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Post Modernism in Media

       BAUDRILLARD
        JAMESON
         LYOTARD
OBJECTIVES
• To introduce aspects of postmodern
  style/aesthetic

• To introduce aspects of postmodern form
  (narrative, genre)
KEY TERMS
SIMULACRA,
PARODY & PASTICHE,
HYPERREALITY,
BRICOLAGE,
INTERTEXTUALITY,
HYBRIDITY,
DISLOCATION FROM TIME & SPACE
What is Post Modern Media?
•   Postmodern media rejects the idea that any media product or text is of
     any greater value than another. All judgements of value are merely
    taste.

•   Anything can be art, anything can deserve to reach an audience, and
     culture ‘eats itself’as there is no longer anything new to produce or
     distribute.

•   The distinction between media and reality has collapsed, and we now
    live in a ‘reality’ defined by images and representations – a state of
    simulacrum. Images refer to each other and represent each other as
    reality rather than some ‘pure’ reality that exists before the image
    represents it – this is the state of hyper-reality.

•   All ideas of ‘the truth’ are just competing claims – or discourses and
    what we believe to be the truth at any point is merely the ‘winning’
    discourse.
Postmodern Media as an
       STYLE aesthetic



• Hybridity - (the mixing and sampling of different kinds
  and levels - of hip hop music, of material in television
  ads, films, etc.) Postmodern texts 'raid the image bank'
  of popular culture which is so richly available through
  video and computer technologies, recyclesome old
  movies and shows on television, the Internet etc. Music,
  film and TV provide excellent examples of these
  processes.
Bricolage
• This is used to refer to the process of
  adaptation or improvisation where aspects of
  one style are given quite different meanings
  when compared and collidewith stylistic
  features from another or a combination of
  multiple. Look at the inside of the recent
  Doctor's Tardis for examples of Brocolage –
  the old typewriter with the modern viewer etc.
Self Reflexivity
Is the text aware that it is itself a constructed
  simulation or reproduction. In using
  intertextual references and creating hyper-
  reality does it play with the idea of this by
  making reference to itself as a simulation
  of reality?
Self Reflexivity
Is the text aware that it is itself a constructed
  simulation or reproduction. In using
  intertextual references and creating hyper-
  reality does it play with the idea of this by
  making reference to itself as a simulation
  of reality?
Parody & Pastiche
Post Modern texts use Intertextuality to
 reference existing texts, sometimes as an
 HOMAGE – paying tribute to its influence
 and sometimes as PARODY & PASTICHE
 invites the postmodern audience to make
 sense and meaning of the reference by its
 understanding and experience of
 consuming a bank of previous media,
 often for the purpose of comedy & humour.
HYPERREALITY



• Reality is no longer pure or truth – our culture is
  saturated by media simulations of reality that we can no
  longer seperate them. The blurring of real and
  ‘simulated’, especially in film and reality TV or
  celebrity magazines, Simulation or hyperreality can refer
  to not only the increasing use of CGI in films like Avatar,
  but also the narrative enigmas of The Matrix, Blade
  Runner or Inception.
SIMULACRA

