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Magazine Media edia agazine Menglish and media centre issue 53M | september 2015 ELECTION 2015 Politics and Protest Kristen Stewart Star Study CATFISHED! TV Drama Podcasting MM MM This magazine is not photocopiable. Why not subscribe to our web package which includes a downloadable and printable PDF of the current issue or encourage your students to take out an additional £12 subscription? Tel 020 73598080 for details. MediaMagazine is Welcome to MediaMagazine 53, and hallo to new readers and a new academic year. published by the English and Media This issue involves lots of politics, prompted of Centre, a non-profit course by the role of the media in May’s General making organisation. Election results. Nick Lacey considers the influence The Centre publishes of the press in determining the majority outcome, while Steph Hendry looks at the history of televised a wide range of electoral debates, and Harry Cunningham explores classroom materials how feasibly a popular TV drama can actually be and runs courses for accused of representing BBC bias. Mark Ramey’s case study of Pussy Riot and teachers. If you’re the ‘commodification’ of protest culture is thought-provoking too; and all these studying English articles are well worth archiving for next Summer’s A2 exams, where they at A Level, look may come in handy. out for emagazine, Elsewhere, you’ll find lots on TV drama, offering interesting takes on also published representation and identity, not least Kathy Oborne’s analysis of the global impact by the Centre. of Downton Abbey, our overview of EastEnders’ 30th anniversary, and a thought- provoking student article on representations of sexuality and lesbianism in US TV series. And Catfish the TV documentary series treads a tightrope between reality TV and fiction – a great read for those studying online and social media. For Film students, the controversial actress Kristen Stewart is the subject The English and Media Centre of an excellent star case study by Roy Stafford, giving us the long overdue 18 Compton Terrace London N1 2UN opportunity to reconsider theories of stardom, celebrity and performance, while Telephone: 020 7359 8080 the blossoming of Kenyan cinema is a good news story for global film study. In Fax: 020 7354 0133 terms of digital forms and technologies, Steve Connolly’s revelatory piece on Email for subscription enquiries: the Podcast Renaissance should whet your appetite, while if you’re a gamer, Ted [email protected] Lamb’s introduction to Let’s Plays raises interesting theoretical questions about Editor: Jenny Grahame the purposes and pleasures of gaming. Copy-editing: Andrew McCallum Finally, our news spread this issue is devoted to a review of our MediaMagazine Additional proofing and copy- Production Competition; we hope you’ll be inspired to enter next year by the editing: Joel Sharples winning entries on the MediaMag home page. And we hope also to see many of Subscriptions manager: Emma Marron you at our other annual event: The MediaMagazine Student Conference, on 5th November – see the box below for details of our sparkling line-up. Design: Sam Sullivan [email protected] Have a good term. Print: S&G Group Cover: Pussy Riot by Igor Mukhin ISSN: 1478-8616 MediaMag Conference 2015 – Thursday 5th November • Bill Thompson: What Has the Internet Ever Done for Me? • Professor Natalie Fenton: Media Power and Life After Leveson • Rob Watson, with Pete Fraser: Film Production Masterclass – Top Tips for Students • Regina Moriarty: Making Murdered By My Boyfriend • Owen Jones: The Media, Democracy and Politics 2 MediaMagazine | September 2015 | english and media centre MM contents The Front Page Kristen, Kristen on the Wall, Cartoon by Goom: 04 The MediaMagazine 25 Who Is the Fairest of 48 Modes of Address Production Awards 2015 Them All? Serial(ising): The The Art of Protest: Roy Stafford reflects on 50 06 changing approaches to acting, Podcast Renaissance Pussy Riot performance and celebrity, Steve Connolly reports on Serial, using the always-interesting an internet podcast sensation Kristen Stewart as a case study in which has led to a whole new theories of stardom. wave of podcasting which might even, one day, make Downton Abbey and someone some money. 30 Collective Identity: Spot(ify) the Difference: Brand Britain? 