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Editorial the Centre Publishes a Wide Range of Classroom Materials and Runs We Had No Idea When We Chose Our Mediamag Themes for 2009 – Courses for Teachers MM MediaMagazine is published by the English and Media Centre, a non-profit making organisation. editorial The Centre publishes a wide range of classroom materials and runs We had no idea when we chose our MediaMag themes for 2009 – courses for teachers. If you’re 2010 exactly what we’d end up with, but we certainly hit a winner studying English at A Level, look out with the Reality theme for this issue. We’ve been inundated with for emagazine, also published by articles, ideas and case studies, covering a fantastic range of the Centre. approaches to and definitions of the topic, so this issue is a real The English and Media Centre treasure trove. Indeed, we have so many goodies we have provided 18 Compton Terrace a special Online Reality supplement – see page 5 for details. London N1 2UN Telephone: 020 7359 8080 There’s too much packed into the print magazine to mention everything in detail, Fax: 020 7354 0133 but here are some highlights: a superb case study of the Guardian’s online presence, Email for subscription enquiries: which will feed directly into your work whatever spec you’re following; an extended [email protected] interview with Professor Annette Hill; a post-modern look at Top Gear; Desperate Romantics; the political realism of The West Wing; representations of the wars in Managing Editor: Michael Simons Iraq and Afghanistan; the best (or worst, depending on where you’re coming from) Editor: Jenny Grahame of Extreme Reality programming; a media teacher’s experience as a reality show Editorial assistant/admin: participant ... and online, Adam Curtis, the voice of Big Brother, Ledger and Phoenix, Rebecca Scambler hyper-reality, ‘being normal’, and much much more. Design: Sam Sullivan & Jack Freeman Have you been following Pete Fraser’s weekly media blog on our website? If not, Artwork production: Sparkloop you should; so far, in four short weeks, he’s covered the anthropology of the web, the Print: S&G Group amazing music videos of Corin Hardy, the launch of the controversial Call of Duty: ISSN: 1478-8616 Modern Warfare 2 and the debates around it, and the strange but seductive sounds Cover image: from Desperate Romantics of Portico Quartet and their bizarre wok-like instrument – all lavishly illustrated © BBC, 2009 with video clips and suggestions from Pete about ways of using the material in your studies. And there’ll be more every week. Expand your horizons while imbibing the wisdom of a Chief Examiner! All we need now is for some of you to respond, add comments, or suggest new topics. How to subscribe If your school does not yet subscribe to the MediaMag website, perhaps this Four issues a year, published is the time to exercise a little pester power. Not only can you access the afore- September, December, late February mentioned Reality supplement and Pete’s blog, there’s also video from Annette and late April. Hill, and in the New Year there will be further MediaMagClips and presentations on Reality TV and how to make the best music videos. And as a belated Christmas Centre print-only subscription: present for your teachers, by the end of January there will also be a special £29.95 download of teaching resources on Reality TV – so spread the word. 2 year option: £49.90 Have a good break and a Happy New Year from all at MediaMag. Centre website package: £79.95 includes print magazine, full website access and an online PDF version of the current issue. 2 year option: £139.90 Additional subscriptions for students, teachers or the library can be added to either the print-only subscription or the website package for £10 a year. MediaMagazine website MediaMagArchive on the MediaMagazine This magazine is not to be photocopied. Why not subscribe website (www.mediamagazine.org.uk) gives to our web package which includes a downloadable and you access to all past articles published in MediaMagazine. There are two ways of getting printable PDF of the current issue or encourage your access to the MediaMagazine website: students to take out their own £10 subscription? 1. Centre plus 10 or more student subs. (For full details, see www.mediamagazine.org.uk) 2. Centre website package: £79.95 2 MediaMagazine | December 2009 | english and media centre MM contents Front Page News Goody and Boyle: E Pluribus Unum: Recent news, views, reviews and a tale of two (real) political reality and 04 previews. 24 women Steph Hendry 46 The West Wing How Reality goes online considers two contrasting reality authentically does this much- loved series represent the US Our special online reality stars and the role played of supplement. audiences and of old and new political environment? 05 media in their lives. The real world of Is this real? James Rose the newspaper Watching you, explores the ‘truth’ behind the industry: the watching me: 49 horror mockumentary. 