Modernism emerged between the 1890s-1960s as an artistic and social movement that rejected realism in favor of experimental styles. Postmodernism began in the 1970s as a rejection of the distinctions and boundaries that defined modernism, embracing styles like parody, pastiche, and bricolage that blended genres and mixed fiction with reality. Key aspects of postmodernism include intertextuality, questioning binary divides, and emphasizing style over content through techniques like sampling to create a hyperreal version of mediated reality.

1. POSTMODERNISM

2. MODERNISM- Art / social-political movement that aimed to reinvent culture that
had become outdated.
- Roughly occurred between 1890s - 1960s.
- A rejection against realism.
- Divisions of modernism include avant-garde and surrealism.
- Films / novels / art were self-reflexive of society.

3. MODERNIST ART CHALLENGED THE
REALISM AND ILLUSION OF THE
ROMANTIC ERA.
John Constable Pablo Picasso
(Romanticism) (Modernism)

4. Modernism is self-reflexive, it draws attention to itself and the
materials is uses. - E.g. Jackson Pollock

5. POSTMODERNISM
- 1970s onwards
- The breakdown of barriers between genres and style
- The breakdown of distinction between binary divides
(E.g. human and machine)
- Mixing up time, space and narrative
- Emphasis of style over content
- Blurring of fiction and reality / representation and the real
- Becoming more use to a mediated version of reality, than reality
itself (hyperreality).

6. KEY TERMS
Intertextuality - one media text referring to another
Parody - mocking something in an original way
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7. PARODY
- The Sim pso ns parodies both high and low culture to a wide range
of audiences.
- Part of the idea of postmodernism is that there is no divide between- Part of the idea of postmodernism is that there is no divide between
high art and mass culture.high art and mass culture.

8. Pastiche - An artistic work in a style that imitates that of another
work, artist, or period. This is a self-conscious imitation.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Marilyn Monroe
Material Girl
Madonna
Ashanti Foolish music
videoGoodfellas

9. Bricolage - mixing up and using different genres and styles
Shaun of the
Dead:
Zombie mixed
with and
romantic
comedy.
Blade Runner: Sci-Fi and film noir
DJ Shadow’s Entroducing:
The first album to be completely
made up of sampled music.

10. Homage - imitation from a respectful standpoint
Psycho - the 1960 original Psycho - the 1998 remake