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

 

Homework: Revision - to what extent is Wreck it Ralph PoMo & why

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

1. ANALYSE THE FILM & COMPLETE THE ABOVE SHEET

 

2. PLAY THE GAMES & CREATE THE INTERTEXTUAL MOOD BOARD

3. How does your familiarity with and immersion with the characters change how you read the text - how does Nostalgia makes it's meaning richer? 300 WORDS

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

 

Tron (1984) Older version of Postmodernism

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Lesson 4.3 Case Study 1: Wreck It Ralph Style & Structure (Hist)

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

Starter: Pokemon & Chinpokomon south park

Pokemon – revise your H/W what elements of Pomo are there?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD-b1pwZKNs  

http://southpark-zone.blogspot.com/2008/01/s3-chinpokomon.html  

How to spot a Postmodern text - Aesthetics & Style...

What was the purpose of pokemon?

Task: Draw  your own – name & special power

How do you feel when you reminiscence?  What is that feeling & why is it marketable – what will happen in 18 years (transformers & my generation)

Swap and discuss this list – ANALYSE, how does this make Pokemon deeper meanings or a 'richer' text for study (18 years old!!!)

Create a 'quote' to respond to justifying Pokemon as a Case Study for Pomo (a kids show flogging toys as a valid cultural statement like Shakespeare an that)

Consumer Culture/materialism

Hyper-reality/Simulation 

Global culture/national boundaries

Nostalgia is a powerful postmodern drug

Screen Tron 1^st x 30 mins

Historical version of Postmodernism compare style to Wreck It Ralph

How does this demonstrate Nostalgia, CULTURAL RECYCLING?

Discuss relationship of the film to Tron

How is the clip postmodern?

Religion (grand narratives)

Collapse boundaries between 2 worlds

Heightened augmented reality

Human or Technology ('User' or 'Programme')

Simulation (faces, clouds & cities, people 

Audience sense of nostalgia (Retro) conclusion

Q. How does this relate to Wreck It Ralph? How has postmodernism developed from it's older*** version of Postmodernism?

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

Create Meaning: Mind Map the Intertextual references from the film

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

• Why is Ralph Post-modern?
• Why is Cutural Recycling POST-Modern?
• Intertextual Mood Board Wreck It Ralph
• Intertextual References Wreck It Ralph

To what extent is Wreck It Ralph a 'Post'-Modern text? 

Collect examples from the clips

Discuss how it demonstrates the following to create something new and create Nostalgia

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

 

Feedback on Liniot

1. Analyse the film for examples of Cultural Recycling (Intertextuality, Bricolage) - how is it making something out of existing texts and how does it create Nostalgia/Retro?

 

Create Meaning

http://leighmediaa212pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/why-is-cutural-recycling-post-modern.html 

2. Historical 'Post structural' Approach

Analyse how the film demonstrates the collapse of structures (Narrative, Genre, Stereotypes Hero/Villain, Gender, Real/Artificial, Audience)?

3. Explain why Intertextuality, Nostalgia and Bricolage are 'post' modern are 'after' or 'anti' Modern

4. Justify: Is Ralph Post-structurally 'Postmodern' - does it have any 'grand narratives' (messages or morality) - it is a Disney film...

Homework: MID MODULE ASSESSMENT TASK: MICRO ESSAY 2: 300 WORDS

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

4.2 What was PoMo again - revision homework

Complete the grid using your notes and the PPTs at the bottom of this weeks lesson post

Responses from last years studenrts own examples

http://leighmediaa212pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/what-is-pomo-short-answer-from-moe.html

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Week 2: So What is Post Modernism again?

Starter:

Why is this Postmodern:

1. Structure - Genre, Narrative, Representation (Historical)

2. Style (Looks like)

3. Ideas of Pomo/Themes

Define the words:

 

Task1: Identify Screen Capture from the Scenes from Wreck It Ralph. Create a Mind Map using Popplet with example and your definition

Task 2: Analysis - explain why each term is PostModern BY BREAKING STRUCTURES (like Good and Evil) or A LACK OF BELEIF IN GRAND NARRATIVES (like 'Good always wins' or 'Progress')

SIMULACRA,

PARODY & PASTICHE,

SELF REFLEXIVITY

META NARRATIVES

STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE – Superficial & 'Fake'

HYPERREALITY, 

NO BAD TASTE (KITSCH)

ALIENATION & DYSTOPIA

BRICOLAGE,

INTERTEXTUALITY,

HYBRIDITY,

DISLOCATION FROM TIME & SPACE