Postmodern media can be controversial for several reasons: - A lack of originality and overuse of similar plots, characters, and conventions can dissatisfy audiences seeking new experiences. Many films, TV shows, video games, and other media reuse familiar tropes. - Hyperreal portrayals of beauty and sexuality in some media can make audiences feel inadequate and undermine their ability to distinguish reality from fiction. This is controversial from an ideological perspective. - Certain audiences may react negatively to pastiche, remixing, and borrowing elements from other works without sufficient original contributions of their own. However, complete originality is impossible given that all creative works are inspired by previous works to some degree.

1. How is postmodern media considered controversial?
-what issues would audiences have?
-What specific/niche audiences might have a problem with postmodernism?
-controversy with terms?
-controversy with case studies?
-controversies in ‘everything is a remix’?
write down bullet points for basic essay plan
nothing new/original is controversial because lack of originality
-sam smith & robin thicke
-films (action) - v similar plots/characters etc & parodies (films) reboots/remakes/
-tie in term bricolage/hybridity ..pastiche
-video games - same every year
-TV reality tv shows - too similar every year (same character types)
-it’s not possible to be 100% original
-everything has inspiration from soemthing else
-multiple discovery’ - theory = ferguson (everything is a remix)
-how genre exists (conventions)
-but a lot of texts are ‘original’ and successful - ‘human centipede’
-audience - pleasing audiences (link in audience theory?) - its a business! secure way to
make money....(but some audiences don’t)
hyperreality - hyperbeauty and hypersexuality is controversial because ....ideology makes
audiences feel inadequate and clouds judgement of what’s real/not real (baurillard theory)
(grand narratives - stereotypes/dominanat ideology)
-kim kardashian meme (copied)
-nicki minaj/barbie girl
-dating sites and social network (linked with focault theory of panopticanisation)
-advertising (elnett/gucci)
-charlie brooker - the editing video (non linear) adjust and form representation
-audiences reacting against hyperbeauty and beauty standards: this girl can, like a girl,
dove, - discuss the issues here
-link in representation
-fat acceptance / body shaming stuff
black mirror
-dystopian** (modern technology has it’s enslaved us) - flattening of effect !!! (guy who is
obsessed with unblocking and the guys who watch the screens at beginning when girl kills
him - we could argue because they are ‘watching’ they become desensitized to serious
issues like death/abuse etc)
-voyeurism/panopticanisation**
-intertextuality - to social media
-non linear narrative