POMO - Essay 1

How can Deadpool 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-ups)
• 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