Post modernism isn't an age but a style. Post modernism has no real effect on the world. This is mostly for entertainment, the best way to describe post modernism is mucking around with media. However there isn't really one way to describe or define post modernism. It is one of the most complicated things to understand in media.
In this lecture i learnt quite a bit about the basics of post modernism. Post modernism can be used with any forms of media. Allot of post modernism can be a bit crude or in bad taste, for example Boro Pat. Boro Pat is a dub over of Postman Pat episodes with allot of profanity and rude humour. This is taking a nostalgic TV show and made it into an adult comedy. Like most post modernism that is in bad taste, it doesn't shock the younger generation however if this was shown to an older generation back when they were younger they would be highly offended.
Boro Pat (ADULT HUMOR!) http://meview.metro.co.uk/video.aspx?id=16533
We looked at a clip of team America in class which covered most of the stuff i mentioned above. Team America is an old style technique (retro) of filming using puppets; you can see the strings, half the time the puppets aren’t touching the floor, out of sync with actors talking and is deliberately like this to be nostalgic (a bit like thunderbirds). However the film is also deliberately "bad" as in it is in bad taste with crude humour, violence and profanity (taboo). The principles of this form of post modernism retrospective styling came from Frederick Jameson "nostalgia for the future". This is the clash of registers as you wouldn’t expect puppets which is associated more with children, to be killing, fighting, swearing etc. which is more associated with adults. The clash of registers came from Linda Hutcheon - "Double encoding" - travesty + homage.
However the effect on media such as Team America doesn't affect me or most people my age as it is generally in our culture.
Post modernism is usually just a temporarily popular thing. For example something you might see on YouTube or a song. What I mean is something that isn't really aimed to stay around but more just for the sake of doing it or for entertainment purposes, an example of this is the song by Adam Kay and Suman Biswas - The London underground; a parody song of Going Underground by The Jam. The video below is an example of this, it is a Sparta remix. This like many others you can find on YouTube was really popular around the time 300 were out (film). It's a remix of a famous quote in the film "madness, this is Sparta!" Along with this remix are hundreds of videos made by people featuring little gimmicks of edited videos of animated GIFS with the face of the main character of the film.
Sparta (300) Remix - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ttcSaTheI
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| Sin City |
Mixing of genres can also be suggested as post modernism (mixing the old with the new). An example of this could be the film Sin City. The way i figure that is, it takes on an old style of filming approach, in black n white and the style of acting. Mixed with more modern special effects and colour appearing every now and then to make things stick out (not necessarily the colour it’s meant to be).
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| Che Guevara |
Another example of post modernism is, back in the communist years everyone knew who Che Guevara was. Then a bit later on the younger generation would wear his face on a T-Shirt as a symbol of teenage rebellion. Nowadays Che Guevara's face on a t-shirt is fashionable with no meaning, in fact most people now wouldn't know who he was and parents wouldn't really care if his face was on their child’s shirt.
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