This document provides a list of possible postmodern artists and franchises like Eminem, Lady Gaga, and Star Wars that exhibit postmodern characteristics. It also includes terms associated with postmodernism such as simulacra, hyperreality, and deconstruction. Finally, influential postmodern theorists are mentioned like Derrida, Barthes, Lyotard, and Baudrillard.

1. Postmodernism
Choosing your
Case Study

3. Possible Pomo Franchises or Artists
• Eminem
• Twilight
• Lady Gaga
• Bruno Mars
• Miley Cyrus
• Star Wars
• Hunger Games
• Family Guy
• The films of Tarantino
• Iron Man
• Anger Management &
Two and ½ Men
(Charlie Sheen)
• X-Men

4. Postmodern Terms
• Alterity
• Aporia
• Bricolage
• Cahtarsis
• Commodification
• Constructivism
• Cyperberpunk
• Cybernetics
• Cyberspace
• Dadaism
• Dystopia
• Deconstruction
• Flattening of Affect
• Hyerreality
• Kitsch
• Panopticon
• Pastiche
• Parody
• Punctuated equilibrium
• Simulacra
• Simulation
• Semiotics
• Steampunk
• Virtual reality
Theorists
• Buadrilliard
• Jameson
• Lyotard
 Jacques Derrida
 Barthes
 Levi Strauss (bricolage)