Postmodern Notes
- Erosion of aesthetic and stylist boundries-Mixing different of different styles, genre and artistic conventions.
- They are desgined to be read by a literate audinces-Exhibiting many manyb traits of intertextuality.
- Postmodern texts will will employ a range of referential techniques- Bricolage
- Appropriation
- Parody
- Irony
- Pastiche
- Playfulness
- Hybridisation
- Fragmentation
- Discontinuty
- Bricolage
- Relexivity and self-consciousness
is a term referring to the "best of breed" (from some elitist viewpoint) cultural products. What falls in this category is defined by the most powerful sections of society, i.e. its social, political, economic and intellectual elite.
Low Art Culture
Low culture is a derogatory term for popular culture ; everything in society that has mass appeal. Low culture is a term for some forms of popular culture that that have mass appeal.
Postmodernity = breaking of boundaries
Postmodernism Reproduction and re-consumption-Text has become mere repetition and imitation
CRITICISMS
Appropriation, re-appropriation and borrowing = declining emphasis on originality
The death of the AUTHOR
Dick Hebdige - the author = no longer required to invent by simply “rework” or rearrange.
Key Theorist = Fredric Jameson
Key ideas
Depthlessness
Nostalgia/ erosion of history
Parody
Pastiche
Depthlessness
Postmodern culture is driven by a consumer culture that celebrates the surface.
He states the postmodern condition is “ a new kind of flatness, of depthlessness, a new kind of superficiality in the most literal sense”.
Nostalgia
In the postmodern era our historical past is represented “not through its content but through glossy stylistic means, conveying ‘pastness’ by the glossy qualities of the image”
Postmodern text “imitate old, dead styles” through pastiche-Loss of historical depth
Parody
A parody has a purpose Jameson saw parody as the comic intention to ‘produce an imitation which mocks the original’ that acknowledges what it imitates.
A parody has a purpose: Ridicule Satirize Polemical
Pastiche is a “blank parody, a parody that has lost its sense of humour”
Pastiche = less about comedy and more about plagiarism.
Jameson condemns the world of pastiche as “ a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible”
Playfulness Irony – when a piece of art or literature is self-consciously doing theopposite of what it appears to be doing. l The idea that postmodern text takes ideas/styles/ designs and play around/experiments with them.
Postmodern novels and films deal extensively with parody and pastiche and like to play with audiences expectations of narrative and genre.
They subvert traditional narrative and hybridise genres
The postmodern text is self-reflexive demonstrating an awareness of itself as a text.
This is where a text knows it’s a text and draws attention to its structure, production and/ or conventions to the audience.
Low culture is a derogatory term for popular culture ; everything in society that has mass appeal. Low culture is a term for some forms of popular culture that that have mass appeal.
Postmodernity = breaking of boundaries
- Between art and everyday life
- Between past, present and future
- Between reality and fiction
- Between public sphere and private sphere
Postmodernism Reproduction and re-consumption-Text has become mere repetition and imitation
CRITICISMS
Appropriation, re-appropriation and borrowing = declining emphasis on originality
The death of the AUTHOR
Dick Hebdige - the author = no longer required to invent by simply “rework” or rearrange.
Key Theorist = Fredric Jameson
Key ideas
Depthlessness
Nostalgia/ erosion of history
Parody
Pastiche
Depthlessness
Postmodern culture is driven by a consumer culture that celebrates the surface.
He states the postmodern condition is “ a new kind of flatness, of depthlessness, a new kind of superficiality in the most literal sense”.
Nostalgia
In the postmodern era our historical past is represented “not through its content but through glossy stylistic means, conveying ‘pastness’ by the glossy qualities of the image”
Postmodern text “imitate old, dead styles” through pastiche-Loss of historical depth
Parody
A parody has a purpose Jameson saw parody as the comic intention to ‘produce an imitation which mocks the original’ that acknowledges what it imitates.
A parody has a purpose: Ridicule Satirize Polemical
Pastiche is a “blank parody, a parody that has lost its sense of humour”
Pastiche = less about comedy and more about plagiarism.
Jameson condemns the world of pastiche as “ a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible”
Playfulness Irony – when a piece of art or literature is self-consciously doing theopposite of what it appears to be doing. l The idea that postmodern text takes ideas/styles/ designs and play around/experiments with them.
Postmodern novels and films deal extensively with parody and pastiche and like to play with audiences expectations of narrative and genre.
They subvert traditional narrative and hybridise genres
- Disjointed narrative involve fragmentation and discontinuity where the storylines and characterization are broken up, disturbed and don’t follow the usual/ conventional pattern.
- Dystopian narrative means narratives become more negative. Technology is seen as destructive and causing chaos rather than inducing progress and order. Often these texts suggest a lack of hope in the future
The postmodern text is self-reflexive demonstrating an awareness of itself as a text.
This is where a text knows it’s a text and draws attention to its structure, production and/ or conventions to the audience.
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