WHAT IS POSTMODERNISM?

Ideas to include in essay.

• Movement of media.
• Rejection of modernism.
• Breaking down boundaries - no more genres, conventions.
• Homage - taking past influences and putting it together. E.g. Kill Bill
• Pastiche - Parody, making fun. E.g. Scary Movie
• Replacing idea of reality with a reality - Exaggeration. 'Hyper-reality'
• Interacting with the text - 'pro-sumers', have to think and question about what you're watching.
• You have to understand the history to understand the context of post modernism.
• Bricolage.
• Grand Narratives - Modernism, religion, science, politics. To make it post modernism, you take aspects of it and combine it.

POSTMODERNISM - wants to see the PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE at the same time.