CIN105Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Fredric Jameson, Social Movement, Melodrama
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Topic: the postmodern film, date: tuesday, february 2nd 2016. Agenda: introduction to postmodernism, defining attributes of postmodernism. This week we look at the postmodern film and its relationship to postmodernism. artistic forms, some of the historical factors that cultivated postmodernism are worth noting. Among the most significant for our purposes are the rapid development and ongoing convergence of different media and the proliferation of screens in our world since they have created a condition of media saturation. As a result it claims that we must resign ourselves to citing and reciting past forms, past iconography, past traditions. One of the most noteworthy theorists of the postmodern, fredric. Postmodern texts cite other texts by making explicit or: intermixture of (cid:498)high art(cid:499) and (cid:498)low culture. (cid:499) this practice serves to question prevailing distinctions between (cid:498)high(cid:499) and (cid:498)low(cid:499) and to generate works, a spirit of irreverence and irony. Artists working in a postmodern vein are: self-reflexivity.
