Key Words;
- Pastiche- A work of art, drama, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
- Parody- A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with the use of irony and humour.
- Bricolage
- Intertextuality
- Referential
- Surface and style over substance and content
- Metanarrative
- Hyperreality- Living in a photoshopped reality blending the lines between reality and technologically altered reality.
- Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’)
- Consumerist Society
- Fragmentary Identities
- Alienation
- Implosion
- 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.
- 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.