Thursday 6 April 2017

Why might postmodernism be classed as controversial?

Postmodern Music

Postmodernism Essay

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Monday 27 March 2017

Postmodern Media - Theory

Mr Ford Media: Postmodern Media - Theory: Apply the following theorists to the texts you have studied: Baudrillard Barthes Jameson Lyotard Cohen Friedberg Kramer (music) ...

Tuesday 14 March 2017

Postmodern Theorists (2)



Postmodern Theorists


Postmodernism and Audience Theory -

Two commentators have developed some interesting ideas about postmodernism and audiences.

Alain J.-J. Cohen


Identified a new phenomenon in the history of film, the ‘hyper-spectator’. ‘Such spectator, who may have a deep knowledge of cinema, can reconfigure both the films themselves and filmic fragments into new and novel forms of both cinema and spectatorship, making use of the vastly expanded access to films arrived at through modern communications equipment and media. The hyper-spectator is, at least potentially, the material (which here means virtual) creator of his or her hyper-cinematic experience’ (157)

‘VCRs and laserdisc-players or newer DVDs have produced, and are still producing, a Gutenberg-type of revolution in relation to the moving image.’



Anne Friedberg


We now have much control of how we watch a film (through video/dvd), and we increasingly watch film in personal spaces (the home) rather than exclusively in public places Films have helped contribute to the postmodern quality of life by manipulating and playing around with our conventional understanding of time and space.

Anne Friedberg: ‘The cinema spectator and the armchair equivalent – the home-video viewer, who commands fast forward, fast reverse, and many speeds of slow motion, who can easily switch between channels and tape; who is always to repeat, replay, and return – is a spectator lost in but also in control of time. The cultural apparatuses of television and the cinema have gradually become causes for what is now…described as the postmodern condition.’


 Baudrillard


Used to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures. Hyper-reality is a means to characterize the way consciousness defines what is actually "real" in a world where a multitude of media can radically shape and filter an original event or experience. Some famous theorists of hyper-reality include Jean Baudrillard. Baudrillard suggests that the world we live in has been replaced by a copy world, where we seek simulated stimuli and nothing more.

Postmodern Theorists