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Postmodernism New Hollywood Film Foundation Degree Research the term Postmodernism Make notes or brainstorming drawing What is Postmodernism? • Difficult to define • Not one theory • Variations of when the term was first used... 1960s/1990s • Variety of meaning: a period/attitude/mode of thought • Can be applied to various disciplines: literature, painting, architecture, media, etc • Reflection in the arts on society and rapid advances in technology, capitalism • Pluralism, multiple theories and various meanings 3 Approaches to understand Postmodernism 1. Historical 2. Stylistic 3. Theoretical It is a reaction to Modernism What is Modernism? Modernism is a philosophical movement appeared as a response to the new economic, social, and political environment of the industrialisation process from Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Modernism expressions • art • film • architecture • literature • religious faith • philosophy • social organization • sciences Arquitecture The simplification of form and elimination of ornament Seagram Building, NY, designed by Mies van der Rohe Painting Experimenting with representation of people Stravinsky, Stravinsky, The Song The Song of theofNightingale, the Nightingale, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8tUtimeBJAs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8tUtimeBJAs Music Dissonance, distorted music effects, rejection of rules of harmony and composition Society Bonding of the nuclear family Modernism believed that the lives of people would improve thanks to science and a world based on logic It was a time of optimism that carried over from the Victoria Era and Edwardian and right up to 1914 until... Turning point • The terrible carnage of the the First World War sowed seeds of doubt as to whether the world was becoming a better place. • Science was turned to creating weapons to kill on an industrial scale; this was a trademark of the war - a wave of pessimism swept across Europe. The birth of postmodernism This idea of a loss in the goodness of people and suspicion of science and a world of logic and order was compounded by two main events of the Second World War Holocaust Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs The birth of postmodernism • These events brought about the movement and the theories which are loosely titled postmodernism and • By 1968, these ideas reached fruition Campbell’s soups, Andy Warhold (1968) American Pop Art • Postmodern texts embody skepticism towards the ideas and ideal of the modern era, especially the ideas of progress, objectivity, reason, certainty, personal identity and grand narrative. • Postmodernism takes pleasure in playing with convention, pointing out nature of how everything is a construction https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lKomOqYU4Mw That's the theory, but what is postmodernism in practice ? Make a collage or mood board of postmodernism expressed in in art, architecture, society, painting, philosophy, social organisation. Make a presentation to the class. Next class... Postmodern Cinema