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Modernism vs Postmodernism 1
This document contrasts modernism and postmodernism. It discusses how modernism valued structure, efficiency, science and technology. Key figures like Henry Ford embodied these ideals through mass production techniques. However, modernism taken to an extreme, as seen in WWII under Hitler, led to undesirable outcomes. As a result, postmodernism emerged, rejecting rigid structure and embracing differences.
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Modernism vs Postmodernism 1
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- 2. Modernism • Structure andOrder • Efficiency and Productivity • Science and Technology • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfw0KapQ 3qw • Charlie Chaplin – Modern Times
- 3. Key Figure –Henry Ford • Founder of the Ford car • Factory System • Development of the Production line • Standardisation of production • De- skilling of the work force • "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black".
- 4. These ideas fedinto Media • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsZRpPsZ 9zE • Seven Dwarfs working in the mine – factory production
- 5. But not allsaw this as a good way of life • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P2iUJucb k4
- 6. So Why Didit Changed? • World War Two • The Cold War and M.A.D • Social Housing • Modernism (and it’s ideas taken to their extreme) led the world to a place that people did not like
- 7. World War Two •Hitler – Modernism at its worst • Order – Use of the army for control • Confirmative – anyone ‘different’ was removed • Efficiency and Productivity – Concentration Camps and 6 million Jews (used a production line to kill) • Science used to justify the genocide and don’t forget the scientific experiments • Weapons Technology
- 8. The Cold Warand M.A.D • Science and Technology at its worst
- 9. Social Housing • Howdoes Social Housing reflex the ideas of Modernism? • What are the problems associated with Social Housing?
- 10. Social Housing elsewhere •What is different?
- 11. Activity – MasterChef • Analyse the following clips from Masterchef and Julia Child • One is modern (traditional) and one is postmodern • Consider the following – Average shot length and camera work – Representation and Target audience – Mise en scene and music – Narrative – Ideology etc
- 13. How do theseclips represent the time they were made in? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA2ys8C- lNk • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fusZBQYV NIk • 2-3 paragraphs
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- #3 These were all important in the Modernist approach to the world and how it should work. If you did not ‘fit’ these ideas you were seen as problematic Function over beauty, substance over style, no room for Art or self expression Charlie Chaplet ‘Modern Times’ – factory scene where he ends up in the machine - part of the machine, does not fit in (also disconnected with the ‘world’ tries to tigthen up everything even a woman – so obsessed with structure and order.
- #4 Production line was all about Efficiency and production and the factory (that was massive) produced 150 070 034 Model T cars between 1908 – 1927 (record stood for 45 years) Standardisation – every car was the same!!!!, quick to produce and assemble Workers only had to be able to do one thing – millions of different step in building a car which had been done by only a few people in the past = deskilled (no need for education, training etc) Use of science - machines The Black colour quote is all about standardisation (all the same) and efficiency (black was the quickest colour to dry)
- #5 Snow White and the seven Dwarfs - discuss how we see all of the key ideas in this piece
- #6 Metropolis
- #7 Get the students to guess why these things are extreme Modernism.
- #8 And this is why so many of the post modern thinker were French – they living under Nazi Occupation
- #10 Talk about the London Riots – second images