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THE DREAD AND MEDIA CRAZE OF POSTMODERNISM IN STEELS SILENT NIGHT A CULTURAL STUDY CRITIQUE

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).02      10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).02      Published : Mar 2023

The Dread and Media Craze of Postmodernism in Steel's Silent Night: A Cultural Study Critique

    This study is about postmodern dread as present in Danielle Steel’s novel Silent Night (2019). This is the latest novel by Steel that has an emotional and gripping story that involves its reader from the first till the last word and the ray of light against all odds. Moreover, it is a story of resilience and family integration. The selected text Silent Night was interpreted with an insight taken from cultural studies. The theorist for this study is a famous Caribbean cultural theorist Stuart Hall. For this study Hall's ideas of popular culture and media, culture were taken for insight. These two ideas were simultaneously exploited for data interpretation. The primary text Silent Nights are fundamentally about the postmodern dread of technology along with the media craze and its use by the characters in the novel. He presents his model of encoding/decoding that deals with the reproduction of cultures by media. Hall’s framework in turn helps illuminate important characteristics of how journalism is ascribed meaning in a digital landscape.

    Postmodernism, Dread, Popular Culture, Media Culture and Craze, Freedom, Fame, Reality, Circuitry, Manipulation
    (1) Tariq Usman
    University of Mianwali, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Waqar Ahmad
    University of Haripur, Haripur, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Farooq Ahmad
    University of Haripur, Haripur, KP, Pakistan.
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    APA : Usman, T., Ahmad, W., & Ahmad, F. (2023). The Dread and Media Craze of Postmodernism in Steel's Silent Night: A Cultural Study Critique. Global Language Review, VIII(I), 11-21. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).02
    CHICAGO : Usman, Tariq, Waqar Ahmad, and Farooq Ahmad. 2023. "The Dread and Media Craze of Postmodernism in Steel's Silent Night: A Cultural Study Critique." Global Language Review, VIII (I): 11-21 doi: 10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).02
    HARVARD : USMAN, T., AHMAD, W. & AHMAD, F. 2023. The Dread and Media Craze of Postmodernism in Steel's Silent Night: A Cultural Study Critique. Global Language Review, VIII, 11-21.
    MHRA : Usman, Tariq, Waqar Ahmad, and Farooq Ahmad. 2023. "The Dread and Media Craze of Postmodernism in Steel's Silent Night: A Cultural Study Critique." Global Language Review, VIII: 11-21
    MLA : Usman, Tariq, Waqar Ahmad, and Farooq Ahmad. "The Dread and Media Craze of Postmodernism in Steel's Silent Night: A Cultural Study Critique." Global Language Review, VIII.I (2023): 11-21 Print.
    OXFORD : Usman, Tariq, Ahmad, Waqar, and Ahmad, Farooq (2023), "The Dread and Media Craze of Postmodernism in Steel's Silent Night: A Cultural Study Critique", Global Language Review, VIII (I), 11-21
    TURABIAN : Usman, Tariq, Waqar Ahmad, and Farooq Ahmad. "The Dread and Media Craze of Postmodernism in Steel's Silent Night: A Cultural Study Critique." Global Language Review VIII, no. I (2023): 11-21. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).02