Pearl and Dean - business entrance

Great for exhibition and marketing issues in case studies. This is an excellent site for gaining an overview of these areas, too. Explore "Audience," Planning and Buying," etc. and look over their graphics. You can also take advantage of the "Advanced Search" link to find information on audiences/demographics, etc. for past releases. Don't forget to tick the box for "include past releases."

http://business.pearlanddean.com/

When is a remake not a remake?

Dr. Kermode asks the pertinent questions of a range of films: "when is a remake not a remake but a re-interpretation of the original source material (the novel, etc.)

An AS Case Study on "Kick Ass"

Thanks to the young fellow who produced this case study and to Mr Smith to pointing me towards it. Scroll down to find Stephen's Prezis!
http://stephenharelcmedia.blogspot.com/

A Case Study Exemplar for DNA Films

 http://bromsgroveg322b.blogspot.com/2010/05/case-studies-2-dna-films.html   
.This is an interesting, well researched case study

Katy Perry's "Hot and Cold" music video - a fun text to analyse for its post modern features

Find a decent check list on what makes a media text post modern and have fun!


Although the focus of the "analysis" below only touches on some of the video's post modern features, there are still some useful points to be discovered here:
http://www.slideshare.net/lollymorris/hot-n-cold-textual-analysis

Has Post Modernism Been Killed by The Web?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/15/postmodernism-cutting-edge-to-museum

A taste:

"This is the essence of postmodernism: the idea that there is no essence, that we're moving through a world of signs and wonders, where everything has been done before and is just lying around as cultural wreckage, waiting to be reused, combined in new and unusual ways. Nothing is direct, nothing is new. Everything is already mediated. The real, whatever that might be, is unavailable. It's an exhilarating world, but uncanny too. You look around at your beautiful house and your beautiful wife and you ask yourself, like the narrator of the Talking Heads song: 'Well, how did I get here?" After that, it's only a short step to deciding that this is not your beautiful house and your beautiful wife at all. The world of signs is fast, liquid, delirious, disposable. Clever people approach it with scepticism. Sincerity is out. Irony is in. And style. If modernism was about substance, about serious design solving serious problems, postmodernism was all manner and swagger and stance."

The Guardian's map of Murdoch's power updated on Twitpic

Guardian's map of Murdoch's power updated on Twitpic