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MEDIACHS: Characteristics of Postmodern Film

Bricolage: the process of assembling artefacts frombits and pieces of other things

- Genre Cross-Over- recycling old forms

- mixing high and low culture (kitsch)

Intertextuality: the multiple ways in which a text is

entangled with or contains references to other texts

Pastiche (copying in tribute) and Parody (copying injest)

Style over content; the image and visual excitement

over narrative coherence

Confusions over time and space; the subversion of

classical cinematic conventions; fragmented narratives;time-bending.

Self-reflexiveness / self-referentiality: texts thatopenly reflect upon their own processes of artful

composition.

Metafiction: fiction that deals, often playfully and self-referentially, with fiction and its conventions

Flattening of Affect: Technology, violence, drugs and

the media lead to detached, emotionless lives

Hyperreality: Technologically created realities areoften more authentic or desirable than the real world

Altered States: Drugs and technology provide a

darker, sometimes psychedelic, gateway to new

internal realitiesMore Human than Human: Artificial intelligence,robotics and cybernetics seek to enhance or replace

humanity

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Features of postmodern films

Pastiche Self-referential, tongue-in-cheek, rehashes of classic pop culture

Flattening of Affect Technology, violence, drugs, and the media lead to detached, emotionless,unauthentic lives

Hyperreality Technologically created realities are often more authentic or desirable than the real

world

Time Bending Time travel provides another way to shape reality and play "what if" games with

society

Altered States Drugs and technology provide a darker, sometimes psychedelic, gateway to newinternal realities

More Human than

Human

Artificial intelligence, robotics, and cybernetics seek to enhance, or replace,

humanity

POSTMODERN IDEAS

1. We no longer have any sense of the difference between realthings and images of them, or real experiences and simulations

of them.

2. The distinction between media and reality has collapsed, and we

now live in a reality defined by images and representations astate of simulacrum.

3. Postmodernism rejects the idea that any media product or text isof any greater value than another. All judgments of value are

merely taste.

4. Culture eats itself and there is no longer anything new to

produce or distribute.

5. All ideas of the truth are just competing claims or discourses and what we believe to be the truth at any point is merely the

winning discourse.

6. Postmodern texts are said to be intertextual and self-referential

they break the rules of realism to explore the nature of theirown status as constructed texts.

7. In the postmodern world, media texts make visible and

challenge ideas of truth and reality, removing the illusion that

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stories, texts or images can ever accurately or neutrallyreproduce reality or truth

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