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Schematic
Differences between
Modernism
and Postmodernism
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Modernism
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Postmodernism
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Romanticism/symbolism
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Paraphysics/Dadaism
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Purpose:
Music
video – To advertise a song.
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Play:
Interactive
– To engage with the audience.
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Design:
A
Scripted T.V drama – My Family.
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Chance:
An
unscripted improvised drama - Outnumbered (kids).
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Hierarchy:
The
Hierarchy of a traditional war film.
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Anarchy:
Inglorious
Basterds – Hitler dies in the wrong day
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Art
object, finished word:
Mona
Lisa (finished artwork).
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Process,
performance:
When
someone films the growth of a tree.
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Distance:
At
a Kanye West gig – not involved in the performance, merely watching.
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Participation:
The
D.O.T and Ghostpoet’s interactive video, where the live audience choose
each scene.
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Creation,
totalization:
A
Rom-com film, strictly within a genre.
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Deconstruction:
Kill
– Bill, PoMo film.
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Presence:
The
presence of a story running coincidentally with comedy, to tell a story and
make the audience laugh.
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Absence:
A
load of random events/acts for a comedy show, no story running through it.
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Centering:
Every
genre has a centre (stereotype) traditional war films.
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Dispersal:
Spreads
out genres etc.… Inglorious Basterds is a combination of various ideas.
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Genre,
boundary:
A
traditional war film with traditional conventions.
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Text,
intertextual:
Tarantino’s
Inglorious Basterds untraditional, intertextual references – Mexican
standoff & Cinderella.
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Selection:
A selection of a specific genre:
Action, Drama, Rom-Com/
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Combination:
A
combination of different genres and aspects of films – Tarantino’s Kill
Bill. Or films like Scary Movie.
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Depth:
A
traditional film will be made with a moral and to convey a story.
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Surface:
A
postmodern film such as Jackass that has no depth and is just made to be
funny.
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Interpretation:
The
morals in a traditional film are open for interpretation.
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Against
interpretation:
Sometimes
in postmodern films something is there to be seen as what it is and not
open for interpretation.
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Reading:
A
traditional piece of classical guitar music, is read as created by that
artist.
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Misreading:
For
example a Kanye West sample could be mis-read as something he has created,
when in reality he has ripped it off from someone.
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Narrative:
There’s
a conventional story.
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Anti-narrative:
An
unconventional order of clips.
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Grande
histoire:
Narrative
- a fiction that locks readers into interpreting text in a single,
chronological manner that does not reflect our experiences.
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Petite
histoire:
Anti
Narrative -Postmodern texts may not adhere to traditional notions of
narrative.
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Genital,
phallic:
A
Freudian theory of psychosexual development.
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Polymorphous:
Lots
of different characteristics of certain genres/aspects within a film.
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Paranoia:
Paranoid
thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself.
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Schizophrenia:
A
breakdown in conventional thinking/emotional responses.
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Origin,
cause:
The
point, at which something begins, arises or is devised. Modernism topics
always have an origin.
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Difference-difference:
A
point or way in which people or things are different – different from the
accepted truth.
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Determinacy:
Of
the narrative voice.
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Indeterminacy:
Of
the narrative voice.
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