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ALAN PARTRIDGE – ‘KNOWING ME KNOWING

YOU’Audience sheetSecond episodeCharacter profile

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On The Hour 1991 Knowing Me Knowing You 1992 I’m Alan Partridge 1997 Anglian Lives 2003 Mid Morning Matters 2010 In June 2012 Steve Coogan announced

that the movie will begin filming on 7 January 2013 for release on 16 August 2013 .

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Today• Finish episode 2 of KMKY• Character profile of Alan Partridge• Foundations: Chris Morris - Cake• Legacy of the show - Mid Morning Matters• Homework:BBC Research – have ready for after

half termExam question completionHave Evaluation ready for 1st March.

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Character Profile of Alan Partridge

Attention to detail? Rule following? Morals? How does he respond to difference in

looks, gender, minorities? Why is it claimed he ‘s a racist? What

would he say in response? (Answers in A2 handbook)

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Homework: Choose one – for Monday 25th Feb

Exam questions: • 1: To what extent are your texts typical of their genre?

• 2: Explore the ways in which your chosen texts reinforce or challenge typical representations of gender.

• 3: Explore the different representations of either women or ethnicity in your chosen texts.

• 4: How do your chosen texts attract their audiences?

 

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KMKY: Related Industry: Armando Iannucci (one of the creators of

KMKY); on what’s wrong with the BBC TV comedy Industry. Take notes as to his reasons. We’ll be debating a connected issue on Thurs.

Armando Iannucci Guardian Podcast James Murdoch

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The BBC and its future. 1: James Murdoch 2009 on the BBC 2: Armando Iannucci interviewed by The

Guardian – Comedy at the BBC. 3: Iannucci’s Bafta speech 2012. 4: Episode 4 of Knowing Me Knowing You. 5: Tomorrow – have BBC info’ ready for

Blog update. 6: Thursday will be a debate. (Handouts)

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BBC – Regulations/ Positives & Negatives

1: James Murdoch 2009 on the BBC 2: Armando Iannucci interviewed by The Guardian – Comedy at the BBC. 3: Iannucci’s Bafta speech 2012.

Main Points NegativeCommissioners’ too much power/ focus on ratings (compared to HBO – The Wire)BBC – is just state sponsored mediaOfcom bias to BBC – Ofcom said BskyB should sell its premium content for lessBBC - Pointless – so many channels now should be scaled back.BBC - “Authoritarian”BBC – wont publish pay of top starsBBC- Anti commercial attitudesBBC – funded buy a hypothecated tax (license fee)BBC – Manipulates “Lonely planet and banana market”

Main points positiveBBC – is admired around the world, diversity of broadcasters & variety of funding methodsBBC- Free from adverts

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DebateShould the licence fee be scrapped?

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MEDIA MANIPULATIONTV and Alan Partridge

Marshall McLuchan

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Steve Coogan Louise Mensch on newspapers and The Daily Mail

Hacked Off is a campaign group that wants to see regulation of the newspaper industry. Steve Coogan is one of its supporters. It seems Alan Partridge isn't so sure about Hacked Off and their new book though... (NOTES ON ALAN)

http://hackinginquiry.org/mediareleases/response-to-alan-partridges-email-round-robin-attacking-hacked-off/

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BBC TOP GEAR – Racist?!

Jeremy Clarkson – Mexican’s and the ‘N Word’

Alan on Comedy - It's a diverse, eclectic group of people with one common denominator: they could all defend and justify their comedy from a moral standpoint.

They are laughing at hypocrisy, human frailty, narrow-mindedness. They mock pomposity and arrogance.

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If I say anything remotely racist or sexist as Alan Partridge, for example, the joke is abundantly clear.

We are laughing at a lack of judgment and ignorance.

With Top Gear it is three rich, middle-aged men laughing at poor Mexicans and using the ‘N word’. Brave, groundbreaking stuff, eh?There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them. Put simply, in comedy, as in life, we ought to think before we speak. This wasn't one of those occasions. In fact, the comments were about as funny as a cold sweat followed by shooting pains down the left arm. In fact, if I can borrow from the Wildean wit of Richard Hammond, the comic approach was "lazy", "feckless" and "flatulent". – Is this Alan Partridge?

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Alan Partridge feedback on exam question:

What point is Coogan making with Alan Partridge?

Exposing a right wing conservatism hiding behind an easy-going ‘slick’ façade. By so doing he exposes the process behind one aspect of the media – and so elicits a certain post-modern outlook on the chat show format.

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Alan represents AP: In your testimony in the phone-hacking scandal involving

the News of the World (among others, Coogan has been a vocal critic of British tabloids, which he says have reported unethically about his personal life), you called one editor "Partridgesque." It's an interesting intersection of your media parody and real life.

Coogan: It is true Alan represents, in some ways, that kind of lazy thinking. He does represent what we call the Little Englander. What Napoleon described as "Your nation of shopkeepers." That sort of myopic, slightly philistine mentality, which is what historically differentiated the British from our European cousins. Germans, the French and especially the Italians were slightly more aware of high art than the British who are a bit more meat and potatoes. Alan is the apotheosis of that. It's that idea of being on the wrong side of cool.

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Global Appeal AP: Partridge is enormously popular in Britain

but a very cult thing in America. What are your expectations for the film in the U.S.? (AlphaPapa)

Coogan: I don't think it's going to break any box-office records, but I want it to not disappoint those people who already know who he is. I hope it's on the radar of people. I don't know how it's going to go down in Kansas. But I don't mind about that. I'd rather do something that stays true to its roots than water down the DNA of the character to appeal to Americans. Link to Audiences!

