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What is
Postmodernism?
- An Oxymoron?
- An overused & meaningless term?
- A bunch of nonsense?
- A response (or, responses) to modernism.
Postmodernism
A critical approach to Film
What is
Modernism?
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or
practice.
Modernism explicitly rejects the ideology or realism, and makes use of the
works of the past, through the application of reprise, incorporation, rewriting,
recapitulation, revision and parody in new forms.
The term modernism encompasses the activities and output of those who felt
the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social
organization and daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic,
social, and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world.
Postmodernism
A critical approach to Film
Postmodernism is
therefore
Postmodernism
A critical approach to Film
Postmodernism is
therefore
In Film
Postmodernist films upsets the mainstream
conventions of narrative structure and
characterisation and destroys the audiences
suspension of belief.
Features of postmodern
films
They dont pretend to wholly works, and often draw
attention to the fact they are in fact fictitious. For
instance, characters might stop and talk directly to the
audience.
In Fight Club the movie uses a narrator through out the film who is one
of the main protagonist this is another postmodern concept. This type of
cinematography disrupts the linear sequence of the narrative and
instead creates a circular narrative in which parts of the film are cliff
hangers where the audience does not know whats happening next
mirroring the actions of the main protagonist. Broadcast media bulletins
are used to create suspense and tension. A dark color scheme
connotes to the audience that this film is going to be violent and scary.
This film is a classic example of the postmodernist theory.
Taking Postmodernism
further
Intertextuality
This is when one media text references another
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k
Outkast Mick Jagger Berry
e In POSTMODERNITY, there is
PASTICHE, a blank parody; theres
no sense of a distance from any
norm.
Blue Harvest
Postmodernism in
Society
Confusions over time and space
- 24hr cities
Postmodernism in
Society
Confusions over time and space
Postmodernism in
Society
An emphasis on style at the expense
of substance and contnet
- The visual and stylistic impact becomes more important than
the meaning/message
- Retro/Nostalgia
- Shallow Empty?
Postmodernism in
Society
An emphasis on style at the expense
of substance and contnet
Postmodernism in
Society
The breakdown of a distinction
between high culture (art) and pop
culture
- Postmodernists High and low cultrue are =
One proposed technique for creating these effects involved propelling a high
speed camera along a fixed track with a rocket to capture the action as it
occurred. However, this was discarded as unfeasible, because not only
was the destruction of the camera in the attempt all but inevitable, but the
camera would also be almost impossible to control at such speeds.
Instead, the method used was a technically expanded version of an old
art photography technique known as time-slice photography, in which a
large number of cameras are placed around an object and triggered
nearly simultaneously.
Taking Postmodernism
further
A Postmodern Case Study
How is
Fight Club
postmodern
?
Taking Postmodernism
further
A Postmodern Case Study