Post Modernism

MODERNISM

- Modernism is a characteristic of contemporary styles like art, music or literature which seeked to reject traditionally accepted forms and express individual representation. This era began to emerge after the industrial revolution during the late 19th century where we began to see films and scripts being created for the first time. The 50s saw a huge change to lifestyles for woman and children. Woman had more flexibility with their lives instead of just doing chores all the time and teenagers were having more fun going to dinner, dances and stuff like that.

POST-MODERNISM

- In Post Modernism on the other hand, interpretation is everything; reality only comes into being through our interpretations of what the world means to us individually. Therefore there becomes a sort of blurring on reality and fiction. We watch something on TV, we know it's completely fake but we like it because it's a complete change to what we're used to in reality.

Conventions of Post Modernism include:

Intertextuality - one media text referring to another e.g. Michael Jackson's Thriller containing werewolves and other scary things that were a credit to monsters movies back in the 80s.

Parody - Mocking something in an original way e.g. Alien Ant Farm's "Movies" where they mock 3D and several films that came out during the 80's and 90's like Ghostbusters or Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, the Karate Kid and Edward Scissorhands.

Pastiche - A work of art that imitates the style of another artist or period. E.g. Weird Al Yankovic's "White and Nerdy" imitating Chamillionairie's "Ridin'".

Bricolage - Mixing up and using different genres and styles. e.g. "Walk This Way" which was originally an Aerosmith song but Aerosmith decided to do a compilation with Run DMC to create a mixture of Rap and Heavy Metal which was unheard of at the time but truly revolutionised the genre bringing two completely different audiences together.

Homage - Imitation from a respectful standpoint. E.g. Michael Jackson's "Black or White" imitating Back to the Future and other films.