Tutorial three

What is PostModernism?

Modernism means now. Post means after. We are living in the after now.
Philosophical and aesthetic conditions that have developed since the 1950's.

A catalogue of previous epochs leading up to Post Modernism - post structuralism.

Middle Ages - Church holds power.
Renaissance - Reawakening
Enlightenment - Triumph of reason and technology
Modernism - 1900 - 1950
Post-modernism

postmodern-postmortem


ART THOUGHTZ: Post-Structuralism from Hennessy Youngman on Vimeo.

Intertextuality is the shaping of texts' meanings by other texts. It can include an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another. The term “intertextuality” has, itself, been borrowed and transformed many times since it was coined by poststructuralist Julia Kristeva in 1966.

Simpsons - MadMen

Postmodernism and The Simpsons 

Intertextuality, Hyperreality and Critique of Metanarratives

Family Guy - Aha

FAMILY GUY: Textual Devices and Masculine Vices