CONTEXTS Flashcards
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Peaky Blinders Context
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- a hybrid-genre (gangster/historical) tv show
- first broadcast September 2013 on BBC 2
- produced by Caryn-Mandabach Productions
- Steven Knight- showrunner for all 6 seasons
- Focus on Shelby’s family who run the eponymous gang in Birmingham 1920s
- Displays the effect of WWII on the working class
- Has won many awards, eg, season 1- Best Director BAFTA award & many others for set and costume design.
- USA, was first distributed by the Weinstein Company then purchased by Netflix- a global audience
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The Bridge Context
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- The Bridge (3 seasons), is a TV Crime Drama that is of Swedish/Danish co-production.
- Hans Rosenfeldt wrote the serial
- SVT1 in Sweden and DR1 in Denmark, BBC4 in UK.
- Nordic Noir genre- melancholic, dimly lit, interest in uncovering the dark underbelly of the world.
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Vogue Context
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- High-end mainstream
- Fashion magazine aimed at women
- Monthly periodical
- Sexual liberation increased acceptance of sex outside of traditional heterosexual relationships.
- 1960’s = introduction of the ‘contraceptive’ pill.
- so men and women becoming more sexually promiscuous- ‘Swinging Sixties’
- strong focus on women becoming independent, career orientated shaping identities on beauty and fashion
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The Big Issue Context
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- independent magazine, meaning the target audience is niche.
- founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in 1991
- ethos goes well beyond achieving consistent profit growth.
- Gives a “hand up” to the homeless to battle poverty
- Vendors buy for 1.25 and sell for 2.50 allowing them to earn a legit income
- Assists vendors with, finances, accommodation, rehab, education and training
- Genre hybrid: Entertaiment+ current affairs (pop culture + SocioPolitical focus)
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KSI Context
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- Blogs popularity- gain notoriety in 1999. The globally successful US TV Show Sex and the City arguably contributed to the popularity,
-1999 (23 blogs) vs 2006 (50 mill)
-2004 word of the year- blog - KSI initially became a youtube star in 2009 via FIFA gameplay, and branched out into vlog style videos,
-channel grew to 3 mill by 2014 and 40 mill by 2022 - KSI as a brand -
-CONTENT CREATOR- JJ Olatunji established KSI via becoming a prosumer on YouTube. Content including friends and family- comedy to create a parasocial relationshop via mode of adress.
-RAP ARTIST- successful recording artist via 2 albums (Dissimulation and All over the place), AOTP debuted at #1 one uk album chart.
-ENTREPRENEUR- most successful business venture = partnership with Logan Paul with the energy drink brand Prime, its net worth is over $10 bill and KSI has 20% share
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Attitude Context
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- British gay lifestyle magazine owned by Stream Publishing Limited
- sold worldwide (to an extent) as both a physical magazine and digitally downloadable app as well as having their own website.
- been crowned the World’s biggest LGBTQ+ media brand and Europe’s best-selling gay magazine.
- by attracting a traditionally alternative audience voia topics like gay-pride, transphobia, LGBTQ world affairs which would relate to audiences experiences.
- Mission to cover many different subjects to destigmatise topics like, sexuality race, human rights etc, ‘Thailand approves latest same-sex marriage bill draft’.
- Demographic- open-minded people, who appreciate, changing idealisations in modern society.
-And a younger audience is who they try to reach as the youth of today are the one’s creating this change - DIgital convergence embedded, article that can be viewed is encouraged to be shared online via the various social media weblinks (FB, X, WhatsApp), promote the editorial philosophy of Attitude’s ideologies, resulting in the positive promotion and importance of equality
