Postmodernism

Question 1

Irony

Answer 1

When the opposite thing happens than what you would expect to happen.

Question 2

Parody or Homage

Answer 2

Homage- paying respects to genre, style, person, product

Parody- making fun of genre, style, person, product

Question 3

Bricolage

Answer 3

Sampling and using older media products in your own

Question 4

Intertextuality

Answer 4

References to other media texts

Question 5

Fragmented narrative

Answer 5

Non-linear narrative

Question 6

Self-reflexive

Answer 6

Acknowledging and engaging directly with the audience; aware they’re in a media product

Question 7

Common themes

Answer 7

What if, the future, technology, human existence

Question 8

Loss of reality/Lacking verisimilitude

Answer 8

More artifice, less verisimilitude (amount of realism)

Question 9

What is postmodernism in art?

Answer 9

• Broad term (art, literature, architecture, culture etc)
• Reaction to assumed scientific or objective efforts to explain reality of how societies should act
• Rejection of structures ‘grand narratives’
• Always considers contextual factors (not absolute)
• Truth is partial

Question 10

Define ‘Technoculture’

Answer 10

• Post-industrial, Information age
• Tech is central focus
• Understanding of the real mediated by simulations of the real

Question 11

Jean Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra

Answer 11

• Simulacrum(a)- image of representation of smth (Latin- simulation)
• Copies depict things that had no original or og is lost
• Simulation is the process- imitation of a real-world process over time

Question 12

Jean Baudrillard’s theory of Hyper-reality

Answer 12

Inability to distinguish from a simulation of reality (doesn’t reflect the actual reality)

Question 13

What was the argument of Baudrillard’s ‘Simulacra and Simulation’ (1981)?

Answer 13

• Concerned about impact of images on society- info overload leading to passivity
• Postmodern Media culture is artificial- now substitute signs of the real for the real
• We live in hyperreality- we don’t want the real
• Identified order or symbols

Question 14

According to Baudrillard’s ‘Simulacra and Simulation’ (1981) what is the procession of the simulacra?

Answer 14

1. Reflection- faithful copy
2. Mask- perverted, unfaithful copy
3. Illusion- cover-up
4. Pure (simulacra)- no relation to og

Question 15

What is implosion?

Answer 15

The media’s constant recycling of itself and its signs