What is Post Modernism?

• The theory that the world we exist in isn’t reality and we all copy and imitate each other in some way or another, whether it be to ridicule or purely to reproduce. This can be seen through signs.
• It is deliberate, intended, self-conscious, signs about signs. This may be frivolous, trite, casual, surface or throwaway.

1. Pastiche= work of art that imitates the work of previous art
2. Parody= work or performance that imitates the art with intentions to mock and ridicule it
3. Bricolage= Rearrangement and juxtaposition of previously unconnected signs to produce new codes of meaning
4. Intertextuality= Signs only have meaning in reference to other signs, and that meaning is a complex process of decoding/encoding with individuals both taking and creating meaning
5. Referential=
6. Surface and style over substance and content=
7. Metanarrative=
8. Hyperreality=
9. Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) =
10. Consumerist Society= People devote a great deal of time, energy, resources and thought into ‘consuming’ something.
11. Fragmentary Identities= A multidisciplinary collaboration, involving visual communication, performative arts and fashion. Exploration and reconstruction of identity in the modern age.
12. Alienation=
13. Implosion=
14. cultural appropriation=
15. Reflexivity=

What is postmodernism?

Postmodernism can be seen as reimagining and copying things off others. In regards to art its the modern version of the earlier version but still copied from previous work.

1. Pastiche – the work of art, drama, literature, music or architecture that imitates the work of the artist.
2. Parody – is work or a performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
3. Bricolage  – construction or creation of something. The creation of a character and creation of new identities.
4. Intertextuality – the link between reality and a made up world
5. 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
6. Surface and style over substance and content
7. Metanarrative
8. Hyperreality – nothings really real or new as we always copy off something from earlier years.
9. Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) – the idea of taking the viewer away from reality and placing them into a fake situation. audience imagination creates a simulation.
10. Consumerist Society – one in which people devote a great deal of time, energy, resources and thought to “consuming”
11. Fragmentary Identities – when the body divides traits and feelings, and groups them into smaller sections, keeping some of them hidden until a safe space for expression is provided
12. Alienation- a rejection of social institutions and processes. Disassociation from reality into a made up world.
13. Implosion
14. cultural appropriation
15. Reflexivity

Love box in your living room is a Pastiche. This is seen in “a cup of tea” written in 1960 shown 18 minutes into the show

“love box” is a pastiche to Adam Curtis “oh dearism”

In regards to memento

The film begins with Leonard shooting Teddy – the climax of his quest for vengeance. The main question facing Leonard is ‘Who killed his wife?’ and ‘How can he find him to take revenge?’ These questions seem to be answered in the first five minutes – so what enigmas are created for the audience as the plot moves (backwards in time)? How are these enigmas answered? Are the answers stable (i.e. are the undermined by what we discover later)?

The same as of mice and men, post modernism taking the events of. of mice and men making it the beginning of the story in memento.

Immanence = means literally ‘to remain within’, but seen by postmodernists as concept whereby things can exist without referring to anything outside of themselves for meaning

Rhizomatic thought = ‘rhizomes’ are plant life that don’t follow the root-tree system e.g. fungus or mould. There is no ‘core’, no lesser or greater elements. If you destroy the centre of a mould the rest doesn’t die (like if you destroyed the trunk of a tree), it continues to thrive.

concept of identity in post modernism

there is no real you its all just a collection of fragments

you are an ongoing project. for example if you chose to cut your hair the project has changed.

as a product we are all unstable GILES DELEUZE

none can tell us who we really are as ongoing problems and views in society change the notion of truth.

LUCAN we use other images to form ourselves

experiences constructed in the media influence us and create immersive experiences which feel real to us as a direct experience.

consumerism

you are what you buy

‘plastic self’ – we want to experience as much product as possible within our life spans.

‘expressive self’ using products to define and identify ourselves.

in memento

• there is no real you
• there’s no truth in history
• people that claim to known the truth are untrustworthy
• knowledge doesn’t add up
• fact and fiction are reliant on each other to the point where they cannot be divided.

Deleuze disputes the idea of a hierarchy to knowledge or experience or identity; and the notion of there being a core ‘truth’ that we can find by adding together knowledge.

