Post Modernism – a questioning of the ideas and values associated with a form of modernism that believes in progress and innovation. 

Definitions of Key terms

1. Pastiche – is a work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist
2. Parody – is a work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony
3. Bricolage – Bricolage is a French word which refers to the skill of using whatever is at hand and recombining all that to create something new – e.g taking parts from an old car to use and create a new car
4. Intertextuality
5. Referential –  Of a word or phrase applied to a particular person, place, or thing and not to any other.
6. Surface and style over substance and content
7. Metanarrative
8. Hyperreality – the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality e.g Disney Land
9. Simulation – a model that mimics the operation of an existing or proposed system, providing evidence for decision-making by being able to test different scenarios or process changes.
10. Consumerist Society – a society in which people often buy new goods, especially goods that they do not need, and in which a high value is placed on owning many things.
11. Fragmentary Identities – is an multidisciplinary collaboration, involving visual communication, performative arts and fashion. It is an exploration of the fragmentation and reconstruction of identity in the modern age, and its effects on the relationships between individuals.
12. Alienation –  the feeling that you have no connection with the people around you or that you are not part of a group
13. Implosion
14. Cultural appropriation
15. Reflexivity

I think ‘The Love Box in Your Living Room’ is best described as a parody due to the constant informal jokes.

• They called Ronald Atkins – Ronald McDonald
• Every clip used has some sort of humour towards the audience involved

1. Pastiche= work of art that imitates the work of previous art
2. Parody= work or performance that imitates the art with intentions to mock and ridicule it can come in the form of music videos movies , mockumentary, arcitecture
3. Bricolage=
4. Intertextuality=another useful term to use, as it suggests signs only have meaning in reference to other signs and that meaning is therefore a complex process of decoding/encoding with individuals both taking and creating meaning in the process of reading texts.
5. Referential=
6. Surface and style over substance and content=
7. Metanarrative=
8. Hyperreality= the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality,
9. Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) =
10. Consumerist Society=a society in which people often buy new goods, especially goods that they do not need, and in which a high value is placed on owning many things. 
11. Fragmentary Identities= an multidisciplinary collaboration, involving visual communication, performative arts and fashion.
12. Alienation=
13. Implosion=
14. cultural appropriation=
15. Reflexivity

postmodernism:

we see lord reef in it but it isnt him

it is a parody

1. lord reef massive eyebrows making fun of the look
2. talking in a child playroom

words	relation to extezansial
pastiche
parody
Bricolage
Intertextuality
Referential
Surface and style over substance and content
Metanarrative
Hyperreality
Simulation	the dog in the game is not the dog we thought it was
Consumerist Society
Fragmentary Identities
Alienation
Implosion	them thinking about the game at the end where they are supposedly out of the game
cultural appropriation
Reflexivity

Postmodernism can therefore be understood (more than other creative movements) as deliberate, intended, self-conscious play, signs about signs, notes to notes? Often, this may be frivolous, trite, casual, surface, throw-away. It may even be ironic, joking, or literally, ‘just playing’. However, it is always a deliberate copy of older art/things. Therefore, the old has been re-worked into something new, which clearly entails a recognition to what it was and where it came from.

If we agree that The Love Box in your Living Room it is a REITERATION of the documentary work by Adam Curtis then it works as both a parody and a pastiche. In this sense, postmodernism works in terms of gestures, signs, re-imagining of work that is already recognised. However, the key question is whether this is just play? Or whether it is indicative of something else? Some more seismic and significant shifts in society?

theorists this could link to: David gauntlet

theory of identity

For many this is reflective of the new global economy (globalisation), which has created a high polarized class division between the rich / the really super rich and the poor / underclass (ie the really, really poor) made possible through the rapid increase of new forms of technological developments.

FRAGMENTED COMMUNITIES, fractured and alienated individuals struggling to survive and keep alive. Fragmented identity

momento is very postmodern as it

1. Pastiche – imitates an artistic style of another person’s work or creation.
2. Parody –  is work or a performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony. When the characters talk about themselves.
3. Bricolage  
4. Intertextuality
5. Referential- when the film talks about the film is is referential , referring to itself, when each character starts to analyse each other it shows narrative function and script.
6. Surface and style over substance and content
7. Metanarrative
8. Hyperreality – nothings really real or new as we always copy off something from earlier years.
9. Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) 
10. Consumerist Society
11. Fragmentary Identities
12. Alienation
13. Implosion
14. cultural appropriation
15. Reflexivity

Love box in your living room is a Pastiche, “love box” is a pastiche to Adam Curtis “oh dearism”

Postmodernism can be understood as deliberate and self-conscious. It works in terms of reiteration, so in the example of The Love Box in your Living Room – it can be seen as a reiteration of the documentary work of Adam Curtis.

it is also a parody is relating to john reith bbc producer.

