1. POSTMODERN MEDIA
Applying theory to text

2. What makes a text a postmodern
text?
 Moneysupermarket.com advert – How / why
is this an example of postmodern media

3. What makes a text a postmodern
text?
 Life on Mars
 Ashes to Ashes
 Shrek Forever After
 Once Upon A Time
 Start with titles and work from there

4. The Walking Dead
 Horror drama or western drama?
 Arguably – an update / revision of western
mythology – spreading European style
civilisation across this ‘new world’

5. Generic disguise
 Genre as vehicle for ‘smuggling’ ideas –
Martin Scorsese
 In what ways are Shane and Die Hard similar?

6. Shane

7. Die Hard