Self reflexivity: this involves the seemingly paradoxical combination of self-consciousness and some sort of historical grounding. Memento is self reflective because he is constantly questioning what he should be thinking and who to trust. Fight Club has these elements where they brake the 4th wall.
Irony: Post modernism uses irony as a primary mode of expression, but it also abuses, installs, and subverts conventions and usually negotiates contradictions through irony. An example of this is the title Born Free by M.I.A. is about ginger haired people who are killed for the colour of their hair. Inglorious Basterds is another example because it abuses the conventions of war films because usually they are based on true storys but Inglorious Basterds clearly changes the history with the ending.
Boundaries: Post modernism challenges the boundaries between genres, art forms, theory and art, high art and the mass media. An example of this is Inglorious Basterds changes the generic conventions of war films because it hasn't based its film on a true story but changes history and made it obvious that they had do that. Pulp Fiction is a mainstream film 24 hour party people braking the 4th wall fight club brakes the 4th wall. Fight Club is like a drama as well as being an action film.
Constructs: Post modernism is actively involved in examining the constructs society creates including, but not exclusively, the following:
Nation: Post modernism examines the construction of nations/nationality and questions such constructions
Gender: Post modernism reassesses gender, the construction of gender, and the role of gender in cultural formations. An example of this is in Fight Club where they feel to be masculine they have to fight. When Edward Nortons character goes to the testicular cancer club Bob says to him 'Are we men?' after having his testicles removed
Race: Post modernism questions and reassesses constructs of race. An example of this is in M.I.A.'s Born Free video the ginger haired people are killed just for the colour of their hair which we normally hear this type of act associated the different races. pulp fiction is related strongly to race because they constantly refer back to the bible. Marcel in Inglorious Basterds is a black man working in the cinema has to stay way from everyone because he is black
Sexuality: Post modernism questions and reassesses constructs of sexuality. An example of this is in fight club where to me seen as males they had to do masculine things like fight
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
Kramers rules
Media Theorist Jonathan Kramer says "the idea that postmodernism is less a surface style or historical period than an attitude. Kramer goes on to say 16 "characteristics of postmodern music, by which I mean music that is understood in a postmodern manner, or that calls forth postmodern listening strategies, or that provides postmodern listening experiences, or that exhibits postmodern compositional practices."
According to Kramer (Kramer 2002, 16–17), postmodern music":
1. is not simply a repudiation of modernism or its continuation, but has aspects of both a break and an extension
2. is, on some level and in some way, ironic
3. does not respect boundaries between sonorities and procedures of the past and of the present
4. challenges barriers between 'high' and 'low' styles
5. shows disdain for the often unquestioned value of structural unity
6. questions the mutual exclusivity of elitist and populist values
7. avoids totalizing forms (e.g., does not want entire pieces to be tonal or serial or cast in a prescribed formal mold)
8. considers music not as autonomous but as relevant to cultural, social, and political contexts
9. includes quotations of or references to music of many traditions and cultures
10. considers technology not only as a way to preserve and transmit music but also as deeply implicated in the production and essence of music
11. embraces contradictions
12. distrusts binary oppositions
13. includes fragmentation's and discontinuities
14. encompasses pluralism and eclecticism
15. presents multiple meanings and multiple temporalities
16. locates meaning and even structure in listeners, more than in scores, performances, or composers
Aaliyah- are you somebody
In this video the background to the song has a baby gurgling for the background. This is a very unusual background which shows it is postmodern.
these are the rules that I think that this song follows from Kramers model; 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,10,11,12,13,14,16
I think the most important rule that this piece has use is rule 12 because babies gurgling isn't thought of as a sound that you would want to hear but timberland has made it into a catchy sound.
Aaliyah- try again
this song have very unusual back beat compared to normal R'n'B songs. the back beat feels a lot faster and more uncomfortable than normal R'n'B tracks. the singing starts of very slow and the background seems fast so it contradicts each other making it seem postmodern. I think this music followers these rules. 1,2,3,4,5,8,11,12,13,
destiny's child- get on the bus
This song has not only got the sound of birds tweeting but it also has monkeys chattering. This is very postmodern because you don't expect to hear this in any music let alone mainstream music.
I think that this song follows these rules from kramers model
1,2,
Nas & Damian Marley- as we enter
This is postmodern because it is two different genres from different backgrounds. I think the political views these two artists show are very simlar and that is why there song works.
I think this song incorporates these rules into their music.
Pink Floyd- shine on you crazy diamond
This song is postmodern because it completely changes the structure of the normal song because it starts of with a very long introduction and then goes straight into the chorus instead of having a verse then chorus verse and then chorus again
According to Kramer (Kramer 2002, 16–17), postmodern music":
1. is not simply a repudiation of modernism or its continuation, but has aspects of both a break and an extension
2. is, on some level and in some way, ironic
3. does not respect boundaries between sonorities and procedures of the past and of the present
4. challenges barriers between 'high' and 'low' styles
5. shows disdain for the often unquestioned value of structural unity
6. questions the mutual exclusivity of elitist and populist values
7. avoids totalizing forms (e.g., does not want entire pieces to be tonal or serial or cast in a prescribed formal mold)
8. considers music not as autonomous but as relevant to cultural, social, and political contexts
9. includes quotations of or references to music of many traditions and cultures
10. considers technology not only as a way to preserve and transmit music but also as deeply implicated in the production and essence of music
11. embraces contradictions
12. distrusts binary oppositions
13. includes fragmentation's and discontinuities
14. encompasses pluralism and eclecticism
15. presents multiple meanings and multiple temporalities
16. locates meaning and even structure in listeners, more than in scores, performances, or composers
Aaliyah- are you somebody
In this video the background to the song has a baby gurgling for the background. This is a very unusual background which shows it is postmodern.
these are the rules that I think that this song follows from Kramers model; 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,10,11,12,13,14,16
I think the most important rule that this piece has use is rule 12 because babies gurgling isn't thought of as a sound that you would want to hear but timberland has made it into a catchy sound.
