- Freud - pshyco analysis
- Marx - ruling class
- Darwin - natural selection
- Neitczhe - german philosopher - 'God is Dead'
Postmodernism rejects meta-narratives
Paradox of the idea of no systems, so then it becomes a system itself
Postmodernism has created choice in society, e.g:
- vegetarianism
- gay marriage
- divorce
Postmodernism suggests there is no one truth - distrust of meta-narratives - there are many truths
Media texts are a construct of someones representation, therefore cannot be true.
Post Modern Media - Artistic Movements
Classiscism:
- (Romans onwards)
- religious imagry
- represents religion
Romanticism:
- (1700's)
- presented the world in a positive light
- wasn't a real representation
Impressionism:
- (1800's)
- development
- not attempting to be life like
Post-Impressionism:
- 1890's
- Van Gogh
- letting out emotions through art
- becoming an individual
Cubism:
- early 1900's
- movements changing more rapidly
- Picasso
- not trying to be representative of society
- expression of the individual
Surrealism:
- 1920's
- pushing back boundries
- dreams, emotions, desires
- Salvador Dali
Abstract (modernist)
- breaking down forms
- abstract expressionism
- expressing emotions abstracrivly
Pop-Art:
- how we experience the world
- consumer goods
- define ourselves by what we have
- reflects culture at the time
Post-Modernism:
- takes familier things and makes them unfamilier
- becoming/using popular culture
- personal experience
Modernism - looks forward,progresses
Post-Modernism - nostalgic, says we canot create naything new because we've already done everything - we borrow things from past eras, mix them up and that creates something new
In a post modern society, media is the art form.
Sometimes the actual construction can be the art, for example Tracy Emins - Bed, and buildings.
Post - Modernity
Post-war Europe - world divided into two; communism and capitalism
The Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis - 1962 - John F Kennedy
Russia sent Cuba nuclear missiles that could harm the US.
People thought we were on the edge of WWIII
Idea of Post-Modernism - living on the edge of an apocolypse
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