Postmodernism

“Postmodernism is a currently popular intellectual concept. It is used as a way of grouping and describing the styles of thought and culture attracting most critical attention during the final few decades of the twentieth century. It is sometimes affectionately referred to as 'pomo' by people with beards. 'Postmodernist thought' has caused a revolution across all academic disciplines, from Physics to English via Geography. Postmodernism offers a different way of both constructing and deconstructing ideas.” Quoted from www.mediaknowall.com/alevkeyconcepts/postmod.html

From what I have understood, Post-Modernism is when a text refers to a period in the past that was popular and is easily recognised, as it gained so much attention. Modernism isn’t just the “latest” or “newest”, it also refers to a particular time period from 1870’s to 1950’s.

This links very much to our trailer idea, because we are referring to Film Noirs from the 1940’s.

Post modernism favours the Pluralism ideology that audience consume the text in various different ways, giving the text a range of readings. This means that our trailer should be interpreted in different ways.

For example, the femme fatale character could be represented in different ways. Her dominant personality and power to do as she pleases could be seen as a positive thing, and would be praised in a femenists view. On the other hand, she is seen as promiscuous and a sexual object which represents women in a degrading way.

Posted by BIANCA GREEN