4.4 Wreck It Ralph & Jameson to Lyotard

Create Meaning

• Intertextual Mood Board Wreck It Ralph
• Intertextual References Wreck It Ralph

 

1. PLAY THE GAMES & CREATE THE INTERTEXTUAL MOOD BOARD

2. How does your familiarity with and immersion with the characters change how you read the text - how does Nostalgia makes it's meaning richer?

USE THE FOLLOWING WORDS WITH EXAMPLES

1. PARODY &/or PASTICHE
2. BRICOLAGE  
   INTERTEXTUALITY (TRON?)
   HYBRIDITY   
3. NOSTALGIA & RETRO  
4. PLAYFUL & IRONIC (Self Reflexive)

3. PREPARE FOR MID MODULE ASSESSMENT TASK: MICRO ESSAY 

Why is Cutural Recycling POST-Modern? 

http://leighmediaa212pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/wreck-it-ralph-analysisreport.html

New Information

http://leighmediaa2pomo.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Past%20Exam%20Questions

Discuss relevance of Tron and Measure our Progress through the questions

Group 1: 
Lyotard – death of the grand narrative post & 1 minute video explaination

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9EsvykB8sY 

http://leighmediaa212pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/what-is-pomo-lyotard-death-of-grand.html

http://leighmediaa2pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/death-of-metanarrative-or-death-of.html

Questions:

How does Wreck It Ralph conform the Grand Narratives?

What does he have to do to become the hero?

Where in the film does this occur?

Do the characters conform to their narrative roles?

Do the characters conform to traditional gender roles?

Are the boundaries of Genre rigid?

Any morality or ideological meaning?

The Quest

Voyage & Return

Overcoming the Monster

Group 2:
Baudrillard (Simulation & Hyper Reality)
http://www.slideshare.net/kimberley_vc/simulacra

http://leighmediaa2pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/week-3-theoretical-approach-baudrillard.html 
read through the relevant sections on Baudrillard

Apply the list to our clips – where can

Check your Learning – Binary Opposites Modernism & Postmodernism

Check Learning

ñ  How does this fit the (simplistic) definition postmodernism  as 'anti' or a rejection of Modernism?

ñ  Does it have the Jameson's stylistic aspects of Pomo - is it empty and superficial?

ñ  Does it collapse Nar/Gen/Audience/Representational/Ideological structures (Grand Narratives)?

ñ  What aspects of Wreck it Ralph aren't Postmodern (Grand Narratives?)

Yes column or No column

Carousel responses for homework using clips of the film - 5 minute presentation in mentor teams

Complete the Grid

Next Week: Carousel 
Apply to demonstrate – Discuss in Pairs, how does Jameson link to Lyotard debating why is Ralph Postmodern?

Present as a Goanimate discussion between the 2 theorists

http://leighmediaa2pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/arguments-against-lyotard-meta.html

Plenary

Given list of what postmodernism is... (in green) http://leighmediaa2pomo.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Challenge%20Forms%20and%20Conventions%20of%20Traditional%20Media 

Homework:

Read Posts on Niki Minaj & Lady Gaga

• Homework Case Study Lady Gaga
• Gaga/Minaj Postmodern Style Check your learning
• Module 4 Assessment Wreck It Ralph Analysis/Report...
• Jamesons & Gaga Telephone
• Interesting Case Study Minaj
• Postmodern Style (Jameson) Music (Gaga & Minaj)

Create a Mood Board on Nicki Minaj and explain why she qualifies as a Postmodern construction by applying the concepts and criteria below:

• Post Modernism Philosophy - The Theoretical Approa...
Does it qualify as Post-Modern? Checklist Terminol...10 Things you must know about Post-Modernism