POMO Revision

Bricolage - The process of assembling artifacts from bits and pieces of other things:
1.) Genre cross over
2.) Recycling old forms
3.) Mixing high and low culture (Kitsch)

POMO Key Words:
Intertextuality - The multiple way in which a text is entangled with or contains references to other texts.
Pastiche - (copying in tribute) and parody (copying in jest).
Style over content - The image and visual excitement over narrative coherence.
Confusions over time and space: The subversion of classical cinematic conventions; fragmented narratives; time bending.
Self reflexiveness/ Self referentiality - Texts which openly reflect upon their own processes of artful composition.
Metafiction - Fiction that deals, often playfully and self referentially, with fiction and its conventions.
Flattened of Affect - Technology, Violence, Drugs, and media lead to detached, emotionally lives.
Hyper reality: Technologically created realities are often more authentic or desirable than the real world.
Altered states - Drugs and technology provide a darker, sometimes psychedelic, gateway to new internal realities.

Features of Postmodern films:
Pastiche
Self-refernential, tongue in cheek, rehashes of classic pop culture
Flattening of affect
Technology, Violence, drugs and the media lead to detached, emotionless, unauthentic lives
Hyper reality
Technologically created realities are often more authentic or desirable than the real world
Time bending
Time travel provides another way to shape reality and play 'what if' games with society
Altered states
Drugs and technology provide a darker, sometimes psychedelic, gateway to new internal realities
More human than human
Artificial intelligence, robotics, and cybernetics seek to enhance, or replace, humanity

Postmodern Ideas:
1.) We no longer have any idea sense of the difference between real things and images of them, or real experiences and simulations of them.
2.) The distinction between media and reality has collapsed, and we now live in a 'relaity' defined by images and representations - a state of simulacrum.
3.) Postmodernism rejects the idea that any media product or text is of any greater value than another. All judgements of value are merely taste.
4.) Culture 'eats itself' and there is no longer anything new to produce or distribute.
5.) All ideas of 'the truth' are just competing - or discourse - and what we believe to be the truth at any point is merely the 'winning' discourse.
6.) Postmodern texts are said to be inter textual and self-referential - they break the rules of realism to explore the nature of their own status as constructed texts.