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Page 1: Postmodernism Cinema New Hollywood Film Foundation Degree

Postmodernism Cinema

New HollywoodFilm Foundation Degree

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Postmodernism Ideas

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Postmodern Ideas• Elevates popular culture• State of simulacrum: Media and reality

distinctions is blurred – Big brother. • Society defined by images and representation

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Postmodern Ideas

• No longer anything new to produce or distribute: recycling culture • Feelings or alienation, insecurity,

uncertainties• Society of the spectacle • Three minute culture - MTV• Sense of reality dominated by popular

media images

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What does it mean for film studies?

• Range of ways of thinking about a film• Can be used to analyse film style

and production• Advent of a postmodern aesthethic

in film

Lego Movie Trailer

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Postmodernist film style

Kill Bill trailer

Intertextuality Fragmentation of linear narrative hybridity Blending high art and

popular culture Parody Pastiche Irony Bricolage Surface style metafiction

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Intertextuality

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The Scream (1893), Edward Munch

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The Persistent to Time (1931), Salavdor Dali

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IntertextualityThe multiple ways in which a text is entangled with or contains references to other texts

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Intertextuality

• Borrowing and transformation of a prior text on to another • Relies on the audience's

understanding of media texts and pop culture to make a new meaning • Parody and pastiche are examples of

intertextuality

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What is the difference between parody and pastiche?

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Intertextuality

Parody Pastiche

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IntertextualityParodyImitation of another work, artist, or period often with satirical event

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IntertextualityPasticheUses imitation as a form of flattery rather than mockery and from plagiarism in its lack of deceptive intent

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Parody PasticheImitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule

Uses imitation as a form of tribute rather than mockery

Intertextuality

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Analyse and compare the intertextuality of thetrailers Scary Movie and Kill Bill.

Parody or Pastiche?

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Parody or Pastiche?

Scary Movie trailer Kill Bill trailer

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Parody- Familiarity with a formula plot,

conventions and characters. - Violate genre expectations - Incorporate plot, characters and

conventions of dozens of filmsScary Movie trailer

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Pastiche- Mixing and blurring of conventions and

boundaries. - Pays tribute to (imitating ) numerous

genres: pulp novels, blaxploitation, grind house, kung fu and western films

Kill Bill trailer

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Discussion: Pastiche – controversial?Viewpoint 1Pastiche is just recycling of art thought of - and that it lacks creativity.

Viewpoint 2 Pastiche has a distinct purpose to put old and new things together to create.

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Assembling artifacts from bits and pieces of other things- Genre Cross-over- Recycling old forms- Mixing high and low culture (kitsch)

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Look at the following images. Bricolage? Why?

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80’sPunks

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90s Fashion

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2000s Lady Gaga

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In what era is the film in set? Look at costume and production design

Amelie trailer

Amelie’s trailer

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Kill Bill clip Kill Bill scene

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Something heterogeneous - from more than one source - in origin or composition

In one word…

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HyperrealityTechnologically created realities are often more authentic or desirable than the real world. Reality and fiction are blended together – no distinction

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Hyperreality

"The simulation of something which never really existed." (Baudrillard)

"The authentic fake." (Eco)

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Las Vegas

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Other examples of hyperreality...

• “Wild ice zest berry“ – flavor that doesn’t exist • A plastic Christmas tree, more real than the

real one• Almost all video games

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Illustrate hyperreality in cinema and explainInception infinite steps Truman Shop final scene

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Complete this presentation. Research the following postmodernism concepts and use examples to illustrate your points:

• Self-reflectiveness / self-referentiality & metafiction• Altered states• Flattening of affect• More human than human• Time bending

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Self-reflectiveness / self referentiality & metafiction

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Altered states

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Flattening of affect

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More human than human

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Time Bending