- Pastiche – is a work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist
- Parody – is work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony
- Bricolage – Bring different things together- rearranges signs that aren’t connected and brings new meanings to them
- Intertextuality – suggests signs only have meaning in reference to other signs – one sign that is a clear copy of another sign
- Metanarrative – big / overall narrative.
- Hyperreality – the existence of a reality that is the reality but doesn’t seem like it.
- Simulacrum – where the simulation is more real than the reality
- Conumerist Society – one in which people devote a great deal of time, energy, resources, and thought to “consuming”.
- Fragmentary Identities – when a personal identity and idea of who they are is fragmented and a person’s identity has wholes in it.
- Implosion – an instance of something collapsing violently inwards
- cultural appropriation – Cultural appropriation, at times also phrased cultural misappropriation, is the adoption of an element or elements of one culture by members of another culture.
- Reflexivity -refers to circular realtionships
POSTMODERNISM – A philosophy/ a way of seeing the world- relates to concepts such as;
RE-IMAGINING, PASTICHE, PARODY, COPY, BRICOLAGE
2 types of coping – Parody v Pastiche. PARODY= coping something or someone with an intention of making it comical and making fun of them. Whereas PASTICHE= coping someone seriously and making or doing something like them or in the style of.
Intertextuality: surface signs, gestures & play
Shuker, ‘their preoccupation with visual style‘
fragmentary, decentred nature of … whatever it might be (music videos etc…) FRAGMENTARY – is in fragments has holes
audiences are ‘no longer able to distinguish ‘fiction’ from ‘reality’, don’t know what is real and what is not
BRICOLAGE – ‘involves the rearrangement and juxtaposition of previously unconnected signs to produce new codes of meaning’ (Barker & Jane, 2016:237).
If it the priority is play, then the emphasis is on the surface
We are more interested in the surface or something.
‘in a postmodern world, surfaces and style become the most important defining features of the mass media and popular culture‘ (Strinati: 234)
A brief economic, historical and societal backdrop to Postmodernism.
Richard Hoggart (Uses of Literacy) – noted the shift in modern societies particularly the impact on our ‘neighborhood lives’, which was ‘an extremely local life, in which everything is remarkably near‘ (1959:46)
Fragmentary consumption = Fragementary identities.
This process of fragmented consumption separating, splitting up and dividing previously homogeneous groups such as, friends, the family, the neighborhood, the local community, the town, the county, the country and importantly
postmodern culture is a consumer culture – the focus on FRAGMENTATION OF IDENTITY is characterized and linked to an increase of consumption and the proliferation of new forms of digital technologies.
alienated individuals living (precariously) in fragmented societies. – we are not connected in the modern world has frage=mented and alienated individuals
The loss of a metanarrative
French intellectual Jean Baudrillard would describe as IMPLOSION which gives rise to what he terms SIMULACRA. The idea that although the media has always been seen as a representation of reality – more simulations than reality. (because we lost this metanarrative society has collapsed in on itself) (the more we do what we think we should the more we disconnect from ourselves) we don’t know what’s real.