hyerreality,simulacra,ktsch,pastiche/parody/homage,intertextuality,spectacle,metanarratives,cultural relativism, cultural implosion, self-referentiality.
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define the term 'postmodern'
it can be used to describe a type of societY. A type of cultural product/artefact. A mode of identity (the pm self), as well as a way of looking at the world.
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Postmodernism rejects the notion that any critical perspective can ever provide ...
a comprehensive or coherent account of our lived experience.
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a grand narrative or a metanarrative is a term used for ...
any theory claiming to provide universal explanations and to be universally valid.
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Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture (globalisation) give examples...
one listens to reggae music, watches a western, eats mc donalds food for lunch, wears paris perfume in Tokyo etc.
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postmodernism then suggests that there is no ....
absolute truth
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there are only...
different versions of reality
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What does Jameson say about 'crisis of originality'?
"In a world which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles, to speak through the masks with the voices of the styles in the imaginary museum."
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Eco sees postmodern culture as being characterised by a ...
certain knowingness, self consciousness or irony.
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Eco goes onto say we can no longer pretend that our words or cultural creations are all our own work because our awareness that it is now ...
impossible to say or create something that is completely original.
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What is hyperreality?
when signs, images or simulations come to seem more 'real' than itself they are said to have achieved the status of the hyperreal (eg the fake displaces the real)
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eco defines pm as the ...
real fake
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Aesthetic exhaustion
the idea that everything has been said or done before
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this sense of Aesthetic exhaustion means that pm culture tends to be highly ...
intertextual
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PM texts frequently incorporate references to
other texts.
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This is done with a very knowing and playful
mode of address.
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What is one of the pleasures that the viewers/reader of the pm text gets?
recognising these intertextual references.
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Whats another function of intertextual references in pm texts?
Its used to remind us that what we are watching/reading is itself a constuct.
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Instead of the illusion that what we are watching/reading is real, pm texts often highlight their own
fictional/constructed status.
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what are the post modern ideas about identity? (3 key ideas)
-Instability of identity in pm times.. we accept identity as fluid not fixed. - FRAGMENTATION - the cult of individualism is disappearing -identities no longer have depth or substance ... we move between multiple, unstable identities (masks)
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what post-modernists say about style over substance?
images of our identity is more important than experimenting with identity.
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The distinction between the human body, technology, machines have become .... + examples
blurred , e.g facebook
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Reflexivity or self-reflexivity
a way in which texts raw attention to their own constructed status as texts.
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bricolage +example
the creative recombination of existing items to forge new meanings - culture mixing -example -fashion
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cultural realivism
you cannot say one culture is superior to another everything is equally valid,
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pastiche and example
forms of imitation.pastiche will reproduce the source material it uses example - SCARY MOVIE
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homage
respectful reference to someone elses work
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kitsch + examples
used to describe cultural artefacts that are considered vulgar,tasteless ostentatious or sentimental. examples - anna nicole opera , art etc.
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what city is a pm city?
las vegas
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pm movie?
pulp fiction
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define the term 'postmodern'
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it can be used to describe a type of societY. A type of cultural product/artefact. A mode of identity (the pm self), as well as a way of looking at the world.
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Postmodernism rejects the notion that any critical perspective can ever provide ...
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a grand narrative or a metanarrative is a term used for ...
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Card 5
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Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture (globalisation) give examples...
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