Postmodernism

  1. Pastiche – Imitating a previous work
  2. Parody – Imitating a previous work with irony and/or ridicule
  3. Bricolage  
  4. Intertextuality
  5. Referential – Containing references to something or (self-referential) to itself
  6. Surface and style over substance and content
  7. Metanarrative
  8. Hyperreality – The inability to distinguish reality from it’s signifiers. Not knowing if something is real.
  9. Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) – Simulacra are copies that depict things that either have never had an original or no longer have an original.
  10. Consumerist Society
  11. Fragmentary Identities
  12. Alienation
  13. Implosion
  14. cultural appropriation
  15. Reflexivity

Postmodernism is the idea that we all copy previous work to express ourselves, and that new ideas are just a new iteration of previous works.

Parody – “Every woman in this era was called Vera, or Lynn”
Parody – “By calling them on the telephone after breakfast”
Parody – “Despite being Scottish, had an optimistic view of life”

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.

Postmodernism

What is postmodernism?

  1. Pastiche – a piece of art that imitating something previous
  2. Parody – a piece of art that is mocking imitating something previous
  3. Bricolage – something constructed or create from a different diverse range of things
  4. Intertextuality
  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 – a society who are more invested in people buying and consuming different things
  11. Fragmentary Identities
  12. Alienation
  13. Implosion
  14. cultural appropriation
  15. Reflexivity

In this sense, postmodernism works in terms REITERATION, so in the example of The Love Box in your Living Room it is a reiteration of the documentary work by Adam Curtis.

postmodernism

Key Words;

  1. Pastiche- A work of art, drama, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
  2. Parody- A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with the use of irony and humour.
  3. Bricolage  
  4. Intertextuality
  5. Referential
  6. Surface and style over substance and content
  7. Metanarrative
  8. Hyperreality- Living in a photoshopped reality blending the lines between reality and technologically altered reality.
  9. Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) 
  10. Consumerist Society
  11. Fragmentary Identities
  12. Alienation
  13. Implosion
  14. cultural appropriation- The process of a person wearing/using cultural objects from a culture they are not apart of, and sexualising/getting attention from it without acknowledging the prejudice the culture gets.
  15. Reflexivity

New expression of identity and being- especially those represented in popular cultures and media products through technology- are new iteration of previous things. Nothing is new but just different and similar to the thing it took inspiration off of.

Parody:

-Labour party leader is not called ronald mcdonald

-postmodernism works in terms REITERATION, so in the example of The Love Box in your Living Room it is a reiteration (pastiche) of the documentary work by Adam Curtis.

POSTMODERNISM

  1. Pastiche – Imitating a previous work
  2. Parody – Imitating a previous work with irony and/or ridicule.
  3. Bricolage – something constructed or created from a diverse range of things. (eg. a bricolage of games)
  4. Intertextuality – a reference or parallel to another literary work, an extended discussion of a work, or the adoption of a style. (eg. The main plotline of Disney’s The Lion King is a take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.)
  5. Referential –
  6. Surface and style over substance and content –
  7. Metanarrative –
  8. Hyperreality – where audiences cant tell the difference from reality and non-reality.
  9. Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) – Baudrillard suggests that we live in copies of copies of the real world (?) but not really ‘real’ and we see this in the film because there are so many layers of game
  10. Consumerist Society – Being a consumer in society (eg. content and items) –
  11. Fragmentary Identities –
  12. Alienation – feeling withdrawn or ostracised within society.
  13. Implosion – a sudden failure or collapse of an organization or system.
  14. cultural appropriation –
  15. Reflexivity –

From what I can see so far, Postmodernism is copying peoples others work and adapting it claiming it as their own iterating on it, and therefore nothing is truly original or new.
Parody – “Despite being Scottish, had an optimistic view of life”, “Instead of using wired communications to tell soldiers to kill millions of Germans, they now used wireless communications to tell soldiers to kill millions of Germans.”
Postmodernism works in the terms of reiteration, so in the example of The Love Box in your Living Room it is a reiteration of the documentary work by Adam Curtis.
STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE. could be applied to both ghost town and letter to the free.

