Strinati and fotc

Strinati and FOTCIn what was does FOTC fit

with Strinati’s five features of a Post Modern

Text.

The breakdown of the distinction between culture and society - Mediatisation

• Bret and Jermaine as characters and as ‘real’ people

• They express their feeling by singing a song in the style of a famous/well know song. They are using media to express/explain themselves

The breakdown of the distinction between culture and society - Mediatisation

• They themselves are copies of copies (Stand up routine/ BBC Radio Show/ TV show)

• Bret is copied by a tape – What else is not ‘real’ in the music world…..

The breakdown of the distinction between culture and society - Mediatisation

Copying - They are copying music videos (Pet Shop Boys)

Style over Substances

• Brett as the successful business man

Style over Substance• The auditions for the replacement Brett

• “It’s not about talent”

Style over Substance

• Mocking Fan Culture(so in a way mocking the Post modern culture)• Coco only likes Brett whenhe is in band (not even a good band)

Style over Substance

• Talking about ‘hot women’• ‘Girls are attracted to lonely guys’ – this is Dave’s

party….. What about the real lonely guy • “We need to talk about ways of increasing the

Fan base” “You mean Mel?”• The fake intercom

High Culture vs Popular Culture

• The critical response to FOTC• Mixing references – Daf Punk, ABBA, Pet Shop

Boy, Jamiroquai etc• Bricolage (meaning jumbled) refers to the

process of adapting and juxtaposing old and new texts, images, ideas or narratives to produce new meaning

Confusions over time and space

Decline of Meta-Narrative• Traditional story of the struggling artist in New York is

one where they achieve great success but this does not happen here (and that is the whole point)

• Highlights the problems of a capitalist society (which Bret rejects)