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Does this ring any bells….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ImZTwYwCug
POSTMODERNISM Is the fashionable term used to describe
CONTEMPORARY culture, or the very recent CULTURE which we live amongst. We are inhabiting a POSTMODERN WORLD.
The term is a lose one , hard to define because of vagueness about the MODERN era, there is no definite start or point of change when society suddenly became postmodern
The term gradually ‘crept in during the 1980s! Articles and books on postmodernism started to be published from the early 1980s.
Post-modernism is a set of theories which suggests that society is undergoing a radical series of changes where modernism is either: coming to an end or, being rejected by people or, changing into a new order.
Postmodernism it is general the era that follows Modernism
Modernism
Postmodernism
purpose play
design chance
Hierarchyorder
AnarchyConfusion
finished work process, performance
distance participation
creation deconstruction
presence absence
depth surface
Modernism Postmodernism
truth irony
determinacy indeterminacy
Reality Imaginary
interpretation against interpretation
reading misreading
narrative Anti-narrative
elitism Anti-authoritarianism
It started with postmodern architecture
Architects and their grew bored with the restrictive rules of modernism which dictated that form follow function and allowed for no decoration.
Philip Johnston’s tower has a classical greek pediment shape on the top taken from furniture design
They started to make reference to older styles of architecture and develop playful forms
Postmodern fashion Fashion can also be inspired by other cultures and by the past
Katharine Hamnett >
Henry Holland?
Key characteristicsPostmodern style is often characterized by eclecticism, digression, collage, pastiche, and irony.
Postmodern theorists see postmodern art as a conflation or reversal of well-established modernist systems, such as the roles of
artist versus audience, seriousness versus play, or high culture versus kitsch
High Art Low Art/ Popular Culture
Fine art Advertising
Opera Pop music
Ballet Genre Films
Classical Music Television
Classical Literature Pulp fiction or Trashy Novels
Art Cinema Pornography
The breakdown of distinction between high culture and popular culture
Against Elitism Treating ‘low art’ or ‘popular culture’ as if they where high art places
Postmodernism can be broken down into different concepts
1. In groups, you are going to explore and research these different ideas.
2. You are going to look at examples outlined by the teacher
3. You will find your own examples from contemporary media texts
4. You will explain the concept to the class and present your examples
Group 1 to explore Intertextuality and bricolage
Using the text book, read through the explanation of these two postmodern concepts.
You are going to explain how they conforms to this using this example and one other of your own choice.
Search on youtube ‘Weezer Buddy Holly’
Group 2 – Baudrillard and Lyotard
Using the text book, read through the explanation of how Baudrillard conforms to a postmodernist theory.
You are going to explain how simulacrum conforms to this using this example and one other of your own choice.
Search on youtube ‘Black Mirror trailer’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jROLrhQkK78
Is technology enabling us, the audience to create postmodern interpretations of media texts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEDMpsJ5xuU
Is Nikki Minaj postmodern? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDZX4ooRsWs
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