education

1. Does this ring any bells….
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ImZTwYwCug

2. Read through the hand out
What do you understand of the term
postmodernism?

3. POST MODERNISM
AFTER THE MODERN ERA

4. POSTMODERNISM
Is the fashionable term used to describe
CONTEMPORARY culture, or the very recent
CULTURE which we live amongst. We are
inhabiting a POSTMODERN WORLD.
The term is a lose one , hard to define because
of vagueness about the MODERN era, there is
no definite start or point of change when society
suddenly became postmodern
The term gradually ‘crept in during the 1980s!
Articles and books on postmodernism started to be
published from the early 1980s.

5. Post-modernism is a set of theories
which suggests that society is undergoing
a radical series of changes where
modernism is either: coming to an end or,
being rejected by people or, changing into
a new order.
Postmodernism it is general the era that
follows Modernism

6. Modernism Postmodernism
purpose play
design chance
Hierarchy
order
Anarchy
Confusion
finished work process, performance
distance participation
creation deconstruction
presence absence
depth surface

7. Modernism Postmodernism
truth irony
determinacy indeterminacy
Reality Imaginary
interpretation against interpretation
reading misreading
narrative Anti-narrative
elitism Anti-authoritarianism

8. ITS NOT
JUST
ABOUT
MEDIA

9. It started with postmodern
architecture
Architects and their grew bored
with the restrictive rules of
modernism which dictated that
form follow function and allowed
for no decoration.
Philip Johnston’s tower
has a classical greek
pediment shape on the
top taken from furniture
design
They started to
make reference to
older styles of
architecture and
develop playful
forms

10. There is postmodern food . .
A blending of
cultures
A HYBRID
FORM!!!

11. Postmodern fashion Fashion can also be
inspired by other cultures
and by the past

12. Key characteristics
Postmodern style is often characterized by
eclecticism,
digression,
collage,
pastiche,
and irony.
Postmodern theorists see postmodern art as a
conflation or reversal of well-established
modernist systems, such as the roles of
artist versus audience,
seriousness versus play,
or high culture versus kitsch

13. High Art Low Art/ Popular Culture
Fine art Advertising
Opera Pop music
Ballet Genre Films
Classical Music Television
Classical Literature Pulp fiction or Trashy Novels
Art Cinema Pornography
The breakdown of distinction
between high culture and popular
culture
Against Elitism
Treating ‘low art’ or ‘popular culture’ as if they where high art
places

14. Postmodernism can be broken
down into different concepts
1. In groups, you are going to explore and research these different
ideas.
2. You are going to look at examples outlined by the teacher
3. You will find your own examples from contemporary media texts
4. You will explain the concept to the class and present your
examples

15. Group 1 to explore Intertextuality and
bricolage
 Using the text book, read through the explanation of these
two postmodern concepts.
 You are going to explain how they conforms to this using this
example and one other of your own choice.
 Search on youtube ‘Weezer Buddy Holly’

16. Group 2 – Baudrillard and Lyotard
 Using the text book, read through the explanation of how Baudrillard
conforms to a postmodernist theory.
 You are going to explain how simulacrum conforms to this using this
example and one other of your own choice.
 Search on youtube ‘Black Mirror trailer’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jROLrhQkK78

20.  Is technology enabling us, the audience to create
postmodern interpretations of media texts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEDMpsJ5xuU

21. Is Nikki Minaj postmodern?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDZX4ooRsWs