Lesson

Voyeurism - the idea of looking at someone without them realising, looking at them in a sexual way, gives the person watching power 

Panopticon - a prison designed so that all prisoners could be seen at any time by guards and other prisoners 

Simulacra - a simulation/made up design of someone or something, artificial   

Hyper reality - an idea of a world that is not the regular reality and is somewhat distorted, exaggerated 

Society of the spectacle - representation has replaced social life, idea of style over substance, relationships via media, consumerism - everything has a price tag and becomes a product 

Ellie's paragraph

Black Mirror 3 VS Wreck It Ralph 1.5

Looking at both Wreck It Raplh and Black Mirror at a stylistic point of view, black mirror contains Simularca, hyper reality and also dystopia and intertextuality with in the series. Wreck It Ralph also contains other styles with in the film such as, hyper reality and intertextuality.

Looking at it from a theoretical black mirror contains, Simularca and artificial, voyeursm and dystopia this is also a channel 4 telly series where as wreck it Ralph contains grand narrative WIR is a Disney film 

From a historical view black mirror no morality or grand , all about the individual, no belonging in morality or beliefs. Wreck it Ralph does not weaken the grand narrative 

Notes from lesson

Black mirror 

+terminology 

-Simularca and artificial 

-voyersim 

-dystopia 

-commodification - something become value- £ charity and Valentine's Day 

- white bear - justice 

Theoretical approach - deeper meaning with in the text - this is a text that deliberity done 

Script write - Charlie Brooker - post modernism theory 

Stylistic - hyper reality and Simularca - reality vs artificiality

Intertextuality - Jameson - the purge 

The trupman show - big brother - Jurassic park - Britians for talent and also Xfactor - Facebook 

Distopia - looked horrible 

History - modisum - post modisum -- very one is individual - segregated in rooms 

Morality - no right no wrong 

Wreck it Ralph 

Stylistic - strong 

Theorehical - not atrong 

Lyotard - still has grand narratives 

Historically - both yea and no 

1982 tron ----> wreck it Ralph 

Style:

Both are recognise as post modisum strongly 

Wreck it Ralph - jntertextaulity 

White bear - Simularca and hyper reality 

Both similar but slightly different 

To what extent

 Black mirror 

Theoretical:

Wreck it Ralph Disney film - has grand narrative 

White bear - channel 4 series - very post modisum - simularcra  and artificial - voyersim and dystopia 

More theory to apply then wreck it Ralph 

Both 

Historical

Wreck it Ralph does not weaker the grand narrative or post modisum 

Barrier between real and artificial - weakened maybe completely collapsed 

Black mirror no morality - no grand narratives - bleak and empty so therefore very Pomo 

 

Black Mirror better 

Black mirror 3 

Wreck it Ralph 1.5 

Lesson notes

Commodification - something becomes valued by money - white bear it's justice 

- how does wreck it Ralph and black mirror compare? 

Wreck it Ralph - style (very strong) 

                           Theoretical (not strong but still has grand narratives)

                          Historically (yes and no) 

Theoretical approach: - deliberate

- Charlie broker knows Pomo theory 

Black mirror: 

Stylistic: 

- simulation - reality v/s artificial 

- hyper reality 

- dystopia 

- intertextuality - the purge, saw, the Truman show, big brother, britains got talent, sims & wii characters, Facebook 

Historical: 

- individualism - separated in rooms

- morality - no right or wrong

- no grand narratives 

- bleak and empty 

- very Pomo 

Both texts are strongly stylistically post modern: 

Wreck it Ralph strongest stylistic approach is intertextuality 

Black mirror strongest stylistic approach is simulacra & hyper reality 

Theoretical - black mirror is very post modern, wreck it Ralph is not post modern (Disney) 

Wreck it Ralph does not weaken the grand narratives of modernism 

It does strengthen the barrier between real and artificial has collapsed - lost 

When comparing black mirror and wreck it Ralph, black mirror is more post modernism than wreck it Ralph. Black mirror shows strengths of post modernism through style, theories and history. Black mirror has simulacra, hyper reality, dystopia and intertextuality. It strongly has simulacra and hyper reality as reality and artificial are strongly shown as people live in a technological world. In wreck it Ralph, style is also very strong. Intertextuality is the strongest post modern style in this film, as well as including simulacra and hyper reality. Black mirror also has a post modern theoretical approach as there is lack of morality and grand narrative and belief. Wreck it Ralph is not post modern in the theoretical approach as it does have grand narrative and morality, keeping to the modern approach. This is most likely because it's a Disney film. Black mirror is also post modern in the historical approach as everyone is separated and they only love themselves and there is no morality. Wreck it Ralph shows post modern historical theories however is shows modernism as well. It still has grand narratives, however it breaks the barrier between real and artificial. Therefore black mirror is more post modern than wreck it Ralph.  

Celebrates the artificial - they are living a virtual life - doubord

No grand narratives or morality 

Voyerism - Foucault - naked woman, kissing 

Collapses audience - the people have become the game 

Baudrillard - hyper real and simulacra, the more artificial the better, society of the sceptical 

Foucault - voyerism 

Debord - real vs artificial, famous for being famous, popular 

Bens paragraph

In comparison Black mirror in contrast to Wreck it Ralph strongly portrays a higher level of post modernism. Black mirror exercises simularcra, hyper-reality and distopia. This gives a sense of illusion and no belief in progress, the characters in the TV series are left feeling empty and are indivualised rejecting the grand narrative. Black Mirror is also Commodernised by the use of buying justice. Wreck it Ralph in contrast strongly demonstrates intertextuality as there are no new ideas. Looking at both, Black mirror purposely uses Post modernity whereas Wreck it ralph doesn't as it is a Disney film. Wreck it Ralph has modern elements for example Grand narratives like Marriage and religious beliefs.

Foucault Notes & lesson notes

- Voyeurism - watching someone without them knowing 
- Panopitcalisation was an innovate prison design in which all inmates could be watched or be under threat of being watched - no privacy
- There is no privacy, anyone can see where you are and what you are doing. 
- Watching (voyeurism) is an act of power and control from the viewer. We are never ourselves in social situations until we are away from others controlling sight. 
- People act differently and the act if watching becomes an act of control.
- Our culture has become a prison - we are part of the prison because we are constantly watching each other etc. 
- Media can be argued to 'manufacture consent' of CCTV
- Big Brother has its name because it comes from the term big brother state which describes how society is constantly trying to monitor everything we do.
- Social networking and the internet gives us great control over voyeurism. 
- growing popularity of social networking has reflected how dependant 

Jameson - style 

Lyotard - theoretical, historical (time) 

Baudrilliard - people are getting 'lost' between what's real and what isn't, hyper sexuality, false sense of reality, lack of emotion, belief (also links to debord), disappointed when you come to reality 

Foucault - 

Debord - no such thing as morality, 

Post-modernism is a theory, not truth! - paradox/hypocritical 

Become about the individual 

Power

Black mirror:

15 million merits 

White bear 

Nostalgia from playing games

From the games listed these are the only ones I felt any nostalgia for:

Fix it Felix

 I feel as though I only felt nostalgia for this game because I have watched the movie. It almost feels as though the characters are real and alive because that's what they were like in the movie.

Mario Bros

 This is almost the exact replica of a mario bros game that used to be on Nintendo DS. I used to play this game and it is exactly the same as that used to be.

Mario Kart 

This game is a replica of the game Mario Kart from Nintendo Wii. 

Pac Man

 This game has been around for years and was available on arcade games, computers etc.

Sonic

This game is very old and I used to play this on Sega and PS2. This looks almost identical to the old SEGA game