Postmodernism is dead
'A new exhibition signals the end of postmodernism. But what was it? And what comes next? '
17th September 2012
This week i have found a Youtube clip which summarises what postmodernism is and how it differs between different theorists. It also explains how the theorists see things differently from others.
24th September 2012
Today i have looked into what makes a film postmodern. I have specifically found films that include hyperreality:
The Matrix Trilogy - Cyberpunk twist where the world is in fact a simulated prison for humanity run by intelligent machine agents
The Thirteenth Floor - Murder mystery set in a virtual recreation of 1930's Los Angeles
Total Recall - Adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story with the ambiguous premise that the whole experience was an implanted memory
eXistenZ - A designer gets lost in her own virtual reality game, full of Kafkaesque references and hallucinations
The Truman Show - A sense that the world is not quite right leads Truman to find that he is the star of an expansive reality TV hoax
Kick-Ass - Comic book geeks turned vigilantes make their superhero fantasies a bloody reality in this dark action-comedy
Inception - A team of con-men and architects loses touch with reality as they delve ever deeper into their targets' dreams
The Thirteenth Floor - Murder mystery set in a virtual recreation of 1930's Los Angeles
Total Recall - Adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story with the ambiguous premise that the whole experience was an implanted memory
eXistenZ - A designer gets lost in her own virtual reality game, full of Kafkaesque references and hallucinations
The Truman Show - A sense that the world is not quite right leads Truman to find that he is the star of an expansive reality TV hoax
Kick-Ass - Comic book geeks turned vigilantes make their superhero fantasies a bloody reality in this dark action-comedy
Inception - A team of con-men and architects loses touch with reality as they delve ever deeper into their targets' dreams
1st October 2012
I have found an interesting article which discusses where postmodern originated and where exactly it came from. It considers many different views:
8th October 2012
This week i have looked into postmodern films that include a lot of pastiche. They are as follows:
Pulp Fiction - Quirky tribute to old Hollywood crime dramas and "Pulp" magazines, filled with numerous pop culture references
Jackie Brown - Tarantino's spin on "blaxploitation" action flicks of the 1970's that manages to reinvent Pam Grier and her co-stars
Kill Bill, Volume 1 - Stylized fusion and tribute of Hong Kong action flicks and spaghetti Westerns, filled with exaggerated stereotypes
Scream - A postmodern slasher movie, where the killer and his victims knowingly play out the clich?d plots of classic horror films
Scary Movie - Low brow, third order simulacra is a pastiche of other pastiches (Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer)
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark - Campy cult comedy that follows a vampire TV hostess as fate brings her to suburbia
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Tongue-in-cheek horror/comedy that follows a suburban high school student and vampire hunter
This is Spinal Tap - Mockumentary about a fictitious British band on their American comeback tour
Austin Powers - Mock Bond film pays homage to the popular culture of the Swinging 60's, British Invasion, and ridiculous Spy flicks
Jackie Brown - Tarantino's spin on "blaxploitation" action flicks of the 1970's that manages to reinvent Pam Grier and her co-stars
Kill Bill, Volume 1 - Stylized fusion and tribute of Hong Kong action flicks and spaghetti Westerns, filled with exaggerated stereotypes
Scream - A postmodern slasher movie, where the killer and his victims knowingly play out the clich?d plots of classic horror films
Scary Movie - Low brow, third order simulacra is a pastiche of other pastiches (Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer)
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark - Campy cult comedy that follows a vampire TV hostess as fate brings her to suburbia
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Tongue-in-cheek horror/comedy that follows a suburban high school student and vampire hunter
This is Spinal Tap - Mockumentary about a fictitious British band on their American comeback tour
Austin Powers - Mock Bond film pays homage to the popular culture of the Swinging 60's, British Invasion, and ridiculous Spy flicks
This week i have found an article based on the postmodern film Blade Runner and talking about how they might be making a sequal. It dicuss' how Ridley Scott and the screen writer for Balde Runner will once again be reunited.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/18/ridley-scott-reunited-blade-runner-writer
22nd October 2012
This week i have looked into film postmodernity: How does postmodernist film challenge the conventions of traditional narrative cinema? The link below takes you to a Q&A website in which people are discussing the topic:
http://www.enotes.com/cinema/discuss/how-does-postmodernist-film-challenge-convent-91257
29th Ocober 2012
Over the half term, i visited the everyman cinema where i watched Skyfall. It was interesting to see how the different experience changes the atmosphere in the cinema and how a different group of people visit this type of cinema. I thought it was better value for money compared to Odeon.
