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What are factors contributing to the “postmodern condition”?

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  • Loss of faith in certain philosophical traditions (enlightenment)
  • Social movement politics and identity politics (identities as people, what they mean in social contexts)
  • Enormous demographic shifts (ex. Baby Boomers)
  • The rise of multinational capitalism (corporations that do not confine themselves to one state; international labour)
  • The continuous expansion of consumer markets (constant advertising)
  • The rapid development and ongoing integration of different media (TV, social media)
  • The proliferation of screens (given more info than we can process,
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What do the factors contributing to the “postmodern condition” do?

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They provide context for the aesthetic

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What is media saturation?

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Rapid development+proliferation of screens

4
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Define postmodernism

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Comes from modernism or after modernism (post). No true original identity of its own. Both a continuation of modernism and a variation/reaction

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What do postmodernism and modernism have in common?

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  • Both refuse the notion that art has the capacity to acces some kind of truth
  • Both question existence of some definitive truth
  • Instead embrace the possibility of multiple truths, and realities in the world
  • Both characterized by a tendency to privilege fragmentation over unity, shock over beauty, and form over content
  • Capacity for art to say or do anything new
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What are the differences of postmodernism and modernism?

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  • Modernism ploy is form and exclude context
  • Postmodernist art production: what comes next (white on white)?
  • Taken to extremes
  • There are no more original ideas
  • Repeating the past, reciting past forms, past traditions
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What are the defining attributes of the postmodern film?

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  • Pastiche
  • Term postmodernism came from architecture
  • Intertextual citations
  • Intermixture of “high art” and “low culture”
  • Characterized by a general spirit of irreverence and irony
  • Self-reflexivity (different than the art and radical self-reflexivity)
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Define pastiche

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Borrowing from other artists; can employ only a single style or a mixing of multiple styles (general)

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Define intertextual citations/references

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Implicit or explicit references to other texts (specific)

10
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What are the setbacks of the self-reflexivity of the postmodern and art film?

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Audiences may not be able to get absorbed in the film as much as another

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How does self-reflexivity function in the postmodern film?

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Used to locate the text within a larger media scape with which the viewer is assumed to have extensive familiarity