- Pastiche – An imitation of another’s style
- Parody – An imitation of another’s style, with comic effect
- Bricolage – Something constructed from a large range of aspects
- Intertextuality – The relationship between texts, especially literary ones
- Referential – Containing nature or reference to illusions
- Surface and style over substance and content
- Metanarrative
- Hyperreality
- Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’)
- Consumerist Society
- Fragmentary Identities
- Alienation
- Implosion
- cultural appropriation
- Reflexivity
Postmodernism: Where all ideologies and realities are questioned
| Pastiche | An imitation of another’s style |
| Parody | An imitation of another’s style, with comic effect. The film talks about the film at the end when different characters talk about their own characterisation, acting, role in the narrative etc |
| Bricolage | construction or creation from a diverse range of available sources |
| Intertextuality | The relationship between texts, especially literary ones |
| 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 |
| Surface and style over substance and content | |
| Metanarrative | A narrative which concerns narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge and offers legitimation of such through the anticipated completion of some master idea |
| Hyperreality | Baudrillard suggests we live in a world that is ‘real’ but not really ‘real’ we can see that in the film in that we are never quite sure what is the real world or the game world? |
| 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 |
| Consumerist Society | A community in which individuals dedicate a large amount of time and effort to consuming |
| Fragmentary Identities | |
| Alienation | The separation of human beings from some essential aspect of their nature or from society, often resulting in feelings of powerlessness or helplessness. Feeling distanced from family, friends and work is a common symptom of feeling alienated. |
| Implosion | |
| cultural appropriation | |
| Reflexivity |