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  1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). 13-D  www ; q1 is a solid answer that picks out some excellent aspects of the text. This is not far from top-level so our challenge now is developing that in the 25-mark essay questions. ebi ; revise intextuality for q1, in q2 we need to develop our essays planning and structure: well be looking at this in class and in the blog lr task, we also want to try and bring in high level theory to the 25 mark essays. here you could have used gramsci's hegemony to discuss the ideological/political messages in media text. 2) Read  the whole mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Identify at least  one  potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment (even if you got full marks for the question). •q1- Criticisms of Hollywood cinema for the lack of originality in the film industry with reliance on franchises or sequels. Even a film such as

  The Specials - Ghost Town: Blog tasks Background and historical contexts Read  this excellent analysis from The Conversation website of the impact Ghost Town had both musically and visually . Answer the following questions 1)  Why does the writer link the song to cinematic soundtracks and music hall tradition? Formed in 1977 and arguably the most influential band of the UK’s  2 Tone Ska  scene, “Ghost Town”, a skewed ska oddity, was written by Jerry Dammers , The Specials’ keyboardist and released in June 1981. It was their last song before splitting up and reforming as The Special AKA and stayed at the top of the UK charts for three weeks.  It’s an odd, eerie song, nodding to pop convention and sitting wilfully outside of it. It’s included, in passing, in Dorian Lynskey’s beautifully written book on protest songs,  “33 Revolutions Per Minute” , but unlike the band’s “Free Nelson Mandela” does not merit its own chapter.  Perhaps because “Ghost Town” cannot be “placed”. It’s not expli

Wider reading on race and Old Town Road 1) What are the visual cues the article lists as linked to the western genre?  the visual cues associated with what could be classified as  western —cowboy hats, cow prints, rhinestones, and fringed suede jackets. 2) How did the Yeehaw agenda come about?  In September 2018, the trend of black pop-culture figures wearing cowboy garb was dubbed the “Yeehaw Agenda” by Bri Malandro , a Texas-based pop-culture archivist. Her Instagram account, also called @theyeehawagenda, functions as both an archive and celebration of black cowboy aesthetics in popular culture . It’s a treasure trove: You can find anyone from Beyoncé in her Destiny’s Child days wearing a cowboy hat to Bernie Mac in a bolo tie. 3) Why has it been suggested that the black cowboy has been 'erased from American culture'? Wrangling cattle and the riding, training, and keeping of horses are practices that have been mastered by black Americans since the 1800s, but the impact that

  Lil Nas X - Old Town Road: Blog tasks Background and cultural contexts   1) What is the big debate regarding Old Town Road and genre?  Earlier this year,   Billboard removed “Old Town Road” from its country chart, which boosted the rapper’s profile to a wider audience while fueling a debate about what defines country music and who gets to decide. 2) What do you learn about the background of Lil Nas X and Old Town Road from the podcast transcript? “Old Town Road” debuted in the 19th spot on the March 16 edition of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart . But the following week it was gone — having been moved to the Hot Rap Songs chart, where it entered at No. 24. 3) What is the Yeehaw agenda? The yee haw agenda. This woman, Bri Malandro , tweeted about how a lot of black artists are getting interested in sort of the country aesthetic. And the way that Lil Nas X factored into that is, while people were picking up on the good ol’ cowboy/cowgirl aesthetic, his song was circulating on Twitte