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References-

Intertextual references-‘Vacuous’ and ‘self-referential jokes’, Jameson

Parsons-there are necessary structuresneeded in society to keep it together

Costume-‘he !lue !oy’, "ittle Joe !onan#a

Modernism-

!road mo$ement of %estern art, architecture anddesign &hich self-consciously rejected the past as amodel for the art of the present, and placed onemphasis on format 'ualities &ithin art&orks andprocesses( In)uenced *y ne& technologies, no longerhad to adhere to strict con$entions(

Discuss why some people are notconvinced by the idea of postmodern

media

Uncool=cool

Chart topping star yet +s pin up girl mise-en-scene

lo&, mello& performance e$en at.laston*ury

o uncool its cool, unexpected and outsideof ‘structures and rules’ that respected(/ot all con$inced

/o*le gun 0ghter shaping young rookieinto lethal killing machine *ut .erman and!lack1’uncool’

2ace real pro*lem of ‘social e$il’ of3merican $ie&s of sla$ery *ut some not

con$inced

ome see futuristic of 0ghting fore'uaity4&hat is right others see use of*ricolage of old references( ‘5is name &as6ing’ and ‘7jango 8nchained’ &ith ‘he!lue !oy’

ome see lo$e story of 7jango and 5ildi(

 

No particular point-that is the point(Jameson

paghetti %estern co&*oy 0lm-yet noco&*oys

 &o main heroes-!lack and .erman

u*$erted meanings-9the medium is

the message: not &hat is said-;c"uhan

family yet, murderer, no mercy(

!he options for an active audience-what is thecorrect answer"

"ayers of reality seen in the "ego mo$ie, ‘real &orld’,‘"ego &orld’ *ut in the "ego mo$ie they *uild-cross-o$er&ith the real &orld( In the real &orld the "ego charactermo$es-not really reality( 1u*stitution, o$erlap of &hatis not expected into expected(

ome not con$inced, see a story not the preferredreading of the moral of fathers and sons4gro&ing up andloosing creati$ity

5yper-reality ele$ator scene, *right lights4slo&action4romance-reminds them they are &atching a 0lm

ome may see relationship *ut hyper-spectator ?Cohen@sees self-re)exi$e

 

D#an$o Unchained

Drive %lac& Mirror

'ana Del Rey

!he 'e$o Movie

Past structures of de0ning acharacter4genre are non-existent in apostmodern text

Com*ination of tradition > immediate past-

 Jencks

Aeject the idea of a negati$e future( %ant toignore the possi*ilities of the ‘doomed’(

 he a*ility to re-create the dead usingtechnology and science

 he controlled use of an indi$idual, &hatthey think4&hat they spend their time