Postmodernism
Features or
postmodern product
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Irony
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Parody
or homage= paying respects to a genre,style,person or product
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Bricolage=
sampling and using older media products in your own.
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Intertextual
reference
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Fragmented
narrative
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Self-reflexivity
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Common
themes : what if, the future, technology, human existence
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Loss
of reality: more artifice, less realism – lacking verisimilitude= the amount of
realism
Postmodernism
& Baudrillard’s theory
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Reality vs artificial
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Thinks
there is a loss of reality
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We
are surrounded by simulacra of media products
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Simulacra become hard to tell apart from reality = hyperreality
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Simulacrum is a copy of something with very little link to
reality
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Audiences
often prefer simulacra to real life
Stranger
things
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Stranger Things
can be described as hyperreal. It is a
representation that is based on other media representations. The density of intertextuality that underpins
Stranger Things results in a representation of small town America in the
1980s that is based on media texts of that era.
