- Pastiche – an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period.
- Parody – an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect
- Bricolage – construction or creation from a diverse range of available things.
- Intertextuality – can be a reference or parallel to another literary work, an extended discussion of a work, or the adoption of a style.
- Referential – the film talking about the film is REFERENTIAL (i.e., 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 –
- 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’) – the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality.
- 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.
- Fragmentary Identities – multidisciplinary collaboration, involving visual communication, performative arts and fashion.
- Alienation – a withdrawing or separation of a person or a person’s affections from an object or position of former attachment.
- Implosion – a situation in which something fails suddenly and completely, or the fact of this happening
- cultural appropriation –
- Reflexivity= the fact of someone being able to examine their own feelings, reactions, and motives
- Deconstructive postmodernism
definition – the copying and reimagining of things. Idea of a parody or a pastiche.
Love Box in the living room is a pastiche of Adam Curtis’ work
It is also a parody…