Basic Postmodern Ideas
- Postmodern media rejects the idea that any media product or text is of any greater value than another. All judgements of value are merely taste. Anything can be art, anything can deserve to reach an audience, and culture 'eats itself' as there is no longer anything new to produce or distribute.
- The distinction between media and reality has collapsed, and we now live in a 'reality' defined by images and representations - a state of simulacrum. Images refer to each other and represent each other as reality rather than some 'pure' reality that exists before the image represents it - this is the state of hyperreality.
- All ideas of 'the truth' are just competing claims - or discourses - and what we believe to be the truth at any point is merely the 'winning' discourse.
Source: OCR Media Studies for A2 Textbook
Film-Noir
- Voice over is a typical feature of film noir.
- The story involved a crime and an investigating hero.
- Themes include fear, mistrust, bleakness, loss of innocence, despair and paranoia.
- Story lines were often elliptical, non-linear and twisting. Narratives were frequently complex, maze-like and convoluted, and typically told with foreboding background music.
- Jarring editing or juxtaposition elements, ominous shadows, skewed camera angles.
- Dramatic patterns of light and shade created by light filtering through a blind or latticed windows.
- Film noir is associated with an urban context, cities and low life areas.
- Women in this genre were either dutiful, reliable, trustworthy, loving or femme fatales.
Science Fiction
- Science fiction is often based on scientific principles and technology.
- Science fiction may make predictions about life in the future.
- Often deals with non-human life forms.
- Can comment on important issues in society.
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