How media products reflect historical issues and events, e.g. through the specific era or time period in which a product is set or an era, time period or historical event that the product refers to.
Economic:
The business and financial system in which media producers operate.
How media products reflect their economic context through production, financial and technological opportunities and constraints. This may include the impact of production budgets on media products, differences between production budgets for different producers, and sources of funding.
Political:
The way in which media products can reflect and construct political attitudes, including how media products can reflect, reinterpret, amplify and satirise political views, systems and institutions.
The way in which power is used or is achieved in a country or society.
Social:
The relationship between media producers and the society within which they operate, including the social make-up of producers and audiences.
The way in which media products reflect and construct social attitudes, and portray social changes, conflicts, anxieties and inequalities including the influence of changes in gender roles, of gender, racial and ethnic inequalities, and social attitudes to sexualities.
So how does this apply to Deutschland '83? What examples could you find in the episode Quantum Leap to illustrate these different contextual concerns? Examples that you must find in Deutschland '83 need to focus on how the programme is influenced by historical contexts through intertextual references and how the programme reflects historical issues and events. To help you do this, you need to complete the historical context research task below.
Research Task: research the historical context of the TV Drama by finding out about:
- The Cold War and who the political dispute involved/was between;
- How long it lasted;
- How it affected everything life for the residents of the countries it involved;
- How Germany was divided;
- The difference in culture/society between West and East Germany;
- The NATO exercise 'Able Archer'
Create yourself a fact sheet including this information and anything else of relevance you discover in your search. Bring your fact sheet to the lesson.
Ext Task: You could look into how closely the programme depicts context realistically by reading this. You may also want to consider the relevance of the story in today's contemporary culture by reading this.
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