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Read the following reviews and features on  Deutschland 83 : The Guardian - Your next box set: Deutschland 83 Daily Telegraph review The Guardian - Deutschland 83 Pity the Germans don't like it 1) What positive aspects of  Deutschland 83  are highlighted in the reviews? The first positive aspect highlighted in the article was how successful it was; " Deutschland 83’s first episode of eight was the   most-watched foreign-language drama in UK history". Another was the praise that Jonas Nay received for playing an excellent role as Martin within the TV drama series and how his appearance was a great fir the the character; " Martin is superbly played by Jonas Nay, a boyish 25-year-old with an interesting scar above his left eye (following a car accident) that renders him a strikingly singular leading man". The third positive is the amount of views that Deutschland'83 got; " Massive hype only generated 3 million viewers for its co-maker RTL (just ...

Mail Online review of Capital 1) Re-read the  Mail Online review of  Capital . Why does it suggest that  Capital  features a left-wing ideology? The article suggests Capital promotes left-wing ideologies due to it sympathising with illegal immigrants, presenting them as hard-working and not here to claim benefits, presenting Eastern Europeans as saints, etc. Also, through the Banker family, Capital seems to be portraying the idea that middle class people don't seem to hold any true aspects of love, family, and the more emotional, sensitive and intimate pleasures in life; their lives seem to be reserved with money and business, and only those who are lower in the class system seem to understand what the simpler pleasures in life are as they have not been blinded by money (The Kamal family. 2) Choose three quotes from the review that are particularly critical of  Capital  and paste them into your blogpost. Do you agree ...

Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open Factsheet #66: Applying Marxism. Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets - you'll need to save the factsheet to USB or email it to yourself in order to complete this at home. Read the factsheet and answer the following questions: 1) What does Marxism suggest regarding power in society? "Power was held by a minority (the elite or bourgeoisie) who had  access to capital and could use their money and power to  generate more wealth". 2) Why is  The Apprentice  a good example of the media reinforcing capitalist values and ideologies? The apprentice is a good example because the purpose of the TV is too invest large amounts of money into people Alan Sugar decides are able to start up and run a successful business.  The fact that Sugar has all the power  reinforces the ‘superior’ position of the capitalist elite. He has power  as ...

To what extent do the representations in Capital reflect the concerns of modern 21st century London life?  [25 marks] Capital presents a variety of different representations in terms of issues that the audience are able to relate to such as gender, ethnicity, family and immigrants.  Within the first couple of scenes, representations of family and ethnicity are already presented; the first relatable representation is of a Pakistani family who own a corner shop, and they are mistaken for being Indians, ironically by of the main characters who is a white lady; this suggests white people are uneducated when it comes to different ethnicity’s and the stereotype of an Asian family who work together to maintain a shop is presented. However, the typical stereotype of a bad-tempered shop keeper is defied; when Rogers wife comes in to ask if they had any coriander, he kindly offered a free bunch to her without expecting anything in return. This presents them to be very respect...

Notes from class (episode 1) 1) Watch episodes two and three of  Capital  and write a 50-word summary of each. Episode 2; to conclude the second episode of Capital,  Arabella returns after Christmas and seems less concerned about Matya's presence than Roger's decreased bonus, even when Roger takes the nanny to a charity auction and spends almost two thousand pounds on a picture for her. Quentina is taken to a detention centre to await deportation whilst D.I. Mill calls an ineffectual meeting regarding the postcards as now dead rats are being pushed through letter boxes instead . Four months later Petunia dies and daughter Mary calls in quarrelling Polish builders Piotr and Bogdan to renovate the house, Bogdan making a spectacular discovery. Ahmed and is family are not happy when his mother suddenly arrives from Karachi but worse is to come as they are all arrested by armed police. Episode 3; to conlude episode three, a s the police investigation into ...