Postmodernism: Jean Baudrillard Flashcards
(16 cards)
Irony
When opposite things happen to what you think should happen
Parody/homage
When a producer/director includes a copy of a product they like out of respect
Bricolage
Sampling and using older media products in your own
Intertextual references
Producer/director makes subtle/direct references to another media product
Fragmented narrative
When the linear story is broken into chunks and moved around
Self reflexivity
Characters are aware that they are in a media product
Might break the fourth wall
Common theme
What if, the future, technology, human existence
Loss of reality
More artifice, less realism, lacking the amount of realism that a product has
Can be surreal
Lost of reality (theory)
Reality vs artificial
What we used to have in the media and all around us was reality
Used to see real people/locations
Now we are in a world of artificial reality
Heightened reality
More intense
Simulacra
See it as the same but its not really
Become hard to tell apart from reality (hyperreality)
Tries to make out that products are real
Audiences prefer simulacra to real life
Can’t tell the difference or prefer
Mediation
Moment a producer places a camera and presses record, a text is being mediated
Take a particular angle on a story which will represent events in a certain biased manner
Nostalgia
We get nostalgia and latch onto aspects of the past to try and make sense of things
High culture
Elevates people intellectually
Low culture
“dumbing down” keeping the masses passive on a diet of nonsense and getting them to worry about trivial things
Postmodernists view
No longer distinction between these two kinds of texts
Nothing is really original so most texts are hybrids/mixes of lots of elements
