Post modernism and the Music Video notes

Postmodernism - Taking the traditional and changing elements within it.
- Changing forms
- parody/funny
- refers to the past
- joining past and present
- plays with reality
- no one knows
- playful interpretations of culture
- intertexuality
- reinventing what has gone before
- rejection of past ideas
- mixing of ideas, styles and influences
- experimental > cannon- > post modern
- Blues --> Beatles --> copies --> SGT Pepper
- sampling
- experimental stage attempts to establish trends
- cannon stage works within those trends to fix them in our cultural understanding
- post-modernism looks at trends and mocks it before adding something new in
- music videos is a post modern stage of the evolution of cinema
- becomes new referring to the old
- band wagon - MJ smooth criminal
- top gun - will young switch it on
- backstreet boys - everybody
- Intertexuality
- homage
- pastiche - using images of one text to make a comment about another
- parody - piss take