Essay Plan - To what extent is WIR a post modern text?

Plan:

Jameson
Intertexuality
Bricolage
Nostalga
Hybridity
Parody
Pastiche

Lyotard
Grand Narrative

Baudrillard
Hyper reality - Simulacra - WIR Animated 

Foucault - Surveillance -Penoption

Dubord - Society of the Spectacle

Commodification - something becomes valued £ example valentines day  and charity 

In white bear justice is commodified

Black mirror looks at the theoretical approach  and is deliberate 

This is a text which deliberately feeds into post modernism. 

How does wreck it Ralph and black mirror compare. 

WIR - does it do it knowingly ? style yes, theoretical no, lyotard grand narrative yes religion nuclear family, historical yes and no  1982 tron to WIR 

BM - Charlie Brooker, understands post modern theory so deliberately puts these theory's in, yes stylistic hyper reality , simulation reality v artificial, historical no grand narratives individuals

Jameson you can't make anything real- cultural recycling white bear- the purge, saw, the Truman show, Big Brother, Jurassic park, west world 

15 Million merits intertexual reference- Britain's got talent, X factor, sims, wii characters, big brother, Facebook.

Both BM and WIR very stylistic 

WIR strongest intertextuality does not weaken the grand narratives however the barrier between reality and artificial had collapsed weakened 

BM strongest simulacra and hyper reality. Does weaken grand narratives, 

Black mirror is more post modern 

BM 3 WIR1 1/2

Black mirror is more post modern than Wreck it Ralph. Black mirror is post modern in terms of historical, theoretical and stylistic. Whereas Wreck it Ralph is only postmodern in stylistic terms and some historical terms. BM and WIR use Intertextuality references, such as Mario cart and halo for WIR and the Truman show and big brother for BM, simulacra snd hyper realty. But only BM follows theoretical theory of PM, because WIR is By Disney, and BM is made by Charlie Brooker because he understands the post modern theory. They both hold some historical theories, BM more because it weakens grand narratives, there is no morality or belief in family or religion. But WIR does not weaken these grand narrative because their is belief in God and the nuclear family. WIR is slightly post modern because of it relating to Tron which merged the wall between reality and artificial.

Black mirror wins!

WIR

• Structures are blurring/breaking, lack of belief and rejecting traditional ideas.
• Genres are merged together from the different games.
• Representation of gender, Felix is feminine Calhourn is masculine
• Grand Narrative - good beats evil (Disney) technically - but Ralph is bad to begin with
• Audience vs text - No its a film modern
• Jameson
• Lots of interetexuality - Heros Duty - Halo/COD and Sugar Rush - Mario cart
• Bricolge - lots of games come together to create original ideas
• Parody - Alcoholic meeting - counseling with all the evil characters
• Pastiche - to older games to reach parents and middle aged people 90's games
• Hybridity - in terms on the genres mixed together
• Lyotard
• Empty/meaningless - lack of belief - Religion - out of order sighn, high angle, god like power, nuclear family - Felix and Calhourn marry and patriotism Venvelope - princess - but not stereotypical one
• Style over substance - Retro games?
• Baudrillard
• Hypereality - cartoon, Calhourn has emotion - husband to be is killed by the bug machines

Simulcra - simulation of reality

• Hyper reality simulacra - Baudrillard - Jameson
• Disney so can not deliberately fedd post modernism into the texts
• Grand Narrative - morality, Nuclear family, religion and Marriage
• Intertexuality