Lucas' Media Blog

Coon- violent, uneducated, adult male Mammie- overweight, older, black maid, motherly Pickaninny- unkept, unlooked after, uneducated child Minstrel shows was most popular musical stage shows of the early and mid 19th century. It is founded on the comic enactment of racial stereotypes. It featured an exaggerated portrayal of African American music, culture, vernacular english for entertainment. Performers both white and black donned blackface. In these shows, white men blackened their faces with burnt cork to lampoons Blacks, performing songs and skits that sentimentalized slave life on Southern plantations. Blacks were shown as naive buffoons who sang and danced the days away, gobbling "chitlins" stealing the occasional watermelon, and expressing their inexplicable love for "ol' massuh." Minstrelsy was the first example of the way American popular culture would exploit and manipulateAfro-americans and their culture to please and benefit white americans...

Grime originated from the streets of London where youths who wanted to make music and had opinions to voice, no longer fit the garage genre as they became more focused on money and charts. People such as Dizzie Rascal, Kano, D double e, were making music for the fun, not focusing on money. It started being played just in raves on a local scale, when more and more people listened to it and enjoyed it. Police were very strict on these raves and slowed them from thriving. People began to know the voices and the artists decided to began showing videos so that people could associate the voice to a face. The first platform for grime was pirate radio and with a fast rising success rate, record labels identified the potential to capitalise. As some artists got signed many decided that they didn't want to engage in the money focused music side and continued to publicise on their own, making their music and driving it around to shops themselves. At the time there was a lot of aggression from...

EMINEM-WITHOUT ME In the first shot of this music video it shows the behind the scenes of a recording studio, as someones counts down to the beginning of the recording. This immediately demonstrates that this is a somewhat postmodern music video, in that the boundary is broken showing the background of the music video. This makes it obviously clear that the story portrayed in the music video is fiction and this is therefore breaking the boundary of the 4th wall between media product and the audience. Following on from this there is a shot showing a young boy and an animation pops up explaining the situation. The format of the animation reflects that of a traditional comic, this is an inter-textual reference to marvel comics which continues throughout the music video in the same way with animations as well as Eminem's costume imitating Robin. This further supports that this is a postmodern music video due to the entire theme of the music video being based on inter-textual referen...

Postmodern text can be identified by its eclecticism. Erosion of aesthetic and stylistic boundaries- mixing of different styles, genre, and artistic conventions They are designed to be read by a literate audience- exhibiting many traits of intertextuality. Postmodern texts will employ a range of referential techniques- bricolage Postmodernity= breaking of boundaries Theorist- Frederic Jameson Key ideas: Depthlessness Nostalgia/ erosion of history Parody Pastiche Postmodern text can be identified by its eclecticism, demonstrating an erosion of aesthetic and stylistic boundaries. It reflects the pluralistic nature of contemporary culture. Eclecticism in postmodern text exhibits the mixing of different styles, genre, and artistic conventions, including those of modernism. Modernism was about production and consumption, postmodernism emphasizes reproduction and re-consumption, the main implication being that art has become mere repetition and imitation. Modernity is fundamenta...

The purpose of tbe music video is to create excitement through sex sells, by which the music video contains a numher of lightly dresse women in a desirably healthy physical shape. Throughout the musice vdieo, there are clos-ups of stereotypically sexual bodyparts belonging to these women whilst they are moving around in a sexual manner, e.g. when the camera is showing a close-up of a women hips she is thrusting her pelvis. This music video is very voyeuristic as the camera is intruding on a very revealing fitness session, where women aren't wearing much and are in comprimising positions and breaking into sweat. The lyrics of the song repeat “call on me” suggesting that the songs message is the man asking a woman to call on him and the repetition suggests his desperation. This means that the music video complies with the disjuncture theme of Alex Goodwin's theory. This is where the songs meaning is completely ignored in the music video. This is relevant to this music video as ...

1. Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics e.g. stage performance in metal video, dance routine for a boy/girl band. This can go further in that they can aldo link to film genres - Intertxtuality. Many heavy rock songs are influenced by horror films. 2. There is frequently reference to notion of looking and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body. See Robert Palmers addicted to love video and then shania twains man i feel like a woman. This also links to intertextuality. 3. There is a relationship between music and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting). See killer/papa was a rolling stone by george michael 4. The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work. 5. There is often intertextual reference. Audiences enjoy knowing thr “in joke”. California love by Dre is Hype Williams homage to mad max. Not my work 1) A relationship b...