CSPs: Tomb Raider, Ghost Town

Postmodernism

What is postmodernism?

Postmodernism is the reimagining and copying of previous work.

Pastiche – an imitation of the work of a previous artist that pays homage to the original

Parody – an imitation of the work of a previous artist with deliberate exaggeration for comedic effect

Bricolage – the rearrangement and juxtaposition of previously unconnected signs to produce new codes of meaning

Intertextuality – the concept that the meaning of a text does not reside in the text, but is produced by the reader in relation to the text in question as well as the complex network of texts invoked in the reading process

Referential –

Style Over Substance – the transition from substance to style is linked to a transition from production to consumption

Metanarrative – overarching story

Hyperreality – the inability to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality

Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) 

Consumerist Society –

Fragmentary Identities – the notion of separating, splitting up and dividing previously homogeneous groups such as, friends, the family, the neighbourhood, the local community, the town, the county, the country

Alienation –

Implosion – the process leading to the collapse of boundaries between reality and simulations

Cultural Appropriation –

Reflexivity –

The Love Box in Your Living Room (2022) is a pastiche of the work of documentary filmmaker, Adam Curtis, whilst also being a parody of the BBC’s history.

in a postmodern world, surfaces and style become the most important defining features of the mass media and popular culture” (Strinati: 234)

Postmodernism

  1. Pasticheimitating previous work.
  2. ParodyImitating previous work in a joking and funny manner.
  3. Bricolage – something constructed or created from a diverse range of things.
  4. Intertextualitythe relationship between texts, especially literary ones.
  5. Referentialcontaining or of the nature of references or allusions.
  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 (termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) 
  10. Consumerist Society
  11. Fragmentary Identities
  12. Alienation
  13. Implosion
  14. cultural appropriation
  15. Reflexivityacknowledging your role in the research.

Postmodernism is the theory that people copy each other everywhere, meaning there is no true form of ourselves.

  • Taking chair away, making the character fall over several times, not professional.
  • “the generals didn’t strike, even though the general strike was named after them”
  • Lord Reith shown singing a rock song.

BBC 100 – Radio Broadcast

Statement of Intent:

As a group, we intended to create a one hour radio broadcast regarding the ethos of the BBC: to inform, educate and entertain. We will address the history of the BBC and the correlation of popularity it has with the younger demographic. We will also discuss some popular topics such as the Football world cup in Qatar which is taking place presently. The show will include four speakers and will also include music. This production will take place during the scheduled “TrashTalk” broadcast. This will then be recorded and then uploaded to soundcloud.

Crissel states the four main categories for Radio: words, sound, music and silence. We aim to include all however we know that sound will be difficult due to lack of experience. We will play different genres of music that audiences may be familiar with so that we may be more appealing to a wider audience than that if we only focused on a specific genre. Our conversations will have direction but will also include elements of spontaneous speech so that the intimacy of radio can be experienced. This will be shown through our informal register which creates the illusion that we are having a private conversation with the listeners. This also helps to create a more relaxed and natural environment rather than a strict schedule.

Radio is traditionally set in a chronological order, we will show this through the use of interrogatives which help to give the conversation more direction and particular purpose. Our broadcast could relate to Stuart Hall’s reception theory. This talks about the Encoding and Decoding of messages showing the interpretation from the audience in comparison to the intention of the presenters. Our broadcast is likely to be considered ‘narrowcast’ as our audience is not likely to be big as Hautlieu Radio is still growing in popularity.

Evaluation:

For our broadcast we had some negatives and positives. I liked our ease with conversations and I think this made it easier to listen to and highlighted the sense of intimacy which we intended. However, to make our broadcast better, I think we could have included archive sound which would have made the production replicate a professional radio show. We also should have started on the hour as we don’t quite have an hours recording.