Postmodernism Within The Midnight Beast

First Postmodern Question Plan.

"Postmodern media manipulate time and space". To what extent does this definition apply to texts you have studied?"


Task One - My opinion in 26 words.
Postmodernism media manipulates everything. Time and space within 'Inglorious Basterds' and 'Inception' manipulates time and space within film; postmodernism media has the potential to manipulate everything.

Lesson Six Homework - Bricolage Images.

 

Lesson Six Homework - Uncool Playlist

Fuck - Bring Me The Horizon (Heavy Metal)
What Did You Expect? - Neck Deep (Alternative)
Circle The Drain - Katy Perry (Pop)
Last Friday Night - Katy Perry (Pop)
Home/Sick - Heart In Hand (Rock)
Destabalise - Enter Shikari (Rock)
Jumping Ship - Counterparts (Rock)
Far Q - Lower Than Atlantis (Alternative)
Warrior - Blitz Kids (Alternative)
Blessed With A Curse - Bring Me The Horizon (Heavy Metal)
Deadliest Catch - Lower Than Atlantis (Alternative)
Call Me Hopeless, But Not Romantic - Mayday Parade (Alternative)

The postmodern meaning to my uncool playlist

There is no "cool" anymore, it is impossible to be "cool", people are too opinionative for there to be a right and a wrong in what is "cool". My playlist to someone else may seem unusual or different and not of their taste, but it is not "uncool". The phrase "cool" is unusable anymore as it has lost all of its meaning due to it being over analysed and used. Some may associate myself to have an unusual playlist as there are Heavy Metal Songs as well as Pop Songs.
Due to music being so easy to reach with online streaming, YouTube and iTunes, it is easy to have no knowledge of any music genres as being separate. It is entirely possible for everyone to be interested in all music genres and not generalising them into categories and sub-categories. Would it not have been for the internet enabling me to reach out to find more genres, then I would still just be a fan of Pop music, and only like specific artists and it would be very difficult for my knowledge and understanding of music to expand.

Lesson Four, Five and Six - Inception

Post Modern elements of inception

·         Intertextual references

-          Refers to itself, constant links from other parts in the film.

-          Sai Tao at the other side of the table to Comp at the beginning of the film and end.

-          Several people waking up in the Sea at different times.

-          The room code, Females phone number and Safe code all being the same number.

-          Paradox’s (two conflicting ideas which cannot co-exist) The stairs, and not knowing if they are asleep or awake.

·         Textual reference, the old man at the end linking to a Hospital in another film.

·         There are 6 Grand Narratives within the film and all of them interconnect and show different genres, which is what makes it postmodern.

·         He questions what time is. Time is not linear. Time has just happened. Time is an event. A fallacy. Everything has already happened.

·         Simulacrum.

·         The original cut shows that the spinning top falls over whereas in the final cut it is left as a cliff hanger.

·         The film has no depth.

Lesson Three - Homework

I shall embed the videos in ASAP

Three – The Pony

Cadburys – The Eyebrows

O2 – Be More Dog

Postmodernism in adverts involves not showing the product, creating an image of something completely different to what you would expect for the product of the advertisement. It involves being weird for the sake of being weird, creating something which will make people remember it. Therefore when they talk about it with their peers and therefore they receive free advertising through word of mouth.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

“Lyotard rejected what he called the “grand narratives” or universal “meta-narratives.”

Principally, the grand narratives refer to the great theories of history, science, religion, politics. For example, Lyotard rejects the ideas that everything is knowable by science or that as history moves forward in time, humanity makes progress. He would reject universal political ‘solutions’ such as communism or capitalism. He also rejects the idea of absolute freedom.

In studying media texts it is possible also to apply this thinking to a rejection of the Western moralistic narratives of Hollywood film where good triumphs over evil, or where violence and exploitation are suppressed for the sake of public decency.

Lyotard favours ‘micronarratives’ that can go in any direction, that reflect diversity, that are unpredictable.”