- Pastiche – imitates an artistic style of another person’s work or creation.
- Parody – is work or a performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony. When the characters talk about themselves.
- Bricolage
- Intertextuality
- Referential- when the film talks about the film is is referential , referring to itself, when each character starts to analyse each other it shows narrative function and script.
- Surface and style over substance and content
- Metanarrative
- Hyperreality – nothings really real or new as we always copy off something from earlier years.
- Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’)
- Consumerist Society
- Fragmentary Identities
- Alienation
- Implosion
- cultural appropriation
- Reflexivity
Love box in your living room is a Pastiche, “love box” is a pastiche to Adam Curtis “oh dearism”
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.
it is also a parody is relating to john reith bbc producer.