Sophie Bishop

Wreck it Ralph:

It looks postmodern, because it is a modern technology, animated, so the style is very colourful and hyper real. Jamerson's theory of nostalgia, is used, the many video game characters shown in the film, create the sense of nostalgia. Hyper reality is a huge theme within Wreck it Ralph, Baudrillards hyper reality. The cartoon/animated style is post modern and hyper real. The film does not follow modernist theory's and theorist, but post modern. The 'grand narratives' such as bad v good, and the hero always wins, is deconstructed in the film. As Ralph is sympathized, and becomes a hero figure. Following Lyotards's beliefs, that truth needs to be deconstructed.

Bricolage - The process of adaptation or improvisation, aspects of one style are given different meanings. Post modern because they are taking a modern theory, and creating a new one.

A car made out of different sweets, theme of the game.

Parody - Referring to existing texts, making out of them, or the creator. Post modern because they are referring to sometimes modernist texts, and making fun our of them.

Ralph is at a group meeting with all villains from different games, alcoholic anonymous parody.

Pastiche - Homage to existing texts. Post modern because they are using existing texts, and sometimes use them as interetexuality.

Homage to Wreck it Ralph

Hybridity - Combining of two genres, thriller + horror. Recycling old. Post modern because they are taking a modernist theory, and creating a new genre.

Sci Fi + Action

Hyper-reality - Unrealistic, Photoshop an image. Post modern because of the post modern style, allowing you to alter real texts into an enhanced reality.

The 'real life' the arcade is cartoon/animated as well as inside the machines.

Intertextuality - A reference/apart of an existing text in a new text. Post modern because it is reusing previous texts to create new ones, and to have a sense of familiarity/nostalga.

Pac Man

Style over Substance - the look over the content, music video. Post modern because now with bands such as One Direction, the style the way they look is seen over the actual substance/music.

Retro

Self-reflexivity - constructed simulation or reproduction. Using hyper reality and using it to make reference. Post modern because it includes hyper reality and simulation.

Prosumers - An amateur/audience who creates their own music or other media texts. Post modern because a production company and music labels are not needed (professionals, with technology now an amateur can do it themselves.

Nostalga -  sense of familiarity in a text, a past text relived, warm feeling happy. Post modern because it is using intertexuality.

Wreck it Ralph

Grand- Narrative/Meta-narrative - History, science, politics and religion theories combines, allows us to come closer to the absolute/perfect world. - Lyotard distrusts this, and wants us to deconstruct the truth. Post modern because Lyotard want to dismantle this modernist theory.

Popular (low) culture - mass appeal

Simulacra - realist forms of media, part of hyper-reality. Reality it's self is saturated. Post modern because it includes hyper reality.