Sunday, 12 September 2010

MODERNISM

  • art/social-political movement that aimed to reinvent culture that had become outdsated
  • roughly occurred between 1890-1960s
  • a rejection against realism. divisions of modernism include avant-garde and surrealism.
  • films/novels/art were self-reflexive of society

POSTMODERNISM

  • 1970 ONWARDS
  • breakdown of barriers between genres and style
  • breakdown of distinction between binary divides
  • (e.g human and machine
  • mixing up time,space and narrative
  • emphasis of style over content
  • blurring of fiction and reality/ representation and th real
  • becoming more use to mediated version of reality, than reality itself (hyper reality).


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