Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Essay Plan Simple

What is Postmodern Media? (Jan 2010)
INTRO Definition

Postmodernism is a set of ideas used to describe the state in which we live and postmodern media, reflects these ideas. Unlike modernism, which searched for a truth and meaning, postmodernism rejects the idea that there is a truth and claims that …

(Theory)Baudrillard - Hyperreality

Reality TV is often described as postmodern because it reflects the world that Baudrillard describes. Whereas in then past, soaps were the popular form of TV in which it was clear that there was a story and actors now it is programmes like X-factor or Big Brother. (Explain and give specific examples - blurring boundaries between audience and the media text = Social Networks)

For a film or TV programme to be considered Postmodern it needs to contain a number of elements which are considered postmodern as they reflect the theory and ideas behind the movement.


Stylistic Elements:
Bricolage -
Intertextuality
Pastiche & Parody
Style over content
Confusions over time and space
Self reflexiveness/self referentiality
Simulacra & Hyper-reality (Baudrillard)
(Discuss with reference to Scott Pilgrim) 


Link back to theories in every paragraph eg bricolage links to the theory that nothing is new, everything is recycled - Jameson)


Thematic Elements (theoretical Pomo)
Cynicism, challenging metanarratives (Lyotard)
Distopia
Simulacra & Hyper-reality (Baudrillard)
Society of the Spectacle (Debord)
15 million Merits


Do these challenge audience relationship with the text like X Factor or Big Brother?

Conclusions – future?
What do you think will happen?
growth of celebrity, blending of real with fiction may become norm and not recognised as pm like…

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