SELF REFLE

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Y O U R A T T E N T I O N T O T H E

F A C T T H A T T H E Y A R E C O N S T R U C T I O N S .

TODAYS DEFINITION “For Linda Hutcheon, the postmodern is much more an artistic style, recognisable by its self reflexivity and irony, especially in its relations to the practices and objects of the surrounding culture and the cultural past. Postmodern work often takes the form of parody, which has a highly divided and ambivalent relation to its objects of imitation” - M Fortier

PRACTICESWays of doing things Traditional narratives in film Character Types Codes and Conventions Technical practices Props, costumes etc

A self reflective text will challenge these ways of doing things

POSTMODERN SELF-AWARENESS

Texts are self-aware – it mentions itself, questions itself, it says what it is…

The boundary between audience and text is broken

Postmodern is METATEXTUAL

SURROUNDING CULTUREAcknowledging the social/culture background in which the text is

producedOften making ‘fun’ of that contexthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GvVDHruEPQ

Can make serious comment on the issues in societyhttp://seekcartoon.com/watch/27324-the-simpsons-season-16-episode-10-theres-something-about-marrying.html#.

Uwnv9mtFBdghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR4yQFZK9YM

Talks about current issueshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L2fsubA2-c

CULTURAL PASTHuman historyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVmdCAT7Rc8

Past textshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-eazu7FQEg

Can be critical of itself and its formhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvEXudbFhWU

DRAWS ATTENTION TO THE CONSTRUCTED NATURE OF THE TEXT

Direct Address to camerahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF7wckdzHXY

Seeing the means of construction (cameras, obtuse editing, jump cuts,)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_NpFX6OaJg

Characters drawing attention to plot holes Scream excerpt from 52:31Referencing the media itself – The Simpsons and Fox Network,

Use of ‘CNN’http://

www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/04/the-simpsons-skewers-cable-news-print-media-video_n_4211143.html

• Create a powerpoint using clips or images the internet

• Find another example for each point in the slide show that is in orange.

• Then next to or underneath it, explain how it is self-reflective or self-aware in this way…

YOUR TASK