06 breaking cinema’s Guardian online Neil 27 Paddison provides the essential 4th wall resource for OCR’s G322, an How to explore the conventions e-media case study, or an of realism through anti-realist institutional perspective. techniques. Reality bites: documentary in 10 the 21st century Faking it: a guide Carly Sandy explores the ways to the American documentary forms have simulacrum Where’s the adapted to the changing media 53 ‘reality’ in American Reality TV landscape. Hollywood make- up techniques shows – and how can Baudrillard Reality TV: an help us understand it? revealed Our regular interview with 30 cartoon, from Goom. Is reality becoming 14 Annette Hill more real? The rise MediaMagazine interviews Diary of a freaky 56 and rise of UGC Sara the Professor of Media at eater Media lecturer Pete Mills evaluates the power of Westminster University and 31 Turner describes his real-life the citizen journalist and user- Reality TV expert. experiences as a participant in generated content. BBC3’s food-phobia reality show. Hyper-reality and the Digital 59 Renaissance Stephen Hill argues that digital technologies can enhance, rather than undermine, our humanity. Xtreme reality: a sadistic future? Postmodern or past 62 Richard Smith surveys some of it? Masculinity and the more extreme examples of The context of Top Gear An analysis of the conflict: media 35 reality TV, and asks what they tell representations of enduring macho appeal of this us about audiences and ethics. 19 massively popular BBC brand. war A comprehensive view of recent film and TV fiction from Truth and realism in John Fitzgerald. Steven Spielberg’s 39 Amistad Why did this powerful anti-slavery film fail to match the success of Schindler’s List? Gareth Calway investigates. Desperate Romantics: The acceptable face 43 modernising the of torture? The case classic mini-series 65 for classification The relationship between art Should explicit images of torture and celebrity explored through a be part of our mainstream surprisingly modern approach to viewing experience? Vanessa the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Raison argues for new forms of classification. english and media centre | December 2009 | MediaMagazine 3 front page news Past realities making and distributing – present films; and even enter relevance occasional competitions, some offering cash prizes The news has been and potential TV screenings. described as some kind of Once such opportunities eternal soap-opera which were limited to film school you pick up on halfway students and professionals, through the narrative – but in our (arguably) more which is why it’s often so democratic world there’s bewildering. Well, now you no reason why your film can get some back-story. illustrating an extraordinary On this day – the day I am life, an unusual lifestyle amount of interest in all en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ writing this – in 1985, the YouTube gets its or curiosity you’ve come things Sherlockian – so Michael_Wearing) OJ Simpson trial – probably groove back across couldn’t make the clearly its marketing will who also directed and the biggest celebrity drama Following major digital grade. Find out more at: also be something to produced the original. of the decade – ended, rights crises, YouTube has www.4docs.org.uk/ monitor and scrutinise: http://en.wikipedia.org/ with the star declared not announced the return to www.imdb.com/title/ wiki/Edge_of_Darkness_ guilty of the murder of his its ‘platform’ of music from Our island story tt0988045 (2010_film) ex-wife, Nicole. In 1952, artists signed to the Warner The UK Film Council • 8th January – The Road: • 5th February – The tea rationing ended, and Music Group. The deal is recently launched Stories What a way to begin 2010 Princess and The Frog: in 1944 the siege of the based upon Warner being We Tell Ourselves: The – apocalypse, cannibalism Will the girl sling him Warsaw ghetto came to able to recover income from Cultural Impact of UK Film and unmitigated misery against a wall to effect the its bleak end. All this and YouTube via advertising 1946-2006. This timely adapted from the Cormac necessary transformation more is on offer at the BBC’s and also ‘monetising’ the and stimulating report McCarthy novel. Before from amphibian to eligible ‘On This Day’ site where downloads people make. confirms that film has been viewing it, read the young royal? That’s the you can go for curiosity or To check on this and one of the most powerful article by Paul Harris original Brothers Grimm to find fantastic ‘pegs’ for other news from Google cultural and social agents who looks at the current version of the story, but articles or news stories you (YouTube’s owners) see: of the last 100 years. Taking preoccupation with ‘end Disney are notorious for may be planning for your www.google.co.uk/press/ 200 iconic films from the of the world’ films: http:// sweetening the original school newspapers or radio pressreleases.html past six decades, it traces www.guardian.co.uk/ earthy, violent folk tales broadcasts.
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