Tuesday 23 February 2021

Baudrillard and Post Modernism

 Post Modernism

  • Irony
  • Parody – without respect, often making fun
  • Homage – paying respect from genre / style / product.
  • Bricolage – sampling and using older media products to create a new one.
  • Intertextual References
  • Fragmented narrative – nonlinear / chronological structure. May include flashbacks, crosscut scenes etc.
  • Self-reflexivity – aware they are in a media product, direct address breaking the fourth wall. May talk to other characters about being in a media product.
  • Common Themes – what if ….?
  • Loss of reality – lack of verisimilitude (lacks realism)
  • Tends to be a product from the 80’s 90’s and onwards.

 

Baudrillard

  • Reality VS Artificial
  • Loss of reality, used to be real stories and people everything has become heightened reality however still has elements of reality, and then there is simulacra = Artificial copies not really linked to reality.
  •  Simulacra become hard to find the difference from reality = hyperreality.
  • Audiences prefer simulacra to reality.
  • Simulacra = plural
  • Simulacrum = single

 

Links to set texts:

 

Stranger Things

  • Is a simulacrum, the plot if far removed from reality, although there are traces of it.
  • Intertextual references to numerous movies.
  • Pays homage to the 80’s.
  • Fragmented narrative
  • Common surreal themes

 

Titanium

  • Is a simulacrum, the plot if far removed from reality, although there are traces of it.
  • Pays homage to Super 8 and the 80s
  • Intertextual references to Super 8
 

Stop Where You Are

  • Self-reflexivity - direct address/ breaking the fourth wall
  • Fragmented narrative
 

Jungle Book

  • Is a simulacrum, the plot if far removed from reality
  • Bricolage of the original movie and book
  • Pays homage to the book / movie.

 

Minecraft

  • Is a simulacrum, the plot if far removed from reality
  • Parody to various media products fan made
  • Homage to various media products fan made

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