Intertextuality
Distopia
Simulacra
Bricolage
Pastiche & parody
Superficial
Nostalgia
Hyper-reality
Prosumers
Grand narratives
9/11 video:
Destruction
Death
Smoke
Collapse
Wreck it Ralph video connection with 9/11:
Buildings are being destroyed
One is sad while the other is fun
Post-modernism is making things more joyful and taking things from reality, turning it into hyper-reality, making it more enjoyable to watch.
Collapsed - structure - genre, narrative
Post modernism is about structures collapsing
Existing structures/ traditional ideas is modernism
Post modernism and modernism are binary opposites
- Theres no depth behind fame
- Fame is almost a simulation
- You're just famous to be famous
Why is the Cadburys Gorilla ad Post-modern?
What does FLOW and IMMERSION mean?
Part 2 of the lesson:
What are some key Media texts?
What are the 3 types of Post-Modernism?
Why is Grand Theft Auto Post-modern?
- Subvert our traditional ideas about distiniction between reality and simulation
- It immerses the person into a convincing and believable world
Why is the Cadburys Gorilla ad Post-modern?
- It is a realistic looking gorilla being affected by music then playing the drums - hyper real
- There is no story in the advert and no connection to chocolate
What does FLOW and IMMERSION mean?
- Immersion: describes how the gamer invests imagination in the game and is absorbed into the game-world
- Flow: A state whereby an activity demands incrementally harder but increasingly pleasurable and achievable challenged while providing regular feedback on degrees of success. Flow makes immersion difficult while also feeling creating and pleasurable, so the feeling of being lost in the game-world leads to an enhanced state of 'happy hyper-reality'
Boudrillad - can't tell the difference between reality and hyper reality - distortion of reality
Lyotard -
Simulacra - the simulation of the online you
Nostalgia - remembering things from the past - good memories from being a child
Post modernism is recognised because there is no depth or meaning - superficial
Family used to be the most important thing,
Religion/Science,
Nation - believe in their country
Post modernism is not a belief in nothing but is a group of ideas which have no been grouped together
Money and technology has built post-modernism
Part 2 of the lesson:
What are some key Media texts?
What are the 3 types of Post-Modernism?
- intertextual - one media text referring to another
- Parody - mocking something in an original way
- Simulacra (Simulation) - the blurring of real and 'simulated' is a familiar feature of postmodern texts,
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