• This has implications for realist forms of media, since our sense of
  reality is now said to be utterly dominated by popular media images;
  cultural forms can no longer 'hold up the mirror to reality', since
  reality itself is saturated by advertising, film, video games, and
  television images.
• Moreover the capacity of digital imaging makes 'truth claims' or the
  reliability of images tricky – think about the use of Photoshop in
  magazine and advertising images. Advertising no longer tries
  seriously to convince us of its products' real quality but, just shows
  us a fake about the product.
The Erosion of History
In a society where a constant flow of images via mass media and mass communication becomes
     part of everyday life, we are treated to an endless barrage of signs which we accept, not as
     being real, but, as Baudrillard would argue, as supplanting the real. The real loses its meaning,
     and what we believe and deal with are simulacra. Baudrillard would, as Jameson did, relate
     this idea to history. Without any grounding in the real, and having no way to prove the real,
     our knowledge of the past is confined to whatever symbols we associate with it when we
     attempt to portray it. For example, "The 80's," as an historical entity, is not anything real, but
     merely the amalgamation of the symbols that we have accumulated for it, whether they be
     images of stonewashed designer jeans, new wave pop, breakdancing, Ronald Reagan, Just Say
     No, glasnost, greed, or the Challenger. There is no history, only a distorted nostalgia, distorted
     because it relies only on the symbols, icons, and indexes that we have access to at any given
     moment.
Blurring of boundaries
• The boundaries between form and structure of
  settings in time and periods in history have been
  blurred so that they are set in a dislocated
  narrative space – no time and no place. Films
  such as Inglorious Basterds demonstrate the
  'erosion of history'. In addition to this the
  boundaries of genre have been blurred to produce
  Hybridity.
Disjointed Narrative Structures
• These are said to mimic the uncertainties and relativism
  of postmodernity in films like Pulp Fiction as
  contemporary narratives often won’t guarantee
  identifications with characters, or the 'happy ending' or
  meta narratives which have traditionally been achieved
  at the end of films. They often manage only a play with
  multiple, or heavily ironic, perhaps 'unfinished' or even
  parodic endings, Similar to Memento and Fight Club .
  Narratives can also be disjointed in time and space –
  see modern / retro films like Blade Runner
Summary
• We usually think of the media as being 'in
  between' us and reality, hence the word 'media'
  and the idea of 'mediation'

• Postmodernists claim that in a media-saturated
  world, where we are constantly immersed in media
  - on the move, at work, at home - the distinction
  between reality and the media representation of it
  becomes blurred or even entirely invisible to us. In
  other words, we no longer have any sense of the
  difference between real things and images of
  them, or real experiences and simulations of them.
  Media reality is the new reality.
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This becomes more complex but accessible when
  we consider the building of virtual worlds in games
  for example Liberty City in GTA, but also online
  our identity and relationships through memes &
  the projection of our selves into avatars, facebook,
  and Second Life
WHY IS THIS POSTMODERN?
Chicken Fight
FIGHT CLUB
Weds 2nd Feb 2 – 5pm
Fight workshop
Design a sequence that demonstrates some
  or more of the postmodern stylistic
  approaches we have discussed here
Consider particularly how we planning this
  relies on us make sense of fighting as
  'simulacra' & 'hyperreality'
Some starting points
Family Guy chicken fight
Kill Bill
Rocky
Matrix
StreetFighter2
Tekken
Mortal Kombat

