1. Topic :- Post modernism and Popular culture
Name :- Rasil jambucha
Roll no:- 24
Sem :- 2/M.A.
Paper :- The cultural studies
Submitted to :- smt.s.b.Gardi
maharaja krishanakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar university

2. what is postmodernism?

3.  late 20th
century movement, in art, architecture,
sociology, communication, fashion, philosophy, history,
fiction, culture.

4. 
characterized by the self-conscious use of earlier style
 mixing of different artistic style and media, and general
distribute of theories
 reject the opposition between ‘high’ and ‘low’
 the claim of any universal or totalizing theory
 celebrates plurality, heterogeneity
 collapses the distinction between genre and convention
 thriller format becomes part of the ‘serious’ novel
 comic element and absurdity mark
 myth, fairy tales, legends and contemporary realities
merge
 it becomes impossible to distinguish between reality and
illusion (both character-reader)

5.  the distinction between “real” history and “mere” fiction
called into question
 postmodernism celebrates the very act of dismembering
tradition
 postmodernism borrows from modernism
 postmodernism characterized by,
“ incredulity toward metannaratives”
- lyotard
 postmodernism is best compared to the emergence of
computer technology
 it reflects both the energy and diversity of contemporary
life as well as its frequent lack of coherence

7. postmodernism writers
 Jorge Luis Borges
 john barth
 James Joyce
 Faulkner's
 Frederic Jameson
T.s Eliot
 Wallace

8. Jean-Francois lyotard and the postmodern condition
 he characerizes the postmodern as a disbelief in
and resistance to metanarrative
 the disbelief towards metanarrative is the
disillusionment with totalizing explanation of
poetry
 it includes narrative of science, philosophy, and
religion
 postmodernism acknowledges that all knowledge is
fragmentary, partial, and incomplete

9. jean Baudrillard and the Hyperreal
 his central argument is reproduction and endless
repetition of image, the distinction between the real
and the illusory, original and copy broken down
 suggest- sign merely refers to other signs
 it refer to other similar sign rather than ‘truth’
 it is a generation of copies of the real without
origin or reality, or what is called the “Hyperreal”

10. post modern art
 visual art, sculpture, plastic art, design may be seen
 incompleteble style are favorite device
Use of the vernacular and slang in art
 ex ,

11. popular culture
 before 1960s popular culture was not studied by
academics
 film studied, women’s studies, pulp fiction, comic
books, television, popular music, race, gender,
class, reshaped and reshaped in popular cultural
analyses
 William Gibson, Bruse sterling, Melissa Scott, pat
cadigan write on science fiction, fantasy, contemporary
realism

14. ex,
Frankenstein
Sometimes popular culture
repackage a literary work, that is
impossible to read the original
text , without reference to the
many layers of popular culture
that have developed around it