CULS20015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Diegesis, Commodification
Lecture 1: what is pop music
Complex narratives
• Rise if prestige film & edgy/hip films
• 1990s: new phase of narrative complexity, shifts in temporality etc
• Shift in circuit
Excess of style
• Spectacle competes with narrative for importance
• Rapid editing and heightened use of non-diegetic music
• Fragmented narrative form
• Upset classical narrative paradigm
• Cinema about cinema -> no new ideas
Pomo
• Commodification of mass media
• Features:
o Idea of pastiche - a blank parody
o Celebration of entertainment history
o Excessive simulation
o Encourages engagement with film history
o Escapist ideologies
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