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Postmodernism Cinema
New HollywoodFilm Foundation Degree
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Postmodernism Ideas
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Postmodern Ideas• Elevates popular culture• State of simulacrum: Media and reality
distinctions is blurred – Big brother. • Society defined by images and representation
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Postmodern Ideas
• No longer anything new to produce or distribute: recycling culture • Feelings or alienation, insecurity,
uncertainties• Society of the spectacle • Three minute culture - MTV• Sense of reality dominated by popular
media images
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What does it mean for film studies?
• Range of ways of thinking about a film• Can be used to analyse film style
and production• Advent of a postmodern aesthethic
in film
Lego Movie Trailer
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Postmodernist film style
Kill Bill trailer
Intertextuality Fragmentation of linear narrative hybridity Blending high art and
popular culture Parody Pastiche Irony Bricolage Surface style metafiction
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Intertextuality
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The Scream (1893), Edward Munch
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The Persistent to Time (1931), Salavdor Dali
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IntertextualityThe multiple ways in which a text is entangled with or contains references to other texts
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Intertextuality
• Borrowing and transformation of a prior text on to another • Relies on the audience's
understanding of media texts and pop culture to make a new meaning • Parody and pastiche are examples of
intertextuality
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What is the difference between parody and pastiche?
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Intertextuality
Parody Pastiche
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IntertextualityParodyImitation of another work, artist, or period often with satirical event
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IntertextualityPasticheUses imitation as a form of flattery rather than mockery and from plagiarism in its lack of deceptive intent
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Parody PasticheImitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule
Uses imitation as a form of tribute rather than mockery
Intertextuality
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Analyse and compare the intertextuality of thetrailers Scary Movie and Kill Bill.
Parody or Pastiche?
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Parody or Pastiche?
Scary Movie trailer Kill Bill trailer
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Parody- Familiarity with a formula plot,
conventions and characters. - Violate genre expectations - Incorporate plot, characters and
conventions of dozens of filmsScary Movie trailer
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Pastiche- Mixing and blurring of conventions and
boundaries. - Pays tribute to (imitating ) numerous
genres: pulp novels, blaxploitation, grind house, kung fu and western films
Kill Bill trailer
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Discussion: Pastiche – controversial?Viewpoint 1Pastiche is just recycling of art thought of - and that it lacks creativity.
Viewpoint 2 Pastiche has a distinct purpose to put old and new things together to create.
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Assembling artifacts from bits and pieces of other things- Genre Cross-over- Recycling old forms- Mixing high and low culture (kitsch)
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Look at the following images. Bricolage? Why?
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80’sPunks
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90s Fashion
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2000s Lady Gaga
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In what era is the film in set? Look at costume and production design
Amelie trailer
Amelie’s trailer
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Something heterogeneous - from more than one source - in origin or composition
In one word…
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HyperrealityTechnologically created realities are often more authentic or desirable than the real world. Reality and fiction are blended together – no distinction
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Hyperreality
"The simulation of something which never really existed." (Baudrillard)
"The authentic fake." (Eco)
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Las Vegas
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Other examples of hyperreality...
• “Wild ice zest berry“ – flavor that doesn’t exist • A plastic Christmas tree, more real than the
real one• Almost all video games
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Illustrate hyperreality in cinema and explainInception infinite steps Truman Shop final scene
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Complete this presentation. Research the following postmodernism concepts and use examples to illustrate your points:
• Self-reflectiveness / self-referentiality & metafiction• Altered states• Flattening of affect• More human than human• Time bending
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Self-reflectiveness / self referentiality & metafiction
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Altered states
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Flattening of affect
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More human than human
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Time Bending