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Intro PoMo Media Features

  • 1. Post Modernism in Media BAUDRILLARD JAMESON LYOTARD
  • 2. OBJECTIVES • To introduce aspects of postmodern style/aesthetic • To introduce aspects of postmodern form (narrative, genre)
  • 3. KEY TERMS SIMULACRA, PARODY & PASTICHE, HYPERREALITY, BRICOLAGE, INTERTEXTUALITY, HYBRIDITY, DISLOCATION FROM TIME & SPACE
  • 4. What is Post Modern Media? • Postmodern media rejects the idea that any media product or text is of any greater value than another. All judgements of value are merely taste. • Anything can be art, anything can deserve to reach an audience, and culture ‘eats itself’as there is no longer anything new to produce or distribute. • The distinction between media and reality has collapsed, and we now live in a ‘reality’ defined by images and representations – a state of simulacrum. Images refer to each other and represent each other as reality rather than some ‘pure’ reality that exists before the image represents it – this is the state of hyper-reality. • All ideas of ‘the truth’ are just competing claims – or discourses and what we believe to be the truth at any point is merely the ‘winning’ discourse.
  • 5. Postmodern Media as an STYLE aesthetic • Hybridity - (the mixing and sampling of different kinds and levels - of hip hop music, of material in television ads, films, etc.) Postmodern texts 'raid the image bank' of popular culture which is so richly available through video and computer technologies, recyclesome old movies and shows on television, the Internet etc. Music, film and TV provide excellent examples of these processes.
  • 6. Bricolage • This is used to refer to the process of adaptation or improvisation where aspects of one style are given quite different meanings when compared and collidewith stylistic features from another or a combination of multiple. Look at the inside of the recent Doctor's Tardis for examples of Brocolage – the old typewriter with the modern viewer etc.
  • 7. Self Reflexivity Is the text aware that it is itself a constructed simulation or reproduction. In using intertextual references and creating hyper- reality does it play with the idea of this by making reference to itself as a simulation of reality?
  • 8. Self Reflexivity Is the text aware that it is itself a constructed simulation or reproduction. In using intertextual references and creating hyper- reality does it play with the idea of this by making reference to itself as a simulation of reality?
  • 9. Parody & Pastiche Post Modern texts use Intertextuality to reference existing texts, sometimes as an HOMAGE – paying tribute to its influence and sometimes as PARODY & PASTICHE invites the postmodern audience to make sense and meaning of the reference by its understanding and experience of consuming a bank of previous media, often for the purpose of comedy & humour.
  • 10. HYPERREALITY • Reality is no longer pure or truth – our culture is saturated by media simulations of reality that we can no longer seperate them. The blurring of real and ‘simulated’, especially in film and reality TV or celebrity magazines, Simulation or hyperreality can refer to not only the increasing use of CGI in films like Avatar, but also the narrative enigmas of The Matrix, Blade Runner or Inception.
  • 11. SIMULACRA • This has implications for realist forms of media, since our sense of reality is now said to be utterly dominated by popular media images; cultural forms can no longer 'hold up the mirror to reality', since reality itself is saturated by advertising, film, video games, and television images. • Moreover the capacity of digital imaging makes 'truth claims' or the reliability of images tricky – think about the use of Photoshop in magazine and advertising images. Advertising no longer tries seriously to convince us of its products' real quality but, just shows us a fake about the product.
  • 12. The Erosion of History In a society where a constant flow of images via mass media and mass communication becomes part of everyday life, we are treated to an endless barrage of signs which we accept, not as being real, but, as Baudrillard would argue, as supplanting the real. The real loses its meaning, and what we believe and deal with are simulacra. Baudrillard would, as Jameson did, relate this idea to history. Without any grounding in the real, and having no way to prove the real, our knowledge of the past is confined to whatever symbols we associate with it when we attempt to portray it. For example, "The 80's," as an historical entity, is not anything real, but merely the amalgamation of the symbols that we have accumulated for it, whether they be images of stonewashed designer jeans, new wave pop, breakdancing, Ronald Reagan, Just Say No, glasnost, greed, or the Challenger. There is no history, only a distorted nostalgia, distorted because it relies only on the symbols, icons, and indexes that we have access to at any given moment.
  • 13. Blurring of boundaries • The boundaries between form and structure of settings in time and periods in history have been blurred so that they are set in a dislocated narrative space – no time and no place. Films such as Inglorious Basterds demonstrate the 'erosion of history'. In addition to this the boundaries of genre have been blurred to produce Hybridity.
  • 14. Disjointed Narrative Structures • These are said to mimic the uncertainties and relativism of postmodernity in films like Pulp Fiction as contemporary narratives often won’t guarantee identifications with characters, or the 'happy ending' or meta narratives which have traditionally been achieved at the end of films. They often manage only a play with multiple, or heavily ironic, perhaps 'unfinished' or even parodic endings, Similar to Memento and Fight Club . Narratives can also be disjointed in time and space – see modern / retro films like Blade Runner
  • 15. Summary • We usually think of the media as being 'in between' us and reality, hence the word 'media' and the idea of 'mediation' • Postmodernists claim that in a media-saturated world, where we are constantly immersed in media - on the move, at work, at home - the distinction between reality and the media representation of it becomes blurred or even entirely invisible to us. In other words, we no longer have any sense of the difference between real things and images of them, or real experiences and simulations of them. Media reality is the new reality.
  • 16. You have 0 friends This becomes more complex but accessible when we consider the building of virtual worlds in games for example Liberty City in GTA, but also online our identity and relationships through memes & the projection of our selves into avatars, facebook, and Second Life
  • 17. WHY IS THIS POSTMODERN? Chicken Fight
  • 18. FIGHT CLUB Weds 2nd Feb 2 – 5pm Fight workshop Design a sequence that demonstrates some or more of the postmodern stylistic approaches we have discussed here Consider particularly how we planning this relies on us make sense of fighting as 'simulacra' & 'hyperreality'
  • 19. Some starting points Family Guy chicken fight Kill Bill Rocky Matrix StreetFighter2 Tekken Mortal Kombat