POMO Essay 1

How can Django Unchained be viewed as a postmodern film?

Structure:

• Define POMO
• Introduce your text

1. What is it? Plot etc
2. Why is it postmodern?

Intertextual references - Three specific examples. 
You could  refer to:

• Bricolage (collage/ mash-up)
• Homage (sincere use of...)
• Pastiche (imitation of...)
• Parody (makes fun of...)

Criticisms of POMO

• Not a film
• Historical deafness
• High & low culture
• Frederic Jameson - vacuous, self referential jokes, circular references

Predict the future of POMO (film)
Examples:

• Films with fragmented/ non linear narratives 
• More mash ups of genres
• CGI actors and real actors