What is Post Modernism?

• The theory that the world we exist in isn’t reality and we all copy and imitate each other in some way or another, whether it be to ridicule or purely to reproduce. This can be seen through signs.
• It is deliberate, intended, self-conscious, signs about signs. This may be frivolous, trite, casual, surface or throwaway.

1. Pastiche= work of art that imitates the work of previous art
2. Parody= work or performance that imitates the art with intentions to mock and ridicule it
3. Bricolage= Rearrangement and juxtaposition of previously unconnected signs to produce new codes of meaning
4. Intertextuality= Signs only have meaning in reference to other signs, and that meaning is a complex process of decoding/encoding with individuals both taking and creating meaning
5. Referential=
6. Surface and style over substance and content=
7. Metanarrative=
8. Hyperreality=
9. Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) =
10. Consumerist Society= People devote a great deal of time, energy, resources and thought into ‘consuming’ something.
11. Fragmentary Identities= A multidisciplinary collaboration, involving visual communication, performative arts and fashion. Exploration and reconstruction of identity in the modern age.
12. Alienation=
13. Implosion=
14. cultural appropriation=
15. Reflexivity=

What is postmodernism?

Postmodernism can be seen as reimagining and copying things off others. In regards to art its the modern version of the earlier version but still copied from previous work.

1. Pastiche – the work of art, drama, literature, music or architecture that imitates the work of the artist.
2. Parody – is work or a performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
3. Bricolage  – construction or creation of something. The creation of a character and creation of new identities.
4. Intertextuality – the link between reality and a made up world
5. Referential – the film talking about the film is REFERENTIAL (ie it refers to itself), for example when they are passionate and Allegro tells (us?) what the function of this scene is. Also at the end when each character analyses each character – motivation, script, narrative function etc
6. Surface and style over substance and content
7. Metanarrative
8. Hyperreality – nothings really real or new as we always copy off something from earlier years.
9. Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) – the idea of taking the viewer away from reality and placing them into a fake situation. audience imagination creates a simulation.
10. Consumerist Society – one in which people devote a great deal of time, energy, resources and thought to “consuming”
11. Fragmentary Identities – when the body divides traits and feelings, and groups them into smaller sections, keeping some of them hidden until a safe space for expression is provided
12. Alienation- a rejection of social institutions and processes. Disassociation from reality into a made up world.
13. Implosion
14. cultural appropriation
15. Reflexivity

Love box in your living room is a Pastiche. This is seen in “a cup of tea” written in 1960 shown 18 minutes into the show

“love box” is a pastiche to Adam Curtis “oh dearism”

In regards to memento

The film begins with Leonard shooting Teddy – the climax of his quest for vengeance. The main question facing Leonard is ‘Who killed his wife?’ and ‘How can he find him to take revenge?’ These questions seem to be answered in the first five minutes – so what enigmas are created for the audience as the plot moves (backwards in time)? How are these enigmas answered? Are the answers stable (i.e. are the undermined by what we discover later)?

The same as of mice and men, post modernism taking the events of. of mice and men making it the beginning of the story in memento.

Immanence = means literally ‘to remain within’, but seen by postmodernists as concept whereby things can exist without referring to anything outside of themselves for meaning

Rhizomatic thought = ‘rhizomes’ are plant life that don’t follow the root-tree system e.g. fungus or mould. There is no ‘core’, no lesser or greater elements. If you destroy the centre of a mould the rest doesn’t die (like if you destroyed the trunk of a tree), it continues to thrive.

concept of identity in post modernism

there is no real you its all just a collection of fragments

you are an ongoing project. for example if you chose to cut your hair the project has changed.

as a product we are all unstable GILES DELEUZE

none can tell us who we really are as ongoing problems and views in society change the notion of truth.

LUCAN we use other images to form ourselves

experiences constructed in the media influence us and create immersive experiences which feel real to us as a direct experience.

consumerism

you are what you buy

‘plastic self’ – we want to experience as much product as possible within our life spans.

‘expressive self’ using products to define and identify ourselves.

in memento

• there is no real you
• there’s no truth in history
• people that claim to known the truth are untrustworthy
• knowledge doesn’t add up
• fact and fiction are reliant on each other to the point where they cannot be divided.

Deleuze disputes the idea of a hierarchy to knowledge or experience or identity; and the notion of there being a core ‘truth’ that we can find by adding together knowledge.