Easter break task

Create a post about your favourite postmodern media text. 
It should include:

1. Why you consider it to be postmodern
2. What you like about it
3. As much relevant media terminology as possible

Here's one of mine - The Wire - more of a comment on our postmodern society than postmodern in its construction. Compelling viewing, fascinating narrative structure - called a 'visual novel' by its creator David Simon. 

Here's what Simon has to say about it from this article...


"But instead of the old gods, The Wire is a Greek tragedy in which the postmodern institutions are the Olympian forces. It’s the police department, or the drug economy, or the political structures, or the school administration, or the macroeconomic forces that are throwing the lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no decent reason. In much of television, and in a good deal of our stage drama, individuals are often portrayed as rising above institutions to achieve catharsis. In this drama, the institutions always prove larger, and those characters with hubris enough to challenge the postmodern construct of American empire are invariably mocked, marginalized, or crushed. Greek tragedy for the new millennium, so to speak. Because so much of television is about providing catharsis and redemption and the triumph of character, a drama in which postmodern institutions trump individuality and morality and justice seems different in some ways, I think."

If you fancy some challenging, brilliantly scripted, thought provoking and intelligent drama then give it a try. Just make sure you give it time to learn the local slang. Truly outstanding television and it gets better and better as the series progresses. Opening from Series one below...

So what is 'the postmodern construct of American empire'? Discuss...