Examples for PostModern Aesthetics

CGI & Hyper-Reality of Real Events

Parody
Disjointed Narrative
Erosion of History
style over substance
Society of the Spectacle
Alientation
Dead Set

Intro to Post Modernism

http://www.flashgames247.com/play/6361.html play

watch http://youtu.be/qhyu-fZ2nRA?t=1m17s

watch http://youtu.be/lOQyA6Cj_cE?t=30s

what do they have in common

What can we say is the basic idea behind Post Modernism?

http://leighmediaa2pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/past-questions.html

30 sec skim –what's the exam about?

Ice – 3 aspects (describing the characteristics) Wet, Cold, Hot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp5UoSNW5G8

ñ  Historical (as an era – 'after' Modernism or 'against modernism', end of history/progress, cynical, what caused it, when is it?)

ñ  Aesthetic (what it looks like, style over substance, retro, nostalgia)

ñ  Philosophy (what it thinks like – grand/meta narratives, hyper-reality, simulated)

Does it qualify as Post-Modern? Checklist Terminol...

·  http://leighmediaa212pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/post-modernism-modernism-binary.html

·  10 Things you must know about Post-Modernism

·  Modernism to Post-Modernism
   How to spot a Postmodern text - Aesthetics & Style...
 ·  What Post Modernism is - a summary

Define what is POST-Modernism?

Why is it different to Modernism?

What key terminology is there, which have we already encountered on the course?

Who are the Big Theorists?

What are some key Media texts?

What are the 3 types of Post-Modernism?

What are the characteristics of Post Modernism

Present your Avatar (Vitual You - why is this postmodern?) to the rest of the group - take notes to list characteristics and examples
http://www.digitalfilms.com/

Session 2:
Focused on your own areas of specialism

  Half Term Homework 1 - Reading