•  RE-IMAGINING, PASTICHE, PARODY, COPY, BRICOLAGE

• helps us understand the times we are currently in
• REFERENTIAL – references itself all the time – seeing the same thing over and over (the movie – the main character refers to himself constantly, through his tattoos)

pastiche is a work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist ( movie is a pastiche)

parody is a work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony

Intertextuality: surface signs, gestures & play

• movie has preoccupation with visual style
• as things are surface signs, gestures & play, theres a worry theres no meter-narrative (the big question/ overall big structure)

BRICOLAGE – ‘involves the rearrangment and juxtaposition of previously unconnected signs to produce new codes of meaning’ – Barker & Jane – momento – shows us scenes we have scene before

postmodernism suggests – ‘no longer able to distinguish fiction from reality’. whats real whats not? – momento – suggests notes are unreliable (post modernism) unsure on whats real)

feeds comsumerous culture – post modernism: surfaces and style become the most important defining features.