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PostmodernismChrissie Bishop
Paparazzi – Lady Gaga
+PASTICHE An artistic work in a style that imitates that of another
work, artist or period. This is self-conscious imitation.
In the Paparazzi video, there are generic conventions of a ‘Golden Age’ Hollywood film of which Lady Gaga is the leading lady.
There are also several narrative and stylistic similarities and intertextual references to Sunset Boulevard (1950).
+INTERTEXTUALITY
One media text referring to another.
In the Paparazzi video, there is a blurring of binary opposites as Lady Gaga is seen as a humanoid (referencing Fembot, Metropolis).
+REFERENCING POPULAR CULTURE
Such as Minnie Mouse
+HITCHCOCK HOMAGE
Makes reference to the film ‘Vertigo’
The use of icy, blonde ‘femme fatale’ character is also a hallmark of a Hitchcock film.
+GENDER BOUNDARIES
The paparazzi video plays around with gender boundaries a lot as Lady Gaga is portrayed to be a strong, confident and dominant woman.
+BLURRING OF FICTION AND REALITY
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