.


Task:
Choose a 'comtemporary' example (2007-2012) you are familiar with that would be described as Post-Modern. Write a 300 word response and post to this blog as a comment


"Explain why your case study is post-modern, analysing how it constructs meaning through its post-modern features"


Use the class resources to revise apply these terms. 
The powerpoint we used in class 
Intertextuality how it makes texts richer 
Post Modern Aesthetic - some other examples and definition of the terms (bit long though)
Inglorious Basterds - example of how this can be applied


Mark Scheme
Analysis of how the text uses post-modern features - 20
Examples of post-modern features from the Text - 20
Correct Terminology applied - 10

Half Term Homework piece 2: Match up the Terminology

Objective:
To discover definitions of Theoretical Terms to improve grade in exam (10 marks)


Task: 
The mark-scheme rewards you for accurate and precise use of theoretical terms. However, that means you need to understand them very thoroughly. Try matching the theoretical terms with their appropriate definitions. Research the answers online and using the resources to help you

Theoretical Terms 

1. Post-modern 

2. Post-modernity 

3. Parody 

  

4. Pastiche 

5. Hyper-reality 

6. Consumer culture 

7. Simulacrum 

  

8. Cultural capital 

9. Signifier and the signified 

10. Multi-accentuality 

11. Ideology 

12. Hegemony 

Definitions

A To copy something in a humorous and tongue in 

cheek way.  

B A culture and society in which individual and 

collective identity is constructed in material acts of 

economic exchange e.g. shopping 

C The semiotic landscape of a society dominated 

by consumer culture and information technology 

D A copy without an original 

E A historical period in Western culture after the

Second World in which society became dominated 

by information technology 

F The knowledge and information that informs 

people’s cultural consumption in a post-modern 

society 

G The basic units of semiotic analysis. 

H To copy something without humour, irony or 

anything else that communicates difference 

I The dominant way of thinking about society and 

culture enforced by the ruling class. 

J A system of belief or ideas. 

K The collapse of the distinction between the real 

and simulated. 

L The way in which meaning changes according to 

context and over-time. 

Mark Scheme - 12