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  Independent: British viewers can't get enough of foreign-language dramas Read this  Independent feature on foreign-language dramas . If the website is blocked or forcing you to register  you can access the text of the article here . It features an in-depth interview with Walter Iuzzolino who curates Channel 4's Walter Presents programming. Answer the questions below: 1) What does the article suggest regarding the traditional audience for foreign-language subtitled media? Fifteen years ago, if you'd mentioned to a colleague that you'd spent Saturday night glued to a subtitled European drama, you'd have been quietly declared pretentious, dull and, possibly, a little odd. Skip to today and foreign-language dramas aren't even on-trend, they're fully mainstream.   2) What does Walter Iuzzolino suggest is the key appeal of his 'Walter Presents' shows? 3) The article makes an interesting claim for the popularity of subtitles in the multi-screen age. What

  Media Magazine -  A Postmodern Reimagining of the Past Media Magazine 73 has a feature exploring Deutschland 83 as a postmodern media product. Read ‘Deutschland 83 - A Postmodern Reimagining of the Past’ in MM73  (p18). You'll  find our Media Magazine archive here  - remember you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. Answer the following questions: 1) What were the classic media representations of the Cold War? representations of Cold War-era Germany often fit  a stereotypical binary ‘good vs evil’  The Cold War – the state of tension and  hostility between the Soviet bloc countries  and the West from 1945 to 1990 – has inspired  a series of film and media texts within the spy  genre. 2) Why does Deutschland 83 provide a particularly good example for postmodern analysis?  Despite adhering to many  of the conventions of the  cold-war era spy genre,  Deutschland 83 offers a  refreshing and postmodern  re-imagining  of East and  West German stereotypes.  Chris Harris ex