Download - Post-Modernism Session1
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Lesson Objective:
to understand the 3 approaches to postmodernism
to understand the difference between modernism and postmodernism
to know the basic theories of the postmodern
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What is postmodernism?
You have 10 minutes to research the term postmodernism.
Make a note of all definitions you find, ready to feedback to the class.
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Postmodernism is a notoriously difficult concept to define.
There are 3 approaches:
Historical Stylistic
Theoretical
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Historical
Postmodernism is a reaction to modernism.
Therefore to understand postmodernism from a historical point of view, we need to first understand modernism.
So …
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What is modernism?
Experimenting with representations of reality
Early part of the 20th century
Value judgements (e.g. High culture= good, low culture = bad)
A lot of what is generally accepted as ‘the norm’
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Think…architecture
The
simplification
of form and
the elimination
of ornament
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Art
experimenting with
representation
of people
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Nuclear family
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So is that’s modernism, what is postmodernism?
Think…
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architecture…playing with
the idea of
conventions of
buildings –
making us
think about
how it is
constructed
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art… What is art?
This?
Or this?
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Alternative models in societye.g. family
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So how can we define postmodernism?
Subject of postmodern media texts:
Postmodern texts embody scepticism towards the ideas and ideals of the modern era, especially the ideas of progress, objectivity, reason certainty, personal identity and grand narratives (more on this later)
Style of postmodern media texts:
Postmodernism takes pleasure in playing with convention, pointing out nature of how everything is a construction.
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Theoretical Approach
Main theorists:
Lyotard
Baudrillard
Jameson
These 3 theorists offer interpretations of postmodernism which will help us in considering postmodern media.
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10 mins to research theorists
Find out what postmodern theories these theorists came up with.
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Jean-François Lyotard(1924-1998)
Rejection of ‘grand or meta-narratives’
These are large-scale theories and philosophies of the world, such as the progress of history, the knowability of everything by science, and the possibility of absolute freedom.
Therefore, all ‘grand narratives’ should be viewed with suspicion.
The truth therefore needs to be ‘deconstructed’ so that we can challenge dominant ideas that people claim as truth.
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Jean Baudrillard(1929-2007)
There is no longer a distinction between reality and its representing image, or simulacrum.
Hyperreality – there is only surface meaning; there is no longer any original thing for the sign to represent; the sign is the meaning.
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Frederic Jameson (b. 1934)
Historical viewpoint – postmodernism is a development of modernism.
Postmodernist works are often characterized by lack of depth, which has been replaced by a surfeit of surface.
Jameson catalogs key features of postmodern culture, as self-referentiality, irony, pastiche, and parody.
Jameson refers to this cultural recycling as historicism—the random cannibalization of various past styles – erasing historical depth.
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Stylistic Approach
Postmodernism comprises of a set of core ideas and key concepts that work collaboratively to shape it.
The more of these ideas and key concepts it embellishes, the more of a post-modern text it becomes; these are largely derived from the above theorists.
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Key concepts
generic blurring
intertextuality and bricolage
playfulness e.g. parody and pastiche
hyperreality
hyperconciousness
eclecticism
death of representation
uncertainty and the loss of context
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So which approach will we go with?
A combination of all of them, as appropriate.
To consider whether a text is ‘postmodern’ or not we will largely rely on a stylistic approach, which themselves are a product of historical and theoretical approaches.
We will also keep the other approaches in mind and look at how a postmodern viewpoint, from either a historical or theoretical point of view affects the way in which the audience and the industry produce and consume the media.
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From what you have learnt today, which texts do you think could be
described as ‘postmodern’?
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Homework
Read and learn terms from glossary.
Start on ‘reading’ list.