Why are some media products described as 'postmodern'?
- Term aimed at literate audiences and provides opposing views on culture, literature, fiction, scientific reason and hierarchy.
- Generally subvert and reject the grand narrative ideas - love, war, death, science, religion - of the previous modernism era. Postmodernism within film, more specifically, refers to the use of hyper reality, intertextuality, embracing paradoxes, and playing with conventions.
"Postmodern media blur the boundary between reality and representation". Discuss this idea with reference to media texts that you have studied.
- Hyperreality could be argued as one of the main features of postmodernism across various media texts and platforms; it is an entirely postmodern idea that suggests that some sense of a 'false reality' has been created, and although it may appear real within media, it is in fact not.
- An example of this would be 'The Lego Movie'.
Explain how certain types of media can be described a 'Postmodern'.
- Some media texts are designed to be read by the literate and often have links to other texts.
- An example of this would be the film 'Drive' featuring Ryan Gosling which features links to other texts and postmodern aspects.
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