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Thursday, 9 June 2011

Barack Obama in Ireland vid

Spotted this in Roy Greenslade's blog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/may/23/barack-obama-ireland
Worth watching as...
  • its postmodern (surely shades of 'Road to Amarillo', not to mention this vid); intertextually rich
  • primarily conceived as a viral vid (tho' also to spark iTunes sales?)
  • interesting from perspective of representation (and you should be thinking carefully of how, consciously or otherwise, you've represented yourselves in terms of regional identity, age, gender, sexuality, social class etc): entirely stereotypical, or perhaps satirising some stereotypes?

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