assign 1 something postmodern
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Postmodernism lesson 1
L/O:In this lesson you will be able to …..
Introduce to the basic ideas about Postmodernism and consider it's originsAddress basic themes and concepts that make something Postmodern
Consider the wider effects of Postmodernism on yourselfAddress assessment objectives and exam criteria
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Starter
• Post = ?
• Modern = ?
• Ism = ?
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Starter• Post = after
• Modern = ?– Modern generally denotes something that is "up-to-date", "new", or contemporary. (wiki)
• 1.of or pertaining to present and recent time; not ancient or remote: modern city life.
• 2.characteristic of present and recent time; contemporary; not antiquated or obsolete: modern viewpoints.
• 3.of or pertaining to the historical period following the Middle Ages: modern European history.
• 4.of, pertaining to, or characteristic of contemporary styles of art,literature, music, etc., that reject traditionally accepted or sanctioned forms and emphasize individual experimentation and sensibility.
• Ism = ?• a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
• a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form action nouns from verbs ( baptism ); • on this model
, used as a.productive suffix in the formation of nouns denoting action or.practice, state or condition, principles, doctrines, a usage or.characteristic, devotion or adherence, etc. ( criticism; barbarism;Darwinism; despotism; plagiarism; realism; witticism; intellectualism
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What is pomo? (wiki)• Postmodernism is a term that describes the postmodernist movement in the arts,
its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements.
• It is in general the era that follows Modernism. • It frequently serves as an ambiguous overarching term for skeptical interpretations
of culture, literature, art, philosophy, economics, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism.
• It is often associated with deconstruction and post-structuralism because its usage as a term gained significant popularity at the same time as twentieth-century post
structural thought.
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ISM’s before postmoderISM
Ism's: A History Artistic/Cultural Movements (17th-
21st Century)
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Ism's: A History Artistic/Cultural Movements (17th-21st Century)
BAROQUE
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Ism's: A History Artistic/Cultural Movements (17th-21st Century)
ROMANTIC
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Ism's: A History Artistic/Cultural Movements (17th-21st Century)
REALISM
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Ism's: A History Artistic/Cultural Movements (17th-21st Century)
MODERN
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Ism's: A History Artistic/Cultural Movements (17th-21st Century)
POSTMODERN
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Some Key points
• Inability to create anything new • Experimentation with existing forms and
conventions • Loss of the "real"• General pessimism and lack of purpose• Technology increasing important in social
interaction
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What makes something Postmodern?
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Generic Hybridisation• Put simply this is when a text
mixes the elements of two or more genres together
• Example: “Shaun of the Dead”• Suggests that you cannot
create anything new anymore?
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Hybridisation• When more than one thing is mixed
with another thing • i.e. ‘technological convergence’ such
as a smart phone is a product of many different types of technology merged together
• i.e. periscope is like skype + texting + facebook etc
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Bricolage
• Bricolage is related to hybridity…• When a hybrid product develops it’s own set of
conventions
• i.e. REALITY TV SHOWS is a product of….(doc+game show+soap) to form new meaning/conventions
• It has it’s own set of conventions
• i.e. ‘zombie films’ is a well known subgenre with familiar conventions of it’s own that are distinctive from other genres
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Intertextuality • This is when a text makes deliberate references to other media texts by stealing bits of it
• Example: • “The Simpsons”
(Sopranos) &• (Clockwork
Orange)
• Possibly suggests that we constantly repeat rather than create new things?
• Intertextuality is the shaping of texts' meanings by other texts. It can refer to an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another.
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Intertextuality
A text’s reference to other texts.
This is the shaping of texts' meanings by other texts.
It can refer to an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another.
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Intertextuality
Pastiche
ParodyHomage
Satire
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Pastiche• A pastiche is a work of art, literature, film, music or architecture
that closely imitates the work of a previous artist, usually distinguished from parody in the sense that it celebrates rather than mocks the work it imitates.
• A medley of various ingredients... Denotes a technique using a generally light hearted, tongue-in-cheek imitation of another’s style. Although it is jocular (humorous), it is respectful (unlike parody).
• Alternately, a pastiche may be a hodge-podge of parts derived from the original work of others.
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• Pastiche is prominent in popular culture. • Many genre pieces, particularly in fantasy, are essentially pastiches.• George Lucas’ Star Wars series is often considered to be a pastiche of
traditional science fiction television serials or radio shows.• They can be seen as a pastiche of 1930s science fiction cliffhanger serials
like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. Some would argue that it blends elements of samurai, American western, and sci-fi film genres.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8KVG8j68I flashhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjNlyWxwCac buck rogers
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The films of Quentin Tarantino are often described as pastiches, with their mixing and blurring of generic conventions and boundaries.
Kill Bill (2003) pays tribute to (or perhaps imitates) numerous genres;
(next slide)
-though some say his films are more of a homage.
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Kung fu / martial arts
& Japanese anime
Western films
-pulp novels/comics(themes of adventure/horror)
blaxploitation(70’s)
grindhouse(venues that showed exploitation films….showed pornographic/high sex, slasher horror or dubbed martial arts films)
Kill Bill (2003) pays tribute to (or perhaps imitates) numerous genres;
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Kung fu / martial arts
& Japanese anime
Western films
blaxploitation(70’s)
grindhouse(venues that showed exploitation films….showed pornographic/high sex, slasher horror or dubbed martial arts films)
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Homage
• Mixing and blurring of generic conventions and boundaries.
