- central idea is breaking or collapsing structures
- rejects traditional ideas
- emptiness, lack of beliefs
- End of WW2 - mucilage bomb
- after modernism
- technology & consumerism (image) - simulacra
- post modernism is a theory
- relationship in modernism
1960s:
Civil rights, hippies, change - traditional ideas broken
Weakening
Strengthening from 1960s - this is what we need to examine in media texts
Now:
Media - radio, newspapers, TV etc.
'new media' - YouTube, social media, PROSUMERS
1. central idea is breaking or collapsing structures
2. rejects traditional ideas
3. emptiness, lack of beliefs
Video 1:
Nuclear bomb but character survives the bomb - it's meant to destroy everything - hyper real
Video 2:
Breaking of boundaries - what's real and what's hyper real - technology is taking over
Video 3:
The future of technology has changed his image, therefore changing him as a person - lack of belief that he could survive as a regular human and a lack of belief in the emergency services because he does it better than them although he is a robot l
Time:
Still lived in modernism until 1960s, belief in structures started weakening, rejecting traditional ideas
Video 1: nucular bomb, there is no hope for people, people wondered why to follow rules when you are going to die anyway
Video 2: computer games are simulation and hyper real (post modern), games need to be controlled, Tron is an example of the fears culture has of the virtual world confusing with the real world
Video 3: film about the virtual world coming into the real world
Use of technology has strengthened in 30 years
Lack of belief:
Video 1: given up seeing the hatred and sees the enemy as just someone in help
Video 2: lack of belief in human intelligence,
Video 3: lost belief in police and government to protect us, lack of belief in human intelligence, keep the hand, heart and face, they keep him alive through technology
1980 is significant because there is the mix of reality and hyper reality, computers
1. Need to understand modernism to be able to understand post-modernism
2. It's breaking the structures of modernism
3. Post modernism is a binary opposite of modernism - binary opposite is a modernism theory but they exist in post-modernism - paradox
4. Post modern is a paradox, hypocritical
Essay plan sheet:
Grand narrative - modernism idea
Blurs the good vs evil (wreck it Ralph) - conforms to grand narrative but it's complicated
3 states of POMO
Period of history - rejects modernism - lyotard
Stylistic - strongers since 1980s - looks like - Jameson
Theoretical - thinks like - baudrillard
Find examples of wreck it Ralph on words on the blog
1945 -weakening of belief, modernity, weakening belief in progress, religion etc.
Post modernism - teenager
Adolescence - want to be an adult but still act in a teenage way
1980s to 2014 technology strengthened
Film is about video games
Para 1 - collapsing structures - lyotard
Para 2 - style - Jameson
Para 3 - theoretical - Baudrillard - what it thinks like
But it is a Disney film - educated audience
Examples of
Morality:
Video 1 - he believes he should risk his life for hers, but she saves him anyway
Video 3 - Ralph gives a cherry to a character with no game (homeless),
Felix invites Ralph in the party even though nobody wants him there
Dystopia;
Video 1 - bugs take over sugar rush and make it turn bad - however it gets better
Video 3 -
Positive resolution:
Video 1 - Ralph is about to die and gets saved my vanelopie
Sugar rush gets fixed and saved
Video 3 -
Democracy
Video 1 - the leader of the world dies because he was bad - everyone is now equal
Video 3 - Ralph isn't equal to the other people in his game - they leave him out of the party
Intertextuality references
Video 1 - shows other video games in the scared
Video 2 - shows sonic's game and all other games, lots of references - no belief in progress so no new games - have to look bad
Video 3 - pac man game and other characters from other games
Sonic & pac man
Tapper game
Ralph - modern narrative
Good wins at the end - complicated because Ralph is the 'bad guy'
Venelope chooses to be president instead of princess - independence - modernism
Bricolage - other games go into wreck it Ralph's game
Simulacra - animated human, normal
Girl is part of the game - controlling felix
Ralph - post modern
Felix - modern
Why is wreck it Ralph post modern because of its style?
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