How can Django Unchained be viewed as a postmodern film?
Postmodernism is a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism. Postmodernism articulates that the world is in a state of perpetual incompleteness and permanent unresolve.
The film Django Unchained combines an array of genres including 'spaghetti western' (Low budget western filmed in Italy), 'western' (wild west film starring a lone white hero) and 'blaxploitation' (black characters are cast as stereotypical people of the black community' to create an example of post modern 'mash up'. The film is directed by Quentin Tarentino (well known postmodern director) and originates from the 1966 film 'Django' and the 1959 fantasy 'Hercules Unchained'.
Firstly for us to understand the concept of Django as a postmodern film, it is essential to understand what it exactly is. POMO is the reaction to the movement of modernism and its idea that their should be a clear divide between art and popular culture. The concept of this is ignored as it states that their is no absolutes. Postmodernism appears to be deliberately bad to defy the idea that their is 'good' or 'bad' idea and that that theory is incorrect
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