'Banality with a beat': Dennis Potter and the paradox of popular music

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Screenwriter and playwright Dennis Potter incorporated popular music and themes of popular culture in his work in an effort to show the decreasing differences between high culture and mass culture in modern society. Potter often created nostalgic scenes highlighted with popular music or had actors lip-synch to pre-recorded songs to contrast modern cultural themes with those of the past and to demonstrate the artificiality of mass culture entertainment. Potter's work is considered part of the postmodern popular culture which he so often attempted to subvert.

Criticism and interpretation, Popular music, Potter, Dennis

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Political advertising: Why is it so boring?

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The analysis of Party Election Broadcasts (PEBs) in the UK over two general elections, according to a scheme that elicits both the informational content and its aesthetic and emotional appeals, is presented. The content analysis of UK PEBs revealed that information content is their biggest virtue and there was strikingly little attempt to engage audience interest through use of genre or innovative narrative structure, and pace Labour, little recognition of the emotional intelligence of viewers.

Political advertising

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"Taking our personal lives seriously": intimacy, continuity and memory in the television drama serial

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Issues concering the manner in which television dramatic series are able to portray personal lives and political issues are examined, focusing on critical arguments that television portrays the personal at the expense of the historical and political, and answers to that argument that indicate television dramatic series portray the seriousness of personal lives and can deepen one's understanding of history.

Television broadcasting industry, History, Television programs, Soap operas, Television

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