1. Pastiche – Imitating a previous work
2. Parody – Imitating a previous work with irony and/or ridicule
3. Bricolage  
4. Intertextuality
5. Referential – Containing references to something or (self-referential) to itself
6. Surface and style over substance and content
7. Metanarrative
8. Hyperreality – The inability to distinguish reality from it’s signifiers. Not knowing if something is real.
9. Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) – Simulacra are copies that depict things that either have never had an original or no longer have an original.
10. Consumerist Society
11. Fragmentary Identities
12. Alienation
13. Implosion
14. cultural appropriation
15. Reflexivity

Postmodernism is the idea that we all copy previous work to express ourselves, and that new ideas are just a new iteration of previous works.

Parody – “Every woman in this era was called Vera, or Lynn”
Parody – “By calling them on the telephone after breakfast”
Parody – “Despite being Scottish, had an optimistic view of life”

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.

What is postmodernism?

1. Pastiche – a piece of art that imitating something previous
2. Parody – a piece of art that is mocking imitating something previous
3. Bricolage – something constructed or create from a different diverse range of things
4. Intertextuality
5. Referential
6. Surface and style over substance and content
7. Metanarrative
8. Hyperreality
9. Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) 
10. Consumerist Society – a society who are more invested in people buying and consuming different things
11. Fragmentary Identities
12. Alienation
13. Implosion
14. cultural appropriation
15. Reflexivity

In this sense, postmodernism works in terms REITERATION, so in the example of The Love Box in your Living Room it is a reiteration of the documentary work by Adam Curtis.

Key Words;

1. Pastiche- A work of art, drama, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
2. Parody- A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with the use of irony and humour.
3. Bricolage  
4. Intertextuality
5. Referential
6. Surface and style over substance and content
7. Metanarrative
8. Hyperreality- Living in a photoshopped reality blending the lines between reality and technologically altered reality.
9. Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) 
10. Consumerist Society
11. Fragmentary Identities
12. Alienation
13. Implosion
14. 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.
15. 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.

1. Pastiche – Imitating a previous work
2. Parody – Imitating a previous work with irony and/or ridicule.
3. Bricolage – something constructed or created from a diverse range of things. (eg. a bricolage of games)
4. 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.)
5. Referential –
6. Surface and style over substance and content –
7. Metanarrative –
8. Hyperreality – where audiences cant tell the difference from reality and non-reality.
9. 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
10. Consumerist Society – Being a consumer in society (eg. content and items) –
11. Fragmentary Identities –
12. Alienation – feeling withdrawn or ostracised within society.
13. Implosion – a sudden failure or collapse of an organization or system.
14. cultural appropriation –
15. 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

What is postmodernism?

Postmodernism is the reimagining and copying of previous work.

Pastiche – an imitation of the work of a previous artist that pays homage to the original

Parody – an imitation of the work of a previous artist with deliberate exaggeration for comedic effect

Bricolage – the rearrangement and juxtaposition of previously unconnected signs to produce new codes of meaning

Intertextuality – the concept that the meaning of a text does not reside in the text, but is produced by the reader in relation to the text in question as well as the complex network of texts invoked in the reading process

Referential –

Style Over Substance – the transition from substance to style is linked to a transition from production to consumption

Metanarrative – overarching story

Hyperreality – the inability to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality

Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) 

Consumerist Society –

Fragmentary Identities – the notion of separating, splitting up and dividing previously homogeneous groups such as, friends, the family, the neighbourhood, the local community, the town, the county, the country

Alienation –

Implosion – the process leading to the collapse of boundaries between reality and simulations

Cultural Appropriation –

Reflexivity –

The Love Box in Your Living Room (2022) is a pastiche of the work of documentary filmmaker, Adam Curtis, whilst also being a parody of the BBC’s history.

“in a postmodern world, surfaces and style become the most important defining features of the mass media and popular culture” (Strinati: 234)

1. Pastiche – imitating previous work.
2. Parody – Imitating previous work in a joking and funny manner.
3. Bricolage – something constructed or created from a diverse range of things.
4. Intertextuality – the relationship between texts, especially literary ones.
5. Referential – containing or of the nature of references or allusions.
6. Surface and style over substance and content –
7. Metanarrative
8. Hyperreality – the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality.
9. Simulation (termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) 
10. Consumerist Society
11. Fragmentary Identities
12. Alienation
13. Implosion
14. cultural appropriation
15. Reflexivity – acknowledging your role in the research.

Postmodernism is the theory that people copy each other everywhere, meaning there is no true form of ourselves.

• Taking chair away, making the character fall over several times, not professional.
• “the generals didn’t strike, even though the general strike was named after them”
• Lord Reith shown singing a rock song.