Postmodernism checklist - not definitive -- well, it wouldn't be would it? - no real truth and all that...
Can you connect these to the texts you have studied?
- Fragmented structure/non-linear narrative
- Challenging of meta-narrative (Lyotard and Strinati)
- Playing with time and space (Strinati)
- Self-reflexivity
- Emphasis of style over substance and context (Strinati)
- Challenging cultural imperialism and mass production
- Conventions of genre challenged/subverted
- Breakdown of distinctions between high art and pop culture (Strinati)
- Asks questions not giving answers, allowing audience interpretation
- Juxtaposing old and new to make new meaning (bricolage)
- Intertextuality
- Multiplicity of meanings linked to audience interpretations
- Post WW2-war being a catalyst for postmodernism
- Parody and pastiche – creating something new through imitation, homage (tribute)
- Web 2.0 and new technologies allowing people to become producers/celebrities outside traditional/mainstream methods
- Instantaneity – accessibility now
- Culture is no longer viewed as art mirroring life but a reality in itself (Strinati)
- Experimentation with new forms – not necessarily the ‘glossy’ Hollywood approach
- Meaning and purpose holds more significance than the skill involved in making it
- Photoshop movement changing how we see reality
- Cult of celebrity – celebrity obsessed society – style over substance
- Truth is created and doesn’t exist in any objective sense
- Text goes beyond what it is and comments on society
- No single definition – open to interpretation – concept crosses art, media, literature, architecture, music, society
- States of hyper reality (Baudrillard and simulacra)
Thanks to Mr Smith for the text and Sian Lynes for the image.
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