Module 4 Assessment Wreck It Ralph Analysis/Report

Postmodernism makes texts 'richer'. To what extent is Wreck It Ralph a postmodern text? 

300 words

A Justify your argument - to what EXTENT is it 'Post-modern' (style, themes/ideas in the film)?

B Explain why these characteristic are considered 'post-modern' ('after' or 'against' Modernism)

C Analyse the characteristics that qualify the text as being postmodern (relate to Theorists)

1. Historical Postmodernism

Blurring of Modernist boundaries (especially Media Theories from Section A)

• Genre (different games genre boundaries, hybridity)
• Narrative (Some deeper 'meaning' behind it? BME structure, story prioritised over effects & spectacle, Dystopia - life not like a film, )
• Representation (Reality/Artificial, Male/Female, Child/Adult) 
• Ideology (aka Grand narratives - good beats evil, hero beats villain, hero = good, villain = bad) 
• Audience (between the film and & audience)

2. Stylistic Postmodernism

(Jameson)

• Intertextuality
• Bricolage
• Parody
• Pastiche
• Playful & Ironic
• Hybridity

(Lyotard)

• Empty of meaningless/Superficial
• Style over substance

(Baudrillard)

• Hyperreal (Augmented/enhanced reality - ie dogs can talk in Family Guy)
• Simulation (Simulacra)