- Pastiche – Imitating a previous work
- Parody – Imitating a previous work with irony and/or ridicule.
- Bricolage – something constructed or created from a diverse range of things. (eg. a bricolage of games)
- 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.)
- Referential –
- Surface and style over substance and content –
- Metanarrative –
- Hyperreality – where audiences cant tell the difference from reality and non-reality.
- 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 – Being a consumer in society (eg. content and items) –
- Fragmentary Identities –
- Alienation – feeling withdrawn or ostracised within society.
- Implosion – a sudden failure or collapse of an organization or system.
- cultural appropriation –
- 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