Theoretical idea that helps us to understand the times we are living in now and what we are doing now. Postmodernism is characterised by re imagining, PASTICHE, PARODY, COPY, BRICOLAGE. It is not worrying about the meta-narrative which are deep questions (eg why we are here) but just focusing on whats going on in the moment. Postmodernism suggests we dont know whats real anymore eg Memento: ‘facts are more important than memory’. Unable to distinguish fiction from reality.

The film is a rearrangement of unconnected signs.

We live in a post modernist culture. Eg tiktok being superficial.

Self referentiality means always referencing itself. In memento we see the same things over and over again.

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

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

Memento is characterised with Intertextuality such as surface signs, gestures & play

For example in memento his body is filled with tattoos which are signs.

BRICOLAGE is a useful term to apply to postmodernist texts as it ‘involves the rearrangement and juxtaposition of previously unconnected signs to produce new codes of meaning’ (Barker & Jane, 2016:237).