Easter Homework

1. It's PoMo! (pause) ...Post modern. (pause) ...Weird for the sake of weird.
— Moe Szyslak, The Simpsons
Independent Research Task
Now that you have a good understanding of what is a post modern text and have been shown a
number of examples it is your turn to choose a film text. Your homework task for Easter is to pick
and research a post modern film text produced the past five years. IT is due to be handed in 13th
April. At this level you are expected to be doing about 5 hours per week (outside of class) for each
subject and this is what I expect you to do for this project.
You will need to:
 Watch your chosen text
 Find out about the ‘how and why’ of your text (Production details)
 Explore the critical reception of the text.
 You will also need to apply all the theories and ideas we have looked at so far to the text.
You can highlight how it fits with these ideas and how it does not.
 You will need to include some detailed textual analysis of your text – specific scenes need to
be analysed, possibly with YouTube clip or screen grabs.
 Finally make a judgement about how post modern the text is and explain why
Possible Texts
Bruno
Borat
Death Proof
Stranger than Fiction
Synecdoche: New York
Tropic Thunder
Kick Ass
Inglorious Bastards
Avatar
Exit through the Gift Shop
Source Code
The Adjustment Bureau
Paranormal Activity
Scream 4
500 Days of Summer
Cloverfield
District 9
I’m still here
Shutter Island
Zombieland
End of Watch
The Big Short
Others? – see me if you have
an idea