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Network 1976: ‘I’m as Mad as Hell!’

What’s the connection between Howard Beale’s speech and the Alan Partridge character?

What about the Steve Coogan appearance on Newsnight?

NetworkNetwork 2

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The irony is that this outcry is seen as ‘honest’ when in fact the Network TV begin to market this Howard Beale character; his outcry of honest anger is manipulated by the TV.

Alan Partridge is a comical version of this, but Coogan the comic is quite serious in his viewpoint.

Press regulation – ‘hacked off’ – use of audience knowing his persona

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‘I’m Alan Partridge’ Representational – What is offensive? Audience – How are they maintained from

KMKY? Genre - subversion?

Next lesson – McLuhan and Manipulation

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Media manipulation – short answer

Name two current examples of media manipulation and how they demonstrate the use of hot/cold media.

Read ‘Lenin’s Tomb’

Jean Charles de Menezes&Oscar Pistorious

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Long question: 30 marks – 40 minutes.

To what extent is the Media believable? Comment on:

1: Specific detailed examples2: Use of Theory3: Examples of Parody

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Those who missed yesterday… Read the handout on Marshall McLuhan

and Marxism Use the two examples given in the short

answer Apply the above to the question Apply what you’ve seen of Steve

Coogan’s creation to the question.

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MANIPULATION OF THE MEDIA 2Application of theory - Marshall

McLuhan

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‘…after the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes the Metropolitan Police put out a number of statements that simply weren’t true: he jumped the barrier, he was wearing a suspicious device, he challenged the police, he looked like Hussein Osman’. (Lenin’s Tomb)

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These claims were recycled through public forums and consequently remained in people’s minds even after they were disproved.

Most of us believed them because the press told us - but less and less press is accountable (Alan Partridge’s point – ‘Hacked Off’/ Press regulation needs to be tighter), and twitter and social media is thoroughly unaccountable (No real regulator!).

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A similar occurrence has been the recent case of Oscar Pistorious.

Initially reported as a ‘tragic accident’ involving an Olympic gold medalist, it quickly became a murder inquiry as the details became clear. The trail continues.

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The process of learning is no longer by book, by reading. In the electronic age it will be by TV, film, radio (1960s-80s) by Internet, instantaneous.

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"Hot" and "cool" media (McLuhan) McLuhan also stated that different media invite different degrees of

participation on the part of a person who chooses to consume a medium. Some media, like the movies, were "hot"—that is, they enhance one single

sense, in this case vision, in such a manner that a person does not need to exert much effort in filling in the details of a movie image.

McLuhan contrasted this with "cool" TV, which he claimed requires more effort on the part of the viewer to determine meaning, and comics, which due to their minimal presentation of visual detail require a high degree of effort to fill in details that the cartoonist may have intended to portray.

A movie is thus said by McLuhan to be "hot", intensifying one single sense "high definition", demanding a viewer's attention, and a comic book to be "cool" and "low definition", requiring much more conscious participation by the reader to extract value.

"Any hot medium allows of less participation than a cool one, as a lecture makes for less participation than a seminar, and a book for less than a dialogue.

Cool media, on the other hand, are usually, but not always, those that provide little involvement with substantial stimulus.

Is TV creating an illiterate society?

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Key Theory ‘The Medium is the Message’ (McLuhan).

But it is not what is being transmitted that is important, it is the medium by which it is transmitted. The Printing Press did not result in the global spread of Christianity, but we could print and read.

Examples – Hitler would not have rose to power if TV was available. On seeing him, visually he didn’t look like the ‘Aryan’ race he was on about. On radio his message was powerful.

During the Nixon/Kennedy elections in 1960’s, some people watched on TV or listened to debates on Radio. It was often claimed those who watched the debate on TV thought Nixon had won and those who listened on radio thought Kennedy won!

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The dominant factor of any art form is the medium employed - TV, radio - all creates it’s own environment.

Any medium creates a new atmosphere, a new environment which works upon the whole man, the whole society. That is the Message - the social change. But the Content is never the message - The Content is always the old Medium.

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For example…

TV, when it first broadcast, would transmit theatre and comedy acts - from the stage.

Think about this in terms of the Internet…What did we transmit to start with?

Words and Hyperlinks

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But this is not all that he talked about.

This is an interview with college students - 4 mins in:

Castro (Cuban President)used TV instead of the vote.

Satellites change our behaviour (worldTV) No point in Schools

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Global Village Village = Communicate to each other, listen, talk, ask

questions. The developments in technology means we are

becoming more of a global village. Global Village = We can communicate all over the world

Radio/TV – Not so much we can prehaps talk to people in the room or call some one.

Internet – Yes, we can communicate all over the world. Would Egypt be able to over throw the government

without the internet? Would I be able to complain about something and get a

campaign going without a blog?

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The Global Village (4-16 mins +23 mins 26 mins)

How does he explain the death of school? University Professors - Big Business? Man is becoming more like the Hunter. We are back to a Tribal Identity. No more History because…? Electricity means we now have everything

at once.

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Listen to what Marshall McLuhan has to say about the Media – and read what is written in the article (Lenin’s Tomb) – note the links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvRMpS-aGLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVX5m7P0Zsg