| Post Modern Elements | |
| · Borrowing images from other media | |
| · Represent a variety of realities; represent fragmented realities | |
| · No definitive definition of reality | |
| · Emphasises the signifier (sign) rather than the signified (sign) | |
| · Blurs the boundaries of genre: Bricolage | |
| · Confuses space & time; what seems real & recognisable can become unrecognisable | |
| · Resist the viewer forming a definite interpretation | |
| · Confusing ending | |
| · Style over content; no deeper meaning | |
| · More human than human | |
| · Altered states | |
| · Flattening of affect: no emotional response | |
| · Metafiction: rejection of modern explanations; religion, history ect | |
| · Parody: copying in jest | |
| · Pastiche: copying in tribute | |
| · Self-referentiality : text openly reflects upon own processes | |
| · Simulacra: copies that are replacing ‘real’ artefacts | |
| · Eclectic : effected by a wide range of influences | |
| · Lyotard; takes our beliefs and contradicts them | |
| · Baudrillard; Simulation: unreal becomes more important than what is real | |
| · Baudrillard: We have no sense of the difference between real things & images of them | |
| · Baudrillard: We live in a media dominated world and meanings are mediated for us. Lives gain meaning through consumption and we ‘become’ products | |
| · Baudrillard; Hyperreality: physical manifestation of a world that is not real yet we believe in it | |
| · Rejects the idea that any media text is of greater value than another. All judgements are merely taste. | |
| · Distinction between media and reality has collapsed’ we now live in a ‘reality’ defined by images and representations | |
| · The distinction between reality and the media representation of it becomes blurred | |
| · Reaction to modernism | |
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Post Modern elements
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