Wednesday 11 May 2011

Why are some media products described as postmodern? essay plan

Intertextual references: film within a film e.g. inglorious basterds

Hyperreality – the arches on a mcdonalds ‘m’ It is just an ‘m’ yet it means good food due to the association with it.
Self-reflexivity: this involves the seemingly paradoxical combination of self-consciousness and some sort of historical grounding

Irony: Post modernism subverts conventions and negotiates contradictions through irony

Boundaries: Post modernism challenges the boundaries between genres, art forms, theory and art, high art and the mass media, blurring the boundaries of genres.

Constructs: Post modernism is actively involved in examining the constructs society creates including, but not exclusively, the following:

Nation: Post modernism examines the construction of nations/nationality and questions such constructions
Gender: Post modernism reassesses gender, the construction of gender, and the role of gender in cultural formations
Race: Post modernism questions and reassesses constructs of race
Sexuality: Post modernism questions and reassesses constructs of sexuality

POSTMODERNISM, QUESTIONS/CHALLENGES THE CONVENTIONS OF EVERYTHING.
It challenges, genre conventions, gender stereotypes, racial stereotypes, social stereotypes etc. For example, the conventions of what is right and what is wrong within society are blurred.
Scott Pilgrim
• Intertextual references of old games
• Action/love/adventure movie – blurs boundares – fits into more than one thing.
Kick-Ass
• Female hero – not stereotypical ‘damsel in distress’
• Soundtrack comprised of many other superhero film soundtracks put together.
• Little girl with guns/ killing people/swearing unrealism is realistic its unrealistic yet we believe it to be real else the film wouldn’t work

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