Intro to postmodernism

Does this ring any bells….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ImZTwYwCug

Read through the hand out

What do you understand of the term postmodernism?

POST MODERNISM

AFTER THE MODERN ERA

POSTMODERNISM Is the fashionable term used to describe

CONTEMPORARY culture, or the very recent CULTURE which we live amongst. We are inhabiting a POSTMODERN WORLD.

The term is a lose one , hard to define because of vagueness about the MODERN era, there is no definite start or point of change when society suddenly became postmodern

The term gradually ‘crept in during the 1980s! Articles and books on postmodernism started to be published from the early 1980s.

Post-modernism is a set of theories which suggests that society is undergoing a radical series of changes where modernism is either: coming to an end or, being rejected by people or, changing into a new order.

Postmodernism it is general the era that follows Modernism

Modernism

Postmodernism

purpose play

design chance

Hierarchyorder

AnarchyConfusion

finished work process, performance

distance participation

creation deconstruction

presence absence

depth surface

Modernism Postmodernism

truth irony

determinacy indeterminacy

Reality Imaginary

interpretation against interpretation

reading misreading

narrative Anti-narrative

elitism Anti-authoritarianism

ITS NOT JUST ABOUT MEDIA

It started with postmodern architecture

Architects and their grew bored with the restrictive rules of modernism which dictated that form follow function and allowed for no decoration.

Philip Johnston’s tower has a classical greek pediment shape on the top taken from furniture design

They started to make reference to older styles of architecture and develop playful forms

There is postmodern food . .

A blending of culturesA HYBRID FORM!!!

Postmodern fashion Fashion can also be inspired by other cultures and by the past

Katharine Hamnett >

Henry Holland?

Key characteristicsPostmodern style is often characterized by eclecticism, digression, collage, pastiche, and irony.

Postmodern theorists see postmodern art as a conflation or reversal of well-established modernist systems, such as the roles of

artist versus audience, seriousness versus play, or high culture versus kitsch

High Art Low Art/ Popular Culture

Fine art Advertising

Opera Pop music

Ballet Genre Films

Classical Music Television

Classical Literature Pulp fiction or Trashy Novels

Art Cinema Pornography

The breakdown of distinction between high culture and popular culture

Against Elitism Treating ‘low art’ or ‘popular culture’ as if they where high art places

Postmodernism can be broken down into different concepts

1. In groups, you are going to explore and research these different ideas.

2. You are going to look at examples outlined by the teacher

3. You will find your own examples from contemporary media texts

4. You will explain the concept to the class and present your examples

Group 1 to explore Intertextuality and bricolage

Using the text book, read through the explanation of these two postmodern concepts.

You are going to explain how they conforms to this using this example and one other of your own choice.

Search on youtube ‘Weezer Buddy Holly’

Group 2 – Baudrillard and Lyotard

Using the text book, read through the explanation of how Baudrillard conforms to a postmodernist theory.

You are going to explain how simulacrum conforms to this using this example and one other of your own choice.

Search on youtube ‘Black Mirror trailer’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jROLrhQkK78

Is technology enabling us, the audience to create postmodern interpretations of media texts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEDMpsJ5xuU

Is Nikki Minaj postmodern? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDZX4ooRsWs