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.
This is a presentation i've done based on postmodern theory and the media. It includes elements which are postmodern and examples of different genres. I've also analysed some film trailers and a timeline.
This is a presentation i've done based on postmodern theory and the media. It includes elements which are postmodern and examples of different genres. I've also analysed some film trailers and a timeline.
This slideshow is being used by Film Studies 3030 at the University of Lethridge, Calgary campus. The slide information is largely derived as commentary for the Giannetti and Leach textbook, Understanding Movies, and Richard Barsam's Looking at Movies.
This slideshow is being used by Film Studies 3030 at the University of Lethbridge, Calgary campus. The slide information is largely derived as commentary for the Giannetti and Leach textbook, Understanding Movies, and Richard Barsam's Looking at Movies.
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2. What makes films postmodern?
• Postmodernism is late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and
criticism, which represents a departure from modernism and is characterized by the
self-conscious use of earlier styles and conventions, a mixing of different artistic
styles and media, and a general distrust of theories.
• Postmodernist film are known to challenge the mainstream conventions of narrative
structures and characterization, while also destroying the audiences suspension of
disbelief in order to create a work in which a less recognizable internal logic forms
the mediums means of representation and expression. For the film to convey their
desired meaning, they are also known to maintain conventional elements to help
orient the audience. Another example of where the film plays around with its
narrative structure, is the film, The Time Travellers Wife, which plays around the
narrative as Eric Bana's character goes back and forth in time, trying to reach
different conclusions within his life with his family.
3. What are the conventions of postmodern
films?
Postmodernist films include concepts such as pastiche, flattening of affect, hyper reality, time bending,
altered states and more human then human.
• Pastiche - an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work or artist
Flattening of affect – this involves technology, violence, drugs and the media lead to detached,
emotionless, unauthentic lives.
• Hyper-reality – where technology creates realities which are original or more desirable than the real
world.
• Time bending – used to connote the importance of time travel, as it relates to how time travel provides
another way to shape reality.
Postmodern films are also known to include other key concepts. For example, postmodern films also
include concepts like a pre-fabrication which is similar to how simulation is used in movies but this draws
the audience closer to already existing and noticeable scenes, and these are basically reused in narratives,
dialogue etc. A bricolage is also used, which is where a person such as a producer, editor or director usually
builds a film like a collage of different film styles and genres. It also includes met fictional which is were
someone within a film write someone writing within a film to demonstrate its functionality and is used for
shifts in narrative, impossible jumps in time or to maintain emotional distance for the narrator. Historic
met fictional is a technique referring to novels that fictionalise actual historical events and characters.
Temporal distortion is the jumping of time backwards and forwards. Minimalism is a technique used to
demonstrate characters that are unexceptional and events which usually occur. Postmodernist films are
also known to use other characteristics such as techno culture, paranoia, maximalist, faction, participation
and magical realism.
4. Examples of postmodern films
Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary and Directed by Quentin Tarantino
• Tarantino can be considered as one of the masters of postmodernist cinema. In fact most
of all his films are a pastiche of every kind of film and pop culture he has admired for
several years. Pulp Fiction is a dark comedy which does not separate the world into good
and evil. In fact it tries to disqualify the division completely.
• The film is told in chapters and follows a novel like style of telling its story which is also a
feature in other Tarantino’s film. Unlike the classical Hollywood films with postmodernist
cinema, the lines between the hero and the anti-hero blurred. Tarantino had once said, “I
always hope that if one million people see my movie, they see one million different
movies”. He also involves themes of intertextuality in many of his films, conveying them
to be a good example of postmodernist cinema.
5. Examples of postmodern films
Run Lola Run (1998)
• Written and Directed by Tom Tykwer
• The film ‘Run Lola Run’ is portrayed to be like a video game. It is non-linear and almost plays
in a loop with mixing elements of live action and animation. The film is famous for its
numerous jump-cuts and is categorised to be an ‘editing masterpiece’. The video game
follows the story of the lead character as she enforces her strength and ability to rewind her
life. The film breaks popular notions of cinema and uses the character ‘Paetsch’ as the
narrator, the popular German children story voice. At various places the film has tried to
bring together German popular culture together.
• The film also has references to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. The spiral staircase through which
Lola runs reminds of the spiral production design elements from Hitchcock’s film. Rhizome
is a theory proposed by Deleuze which acknowledges different perspectives to a singular
reality. This films goes on to compliment this theory by adapting a butterfly effect type
storyline. The cause and effect relationship becomes extremely obscure in the film. The
beginning, middle and end structure is completely broken when the film proposes multiple
ends to the viewers.
6. Criticism to postmodern films
• Philosopher Noam Chomsky has argued that postmodernism is meaningless because it
adds nothing to analytical or empirical knowledge. He asks why postmodernist
intellectuals won't respond like people in other fields when asked: “Seriously, what are the
principles of their theories, on what evidence are they based, what do they explain that
wasn't already obvious, etc? These are fair requests for anyone to make. If they can't be
met, then I'd suggest recourse to Hume's advice in similar circumstances: to the flames.”
• Many argue that the postmodern has infiltrated the narrative form of many films. Unlike
in Hollywood's heyday, when the plot was transmitted in the most seamless fashion
possible, many twenty-first century films, both Hollywood and independent, strive for a
narrative that defies linear logic.