Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Key Terms and Examples

Characteristics for the way post modernism looks 

Key terms 

Simulacra - realist forms of media, part of hyperreality. Reality it's self is saturated 

Parody & Pastiche - referring to existing texts. 
Homage - paying tribute to influences 
Makes sense of meaning of the reference 

Hyper reality - making something that's real simulated so it appears to be better than it originally is - photoshop 

Bricolage - the process of adaptation or improvisation, aspects of one style are given different meanings. 
Stylistic features with combination of multiple. Doctors tardis - old type writer with a modern viewer.

Intertextuality

Hybridity - mixing and sampling different types of kinds and levels. 
Recycles the old
Hip Hop - DJ Shadows 

Dislocation from time & space 

Self Reflexivity - constructed simulation or reproduction. Using hyper reality and using it to make reference. 

Wolverine - atomic bombs, and war - intertexuality 

Matrix - hyperreality 

Lady gaga telephone (parody) - parody

Death to videodrome - hyperreality 

Doctor who - hyperreality - isn't real. Also homage because it's showing Winston Churchill in a good way. Dislocation to time and space 

Pulp fiction - style over substance 

Wrecking ball - hyperreality 

Aphex Twin - simulacra - strange faces 

Dead set (Davina Zombie) - hyperreality, self reflectivity 


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