• Film or director pays tribute (some believe imitates) to previous distinctive styles/genres
• Homage is generally used to mean any public show of respect to someone to whom you feel indebted (worthy of dedication). In this sense, a reference within a creative work to someone who greatly influenced the artist would be a homage
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Homage example
• Johnathan Glazer’s music video for Blur’s The Universal paid homage to Stanley Kubrick’s film Clockwork Orange).
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Homage Example• ChinatownWhen Nicholas has
discovered the secret of Sandford and is trying to get Danny to help him take the village down, Danny says
"Forget it Nicholas, It's Sandford"
• a reference to Chinatown's "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown"
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Parody
• A parody (also called spoof), is an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise
an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of satiric or ironic imitation.
• Most of the humour in recent parodies of film genres is based on our familiarity with formula plots, conventions and characters.
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Duchamp's parody of the Mona Lisa adds a goatee
and moustache.
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. Original painting from
circa 1503 – 1507.
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Parody in Duchamp (mona lisa)• Marcel Duchamp's Dadaist painting LHOOQ parodies DaVinci's Mona Lisa
by marring it with a goatee and moustache. In keeping with his Dadist practices, which called artistic conventions and aesthetic assumptions into question, DuChamp’s paired his visual parody with a low pun; in French, "L.H.O.O.Q." sounds like an idiom describing women who sexually tease men: "elle a chaud au cul," or "she is hot in the ass."
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Parody Examples• Films like Scary Movie, Not Another Teen Movie and Team America: World Police first build on
our habitual expectations of their genre and then violate them. Because each of these films incorporates the plot, characters & conventions of dozens of films, they can be helpful in studying the genres they parody.
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Satire is a technique in which a target is held up for merciless ridicule. Because satire often combines anger and humour it can be profoundly disturbing - because it is essentially ironic & sarcastic - it is often misunderstood.
Although satire is usually witty, and often very funny, the primary purpose of satire is not primarily humour but criticism of an individual or a group in a witty manner.
Satire
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Intertextuality
Pastiche(IMITATE)
Parody(MOCK/criticise)
Homage(TRIBUTE)
Satire(Criticise)
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Self Reflexivity• This is when a “text” points
out to the audience that it is a “text”.
• This level of self awareness points to how “texts” are constructed
• Where a text knows it's a text and draws attention to it's structure, production and/or conventions to the audience. In doing so, inverts (reverses) itself reflecting its own reality rather than an outside one.
I feel like I’ve been wearing the same
clothes for 10 Years!
• “Example: “The Simpsons”
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Self Reflexivity example
• CATFISH
• Makes it known it is making the show (you can see filming/cameraman, NEV talks about it on camera) …..a lot of direct address etc etc.
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Juxtaposition• This is when a collection of opposing elements
all mix together to try and make sense.• Example: “The Mighty Boosh”
This can often reflect a confusing a world where things don’t make any sense
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Hyperreality• WHEN LINE BETWEEN WHAT IS REAL AND
SIMULATION OF REAL IS BLURRED
• Because of all the self- reflexivity, intertextuality etc, texts become detached from anything real. This creates a hyperreal state where reality is altered and detached from anything “real”
• It is when a reality is made which is based on a reality which is not real – Think of ‘virtual realities’ or realities in video
games……think of representation of men/women – usually ideological and unrealistic
• Example: “The Matrix”
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High art/cultureLow art/culture
LOW HIGHLow culture is a derogatory term for popular culture ; everything in society that has mass appeal.Low culture is a term for some forms of popular culture that that have mass appeal.
High culture is a term referring to the "best of breed" (from some elitist viewpoint) cultural products. What falls in this category is defined by the most powerful sections of society, i.e. its social, political, economic and intellectual elite.
Take away mealsGossip magazinesBest selling books such as ‘50 shades of Grey’Sports such as basketball and footballBanksy
ShakespeareClassic art………mona lisa……Picasso…….Classic literatureClassic music ………..such as the OperaTheatre
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Hybrids of high/low
• The line between high and low art is very blurred in postmodernism
Producing text like this:
Why?
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Nothing new• Think of the film industry • You will realise most films are
– Remakes (the hills have eyes)– Adaptations (from books/plays ‘Girl with dragon tattoo’ or adapted to be different =
‘Maleficient’)– Franchise (series – Indiana Jones)– Reboots (the Amazing Spiderman, Godzilla)– Parody/pastiche/homage
• On your phone look up each category (film/TV/music video) – Remakes – Adaptations – Franchise – Reboots – Parody/pastiche/homage
What films are COMPLETELY NEW/ORIGINAL? Are they as successful?
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• Can you think of two genres that have not been mixed already?
• What/who decides what works well
together?
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Other pomo features
• (Look on your handout)
• Non linear narratives• Artificialness • Dystopian narratives (& pessimism) • Non realism• Voyeurism & panopticanisation
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Postmodernism WIKI
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism
• If you want to do more reading……
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Summary of POMO Key terms• Nothing new/nothing original • Non linear narratives• High/low art hybrids• Self reflexivity• Artificialness • Dystopian narratives (& pessimism) • Non realism• Hyperreality• Voyerism & panopticanisation• Nostalgia • Intertextuality
– Homage– Pastiche– Parody
• Hybridisation/hybrids• Bricolage• Juxtaposition
GREEN(confident)
AMBER(somewhat confident)
RED(not confident)
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Homework (assign #1)Set: Thur Sept 15 / Due: Mon Sept 19
• A) revise all key terms
• B) Assignment 1: Something Postmodern• Create a presentation on something postmodern (a text) (film, art, TV,
advertising, music video, etc)• Must have at least 2-3 key terms• The newer, the better – nothing more than 3 years old• The more key terms you can apply, the better (an A/B would have at least
5+)• Nothing from the sheet or this presentation!