5th November 2012
This week i looked into different films coming out next year. Many of these were sequals continuing films that had already been produced. Some examples of these are:
12th November 2012
This week i looked into Pulp Fiction and how it is postmodern. This links well with my group case study and is seen as one of the most postmodern films around. I have found a small article which talks about how its postmodern E.G incredulity towards metanarratives.
http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/Articles-Summer03/AllenPulpFict.html
19th November 2012
This week i have picked my own case study which is on the Scream films. Therefore i have found some extra information about the film to help me when it comes to writing it in my exam:
http://www.enotes.com/cinema/discuss/how-does-postmodernist-film-challenge-convent-91257
29th Ocober 2012
Over the half term, i visited the everyman cinema where i watched Skyfall. It was interesting to see how the different experience changes the atmosphere in the cinema and how a different group of people visit this type of cinema. I thought it was better value for money compared to Odeon.
5th November 2012
This week i looked into different films coming out next year. Many of these were sequals continuing films that had already been produced. Some examples of these are:
- The Hunger Games; catching fire
- Iron Man 3
- Star Trek into darkness
- The Hobbit
12th November 2012
This week i looked into Pulp Fiction and how it is postmodern. This links well with my group case study and is seen as one of the most postmodern films around. I have found a small article which talks about how its postmodern E.G incredulity towards metanarratives.
http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/Articles-Summer03/AllenPulpFict.html
19th November 2012
This week i have picked my own case study which is on the Scream films. Therefore i have found some extra information about the film to help me when it comes to writing it in my exam:
26th November 2012
Today i found a sildeshare that is specific to our course and talks about what you need to know and key information for each section in the paper. This will be useful for when i come to do my revision...
Postmodernism from anniapple
3rd December 2012
Today i have looked into postmodern music videos as this also links with the coursework side of the course. This slideshare i have found is a quick summary of some postmodern videos and gives you an idea of what to look out for in videos and the features commonly used that makes them postmodern.
Postmodernism history of music videos music video’s from kerrymay
10th December 2012
This week i looked up the song Material Girl by Madonna on Wikipedia to get some background information on the song as i have chosen this for my music video case study. This helped me get a better understanding of what the video was about and what Madonna tried to create.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_Girl
17th December 2012
This week i looked into the new film Looper as it has had many good reviews and has also been said to be a very postmodern film. I looked it up on IMDb and also numerous review sites to see how postmodern it was.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/
6th January 2013
This week i started looking at revising over the things we have learnt since the beginning . Because of this, i looked on the OED for definitions of postmodernism, to see how i can summaries the term best when writing an introduction in my essays.
13th January 2013
We have now started to look into postmodern television shows. We have been doing group case studies where i looked at The Mighty Boosh. We all had a hand out to look at which helped me write my case study and explain why it is postmodern.
Mighty boosh and postmodernism copy from petefrasers
20th January 2013
Today i found an article based around The Mighty Boosh and it talked about how Noel Fielding hasn't given up on the show. I thought this gave me a good background knowledge of the show and the actors in it.
http://www.nme.com/news/the-mighty-boosh/61766
26th January 2013
This week i have found an article about the 'death of postmodernism'. This will be helpful for the exam as we have to talk about postmodernism in the past and the future.
http://philosophynow.org/issues/58/The_Death_of_Postmodernism_And_Beyond
2nd February 2013
20th January 2013
Today i found an article based around The Mighty Boosh and it talked about how Noel Fielding hasn't given up on the show. I thought this gave me a good background knowledge of the show and the actors in it.
http://www.nme.com/news/the-mighty-boosh/61766
26th January 2013
This week i have found an article about the 'death of postmodernism'. This will be helpful for the exam as we have to talk about postmodernism in the past and the future.
http://philosophynow.org/issues/58/The_Death_of_Postmodernism_And_Beyond
2nd February 2013
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