54 What happens when radical Swift, Bragg and the Maths politics meets the capitalist of Making Money in the establishment? Mark Ramey Music Industry reflects on the story of the punk- So where do you get your music protest group Pussy Riot and its from? And who benefits from your implications for democracy. passions – a streaming service, the artist, or you? You may not have 12 The Press and the Prime thought much about this question Minister: Was It the Spin- in the past, but if you’re studying doctors Wot Won It? the music industry for A Level, it’s time to start. What can we learn about the What exactly is the appeal of media and democracy from the Downton Abbey for UK and global The Rise of Let’s Plays: a experience of the 2015 General audiences, and what can it tell 58 Election? Nick Lacey evaluates us about collective identity and New Genre and Its Fans the role of the national press in representations of Britishness? Let’s Plays – videos which determining the majority outcome Kathy Oborne provides a really document the playthrough of a of the 2015 General Election. useful case study for A2 students. video game via a commentary by the gamer – are rapidly becoming Election 2015 and EastEnders at 30 – a genre in themselves. Ted Lamb 16 the Media: the 35 Technology and the investigates what the growing popularity of Let’s Plays can Televised Debates Soap Opera teach us about genre, audience Steph Hendry analyses the history Caroline Birks explores the 30th and fan theories. and impact of televised electoral birthday ‘live’ EastEnders events debates, and wonders what part to ponder on the future of Out of Africa: What is they might have played in the the soap opera. 61 eventual outcome. Kenyan Cinema? Catfished! 20 The Beeb, the Mail and JKR: 39 Siobhan Flint explores a hugely the Politics of The popular reality TV show which Casual Vacancy exposes the realities behind the online identities we adopt on social media. Is Lesbianism the New There’s more to Kenyan cinema 43 than Out of Africa, argues Maggie Black? Representing Sexual Miranda, in this case study of a Identity in TV Drama thriving new film culture in search of a global audience. An Interview with Jon Snow: Leftist propaganda or a biting 65 Shining a Light on social portrait of Coalition Britain? Dark Corners Harry Cunningham explores Harry Cunningham speaks to the the polarised responses to J. K. BAFTA-winning journalist and Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy, and Student Lauren Fletcher compares legendary anchor of Channel 4 questions whether we should LGBT representations in two News about the role of the media ever read too deeply into the contrasting TV drama series, and in a world plagued by scandal, politics of a text. discovers that sex still sells. corruption and despair. english and media centre | September 2015 | MediaMagazine 3 MM Filmmakers of the future: The MediaMagazine Production Awards 2015 Transport yourself back to the heady days of last summer. It’s Wednesday 8th July Film Openings, judged at BFI Southbank, and the BFI Annual Schools Residency is under way, with 100+ by Ian Wall, Director of students from Lambeth and Tower Hamlets developing a multimedia promenade The Film Space performance. They’re using dance, drama and spoken word, music and film to Film Openings have finally diversified explore ideas about London on film, to tie in with the current BFI Southbank from the conventional stalker and season of the same name and it looks wonderful! For more details of the season, gangster gore-fest genres of the last see http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-press-release- few years, setting up tense narratives, britain-film-bfi-player-national-2015-07-07.pdf often with dystopian or futuristic themes But meanwhile, students, parents and teachers are also gathering, booted and and disturbing twists, skillfully using suited, in the BFI foyer for the MediaMag Production Competition awards. This editing, titling, effects and graphics to article is about them, and one of the highlights of MediaMag’s year. keep the viewer riveted. Judge Ian Wall commented on the difficult balance Every year, your entries to the competition get better and better, both technically between setting up atmosphere and and in terms of imagination and creativity. This year with 160+ entries, from 40 different schools and colleges UK-wide, the quality was so breathtaking that shortlisting was a real challenge, let alone deciding on our winners. It’s interesting year-on-year to see different trends and issues emerging, and the enormous difference it makes seeing your work on the big screen – a different experience altogether, which adds a powerful cinematic impact. Here’s an overview of the judges’ impressions across the range, category by category. Documentary, judged by Mark Reid, BFI Education Documentary still remains under-represented, but we saw some highly individual and beautifully crafted explorations of place, pastimes and passions. All four narrative and creating a coherent shortlisted entries offered entirely different takes on the genre; ‘Pueblo’, Eli sequence which leaves you wanting to Beristain’s evocative film of her grandmother’s recollections of life in her now- know more; he also marvelled at some dying Spanish village, was superbly shot and framed, and a model of (apparent) real technical achievements – amongst simplicity, while Ami Vadi’s ‘Memories’ offered a deeply personal and heartfelt them Latymer’s ‘Payoff’, shooting a montage of reminiscence and meditation.
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