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The movie 2 Guns begins with a low-angled shot of a fast-moving train approaching the camera, setting an intense tone. It then cuts to a long shot of the two main characters in a stereotypical crime film vehicle with cool music playing, though they speak little. Within the opening scenes, the audience sees police officers, a cafe, and a bank, signaling there will be money and action involved. The title appears after a gunshot with a low-angled long shot of the characters, emphasizing the film contains action and criminal acts.
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This document discusses the history and key features of postmodern film. It provides examples of early postmodern films from the 1980s like Blade Runner that combined different time periods and genres. Films from the 1990s like Pulp Fiction used nonlinear narrative structures. More recent examples include horror films that parody the genre, like Scary Movie, as well as sci-fi films that experiment with time like Inception. Postmodern films often use pastiche, flatten emotion, create hyperreality, bend time, portray altered mental states, and question what it means to be human.
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Postmodernism is a late 20th century style that departs from modernism, characterized by intertextuality, pastiche, kitsch, mixing of art forms and genres, questioning of meaning, self-referentiality, contradictions, and blurred boundaries. As a constantly changing style, postmodernism is always becoming outdated even as it reinvents itself.
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Wuthering Heights can be interpreted and analyzed through different literary theories and genres:
1. It contains elements of a Gothic novel such as a brooding atmosphere, the supernatural, and characters driven by passion and ambition. However, it can also be read as a love story that focuses on the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff.
2. Postmodern and feminist readings of the novel highlight its multiple perspectives, unreliable narrators, examination of gender roles and power dynamics, and questioning of social constructs.
3. Psychoanalytic and Marxist criticisms analyze the novel's exploration of psychological states, social contexts, and contradictions between characters and the systems they inhabit.
Postmodernism and film
Postmodernist films are characterized by self-conscious use of styles and conventions, mixing of styles and media, and distrust of theories. They challenge mainstream narratives and aim to destroy audience suspension of disbelief. Key conventions include pastiche, flattened emotion, hyperreality, time bending, and altered states. Pulp Fiction and Run Lola Run are examples that blend genres, have nonlinear narratives, and reference other works. However, some philosophers criticize postmodernism as meaningless and unable to add analytical knowledge.
Postmodernism
The document provides an overview of postmodern media theories and concepts. It discusses key postmodern thinkers like Baudrillard and Lyotard who rejected the idea of objective truth and reality. Postmodern media is described as challenging conventions by making the audience aware of texts as constructions. Examples of postmodern films, TV shows, and games are given that play with narrative structures and hyperreality. The Matrix is highlighted as a potentially postmodern film for aspects like breaking conventions with "bullet time" sequences and drawing attention to the film's construction.
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This document provides an overview of key concepts in postmodernism. It contrasts modern and postmodern eras, noting that postmodernism involves fragmentation, uncertainty, and constant choice rather than clear structure and identity. Some key features of postmodernism discussed include relativism, consumerism, transforming identity, disillusionment with progress, and the impacts of globalization and technology. Examples like reality TV, Disneyland, and blending religious practices are used to illustrate postmodern concepts.
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