Characteristics of the way Post-modernism looks

Words:
Intertextuality - one media text referring to another, the breakdown of distinction between binary divides
Parody - Mocking something in an original way, no divide between high art and mass culture
Pastiche - Imitation of another work, artist or period
Bricolage - mixing up and using different genres and styles
Homage - imitation from a respectful standpoint

The distinction between media and reality has collapsed, and we now live in a reality defined by images and representations - a state of simulacrum
Images refer to each other and represent each other as reality rather than some 'pure' reality that exists before the image represents it - hyper-reality
Hybridity - The mixing and sampling of different kinds and levels 
Bricolage - This is used to refer to a process of adaptation of improvisation where aspects of one style are given quite different meanings when compared and collide with stylistic features from another or a combination of multiple. 
Self Reflexivity - Is the text aware that its is itself a constructed simulation or reproduction. 
Parody & Pastiche - Post Modern texts use Intertextuality to reference existing texts, sometimes as an HOMAGE 
Hyperreality - Reality is no longer pure or truth - our culture is saturated by media simulations of reality that we can no longer seperate them. The blurring of real and 'simulated', especially in film and reality TV or celebrity magazines both Hyper reality and CGI in films such as Avatar.
Jamesons Nostalgia & Cultural Recycling - Using Intertextuality, Parody and Pastiche

Wolverine - atomic bomb scene:

Pastiche

Telephone Parody:


Parody

A churchill moment:

Pastiche, homage, hyperreal

Royale with cheese - pulp fiction:

Simularcra, hybridity

Wrecking ball - Miley Cyrus:

Self-refelxivity

Apex Twin - come to daddy:

Hyper-real, hybridity

Dead set Divina zombie:

Hyper real, bricolage

Conclusion to today:
Nostalgia - a way of escapism
How do you create nostalgia? Intertextuality

H/W: Watch wreck it ralph and write:
- Its 12/03/14 on the blog 
How does ralph fit the words that are on the blog?
What is traditional/not traditional about him?