Media blog 2 (Mr Bush)

Marxism and Hegemony 1) The Left is the radical, reforming, or socialist section of a political party or system.  Some of the suggested left wing ideologies promoted by Capital, the Muslim brother who is released and not being associated to terrorism, the illegal women who is capable of working , the banker and his wife are represented as bad and his wife is represented as insufferable and the the Polish man and his wife being compared to Mother Teresa.  2) " the ghastly Roger and Arabella (Toby Jones and Rachael Stirling) went through the same long-drawn-out charade, bidding the rooms of their house goodbye." This quote is true to an extent as the scenes with Roger and Arabella mostly seemed to be them arguing with each other and also leads to their splitting up in on of the the episodes. " Capital started with an intriguing idea: some unknown anarchist was posting ominous cards through the doors in a gentrified London street...  But that concept went nowhere.&

Applying Marxism 1) Marxism suggests that people own their labour and get out the equal amount of product, value and resources however this doesn't happen in society due to the elite or corporations taking advantage to earn more money for themselves. 2) The Apprentice creates the idea that the person who creates the most money will  be the most successful and go the furthest than the other competitors that don't. 3) Examples of TV shows fetishising the working class, Emmerdale, Shameless and Hollyoaks. 4) Show the values of the power elite as beneficial to the mass- example of this would be when the people in the street are waiting and needing help from the police in order to find out who is behind the pictures. Show queries or challenges to the base as meaningless, foolish or anti-social via ‘failed revolt’- example of this would be the African women trying to become a legal immigrant. Show the subdominant position of the masses as a naturalised idea

Capital: Representation questions   "To what extent do the representations in Capital reflect the concerns of modern 21st century London life? [25 marks]" I think that Capital does reflect the concerns of modern 21st century London life to an extent. An example to show this the increase of housing prices which is a concern in the London after the financial crash of the 2007. This repeatedly shown in a pop-up after a scene that shows the housing price of the dwellings that the people reside in continuingly increasing in price which can also be shown in the old women voicing how the houses are now worth millions, this is discussed in the first episode showing that it is an integral theme in the narrative. Another concern of modern 21st century London life is terrorism and radicalisation which is shown in the room mate of one of the three brothers. The idea of radicalisation is first shown by the older brother saying it to the religious brother after him saying a

Capital: Representation. 1) Capital Episode 2 summary:  The events that occur on Episode 2 are that the community are starting to fear the stalker as he starts to do worse things such as mailing mouses to them which eventually leads to them becoming frustrated and annoyed with the police and there lack of effort in solving the identity of the stalker. The African woman is caught and arrested leading to her having a court case, the man she met at the church who also seems to have developed a relationship seems scared and worried that she isn't coming to church anymore. This causes him to go see her making him wanting to help her but she says to not get involved. The old woman introduced in episode 1, her dementia or illness seems to be getting worse and her daughter can't cope  with this revelation leading to her feeling sad. She dies.  The Polish man discovers a suitcase filled with money. The Muslim family meet with the mother of the three brothers as she