Monday, 4 March 2013

Postmodern Style (Jameson) Music (Gaga & Minaj)

Prepare for Learning – Starter: Intertextuality > Bricolage (DJ Shadow)
Bricolage your own samples - Djactivity mixing tracks together
 

 



 "in a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles”

Post Modern Aesthetic (Style) – what it looks like in Media Texts – largely rely on this - To consider whether a text is ‘postmodern’ or not we will largely rely on a stylistic approach, which themselves are a product of historical and theoretical approaches.

Jameson & Cultural Recycling – Create Meaning (Quiz)
  1. SIMULACRA,
  2. PARODY & PASTICHE,
  3. SELF REFLEXIVITY
  4. STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE – Superficial & 'Fake'
  5. HYPERREALITY,
  6. IRONY (Playful, trashy and it knows it)
  7. ALIENATION & DYSTOPIA
  8. BRICOLAGE,
  9. INTERTEXTUALITY,
  10. HYBRIDITY,
  11. DISLOCATION FROM TIME & SPACE
  12. NOSTALGIA
Therefore “Culture eats itself” Jameson. (Cultural Recycling)


Analysis of Lady Gaga & Niki Minaj as Postmodern 'characters'

Lady Gaga 1 group (Paparazzi) 

Nicki Manaj group 2 (Superbass)

  1. SIMULACRA
  2. PARODY & PASTICHE
  3. SELF REFLEXIVITY
  4. STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE – Superficial & 'Fake'
  5. HYPERREALITY
  6. IRONY
  7. BRICOLAGE
  8. INTERTEXTUALITY




Create a Prezi to demonstrate each aspect you can find – pair up and educate each other (split to define each aspect)
  • Music Videos
  • Album Covers
  • Famous Photoshoot/Press Shots
  • Early career/the 'reality' - what they looked like before they were famous
  • Articles about them being 'postmodern'
  • How they collapse boundaries/structures (ie. Pornography/Morality)
What to write/present: Focus on Jameson
Analyse how does it use Jamesons' cultural recycling/postmodern styles to create 'character'


Apply: Write a conclusion:
Explain how the character is richer/creates depth of meaning using postmodern style (Bricolage, Intertextuality, Paorody, Pastiche etc)
Check your learning
http://prezi.com/qmj8vltomnmt/nicki-minaj/

week 1 way in ppt. Intertextuality, parody, pastiche, bricolage, Nostalgia - Jameson

Create meaning: Intertextual Collage for your chosen text share 300 report to on PoMo style Homework
Go through together and apply each term to your text – to what extent are they pomo using style?

ppt. week 1 style post modern aesthetics jameson



Apply to demonstrate –
Wreck it Ralph – our key example!!! notes for the exam (watch the film, given set sequences)
Present as a Directors Commentary

Pick key sequences in it using key words from style aesthetics
Analyse meaning – how does the text become 'richer' how does it communicate through these cultural signs
Explain how nostalgia and cultural recycling are characteristics



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  1. http://prezi.com/au9mwbuboe-t/present/?auth_key=0tdbxpa&follow=x5o8djzo4skz

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