...Post-modernism & Its Critiques...
Post-modernism is a term which literally means “after the modern”. It rejects the modernist ideals of rationality, virility, artistic genius, and individualism, in favor of being anti-capitalist, contemptuous of traditional morality, and committed to radical egalitarianism.
It explores the media saturated, transnational culture of consumption where globalised media corporations provide a universal package of information and entertainment. It is also important as a description of generic variation in media texts and as a definition of a cultural attitude where it is seen as an eclectic movement with an ambivalent ending. For example, Quentin Tarrantino’s film series of Kill Bill can be described as a postmodern film as it mixes cultural elements from the American west, traditional Japan and the simulated world of Japanese manga and anime.
Fredric Jameson who is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist argues that parody which requires a comparison of societal norms was replaced by pastiche .i.e. a collage and other forms of juxtaposition without a normative ending. This can relate to the opinions of other theorists such as Terry Eagleton, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard where they all come to the conclusion that as a result of having a bricolage of elements within a media text, the image of a harmonious form and function has been taken away which would have been there if not for the postmodernist view.
Red Herrings...
* Modernism
* Philip Johnson
* Terry Riley
* Ideal perfection
* Traditional form
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