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Why are some media products described as 'Postmodern'? (Sian Lynes)

May 20, 2013

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Hyperreality examples

1.A magazine photo of a model that has been touched up with a computer. 2.Films in which characters and settings are either digitally enhanced or created entirely from CGI (e.g.: 300 , Sin City, The Avengers (any super hero movie). 3.A well manicured garden (nature as hyperreal). 4.Any massively promoted versions of historical or present "facts" (e.g. " General Ignorance " from QI , where the questions have seemingly obvious answers, which are actually wrong). 5. Professional sports athletes as super, invincible versions of the human beings . 6.Many world cities and places which did not evolve as functional places with some basis in reality, as if they were creatio ex nihilo (literally 'creation out of nothing'): Disney World ; Dubai ; Celebration, Florida ; and Las Vegas . 7. TV and film in general (especially "reality" TV ), due to its creation of a world of fantasy and its dependence that the viewer will engage with these ...

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Postmodern Audiences

The impact of postmodern media on audiences and the ways in which we think about texts. How do post-modern media texts challenge traditional text-reader relations and the concept of representation? In what ways do media audiences and industries operate differently in a post-modern world? • have audiences become accustomed to the stimulation and excitement of spectacular films/games and a sense of spectacle has become something that (young?) audiences increasingly demand from cultural experiences? • has narrative coherence become less important for audiences? • in terms of ideas, has cultural material become more simplistic and superficial, and audiences are no longer so concerned with the process of understanding a text. Think here about a film like Moulin Rouge where the plot is in some sense irrelevant to the overall impact of the film. • has the attention span of audiences reduced as they become increasingly accustomed to the spectacle-driven and episodic nature of postmodern texts ...

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