2. TODAYS DEFINITION
“For Linda Hutcheon, the postmodern is much
more an artistic style, recognisable by its self
reflexivity and irony, especially in its relations to
the practices and objects of the surrounding
culture and the cultural past. Postmodern work
often takes the form of parody, which has a
highly divided and ambivalent relation to its
objects of imitation” - M Fortier

3. PRACTICES
Ways of doing things
 Traditional narratives in film
 Character Types
 Codes and Conventions
 Technical practices
 Props, costumes etc
A self reflective text will challenge these ways of doing things

4. POSTMODERN SELF-AWARENESS
Texts are self-aware – it mentions itself,
questions itself, it says what it is…
The boundary between audience and text
is broken
Postmodern is METATEXTUAL

5. SURROUNDING CULTURE
Acknowledging the social/culture background in which the text is produced
Often making ‘fun’ of that context
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GvVDHruEPQ
Can make serious comment on the issues in society
http://seekcartoon.com/watch/27324-the-simpsons-season-16-episode-10-theressomething-about-marrying.html#.Uwnv9mtFBdg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR4yQFZK9YM
Talks about current issues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L2fsubA2-c

6. CULTURAL PAST
Human history
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVmdCAT7Rc8
Past texts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-eazu7FQEg
Can be critical of itself and its form
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvEXudbFhWU

7. DRAWS ATTENTION TO THE CONSTRUCTED NATURE
OF THE TEXT
Direct Address to camera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF7wckdzHXY
Seeing the means of construction (cameras, obtuse editing, jump cuts,)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_NpFX6OaJg
Characters drawing attention to plot holes
Scream excerpt from 52:31
Referencing the media itself – The Simpsons and Fox Network, Use of ‘CNN’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/04/the-simpsons-skewers-cable-newsprint-media-video_n_4211143.html

8. YOUR TASK
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Create a powerpoint using clips or images the internet
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Find another example for each point in the slide show that is in
orange.
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Then next to or underneath it, explain how it is self-reflective or
self-aware in this way…