Aaliyah- try again
this song have very unusual back beat compared to normal R'n'B songs. the back beat feels a lot faster and more uncomfortable than normal R'n'B tracks. the singing starts of very slow and the background seems fast so it contradicts each other making it seem postmodern. I think this music followers these rules. 1,2,3,4,5,8,11,12,13,
destiny's child- get on the bus
This song has not only got the sound of birds tweeting but it also has monkeys chattering. This is very postmodern because you don't expect to hear this in any music let alone mainstream music.
I think that this song follows these rules from kramers model
1,2,
Nas & Damian Marley- as we enter
This is postmodern because it is two different genres from different backgrounds. I think the political views these two artists show are very simlar and that is why there song works.
I think this song incorporates these rules into their music.
Pink Floyd- shine on you crazy diamond
This song is postmodern because it completely changes the structure of the normal song because it starts of with a very long introduction and then goes straight into the chorus instead of having a verse then chorus verse and then chorus again
Friday, 5 February 2010
Ethnographic model
Using the ethnographinc model (try and separate it into the three areas highlighted) evaluate your own text. Have you inadvertently prevented certain 'audiences' from accessing your text?
I have inadvertently prevented certain audiences from accessing my text because the domestic environment has issues about finance for purchase of media goods, the control of the remote, the gendered nature of watching TV and the 'flow' of TV that fits alongside or within a set of demestic relationships. So TV viewing may not be the concentrated, analtical business that some theorists suggest. My trailer is targeting the male gender but if the female of the house maybe the mum has control of the remote then the males will not be able to see my trailer so they will not be able to see the film. The other side to this arguement is that people with more money may have more than one TV in their house so they will be able to watch the trailer. This will mean that I am inadvertently preventing the audience with less money because they will not have the opertunity to see the trailer because they don't have control of the remote.
The second area is gender appeal. My gangster trailer appeals to a male gender so I am preventing the majority of females from watching my trailer.
The third area relates to the way we engage with the hardware in order to enjoy the output of the media. There seems to be a strong gender divide here with computers and complex technology fitting into the catergory of 'boys' toys'. There seams to be an increasing devide between gender lines just like the lines of information rich and information poor. Information rich people are people who have access to technology such as computer TV's etc and information poor people are the opposite. My gangster film trailers will target information rich people because these are the people who will go to the cinemas and watch the films. My gangster film trailer is aimed at males so they are the people who will engage most with the text.
Overall the shift in the models for audience has gone from mass audience to individual viewer with stress on the active audience is related to uses, pleasures, cultural, competence, situation and availbile technology for the particular audience. My gangster trailer has targeted males who are infromation rich and are between the age of 18 and 25.
I have inadvertently prevented certain audiences from accessing my text because the domestic environment has issues about finance for purchase of media goods, the control of the remote, the gendered nature of watching TV and the 'flow' of TV that fits alongside or within a set of demestic relationships. So TV viewing may not be the concentrated, analtical business that some theorists suggest. My trailer is targeting the male gender but if the female of the house maybe the mum has control of the remote then the males will not be able to see my trailer so they will not be able to see the film. The other side to this arguement is that people with more money may have more than one TV in their house so they will be able to watch the trailer. This will mean that I am inadvertently preventing the audience with less money because they will not have the opertunity to see the trailer because they don't have control of the remote.
The second area is gender appeal. My gangster trailer appeals to a male gender so I am preventing the majority of females from watching my trailer.
The third area relates to the way we engage with the hardware in order to enjoy the output of the media. There seems to be a strong gender divide here with computers and complex technology fitting into the catergory of 'boys' toys'. There seams to be an increasing devide between gender lines just like the lines of information rich and information poor. Information rich people are people who have access to technology such as computer TV's etc and information poor people are the opposite. My gangster film trailers will target information rich people because these are the people who will go to the cinemas and watch the films. My gangster film trailer is aimed at males so they are the people who will engage most with the text.
Overall the shift in the models for audience has gone from mass audience to individual viewer with stress on the active audience is related to uses, pleasures, cultural, competence, situation and availbile technology for the particular audience. My gangster trailer has targeted males who are infromation rich and are between the age of 18 and 25.
Monday, 25 January 2010
MGMT
Mgmt
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this is postmodern because it is taking two different genres of music and making a new reality.
this is postmodern because everything is drawn so it is creating a new reality because you aren't sure if it is real or just a drawing.
this postmodern becasue it is taking a song and changing it to suit a new genre of music
this is postmodern because it is making a new reality for the song because it is changing the genre of the song
this song is postmodern because it is taking two different genres to make a new reality
this is postmodern because it is changing the structure of songs because instead of having a verse a chorus and then a verse and another chorus it has a very long into and then starts with a chorus.
Friday, 8 January 2010
Postmodernism
Postmodernism can be seen in film with making new realities like in Pulp Fiction. You can also see postmodernism through music and that is what I will focus on in this post. Postmodernism in music can be that the music can be seen as it is so bad that it is good in an ironic way. An example of this is the Gnarls Barkley with 2pac and Biggie Smalls.
The music from 2pac and biggie smalls is old becuase they have both been dead for over a decade and the Gnarls Barkley song was only reliesed about three years ago. Another example is 2pac agian with other hip hop artists such as Nas and Scarface but they have been mixed with Damien Marley who is a reggae singer
The music from 2pac and biggie smalls is old becuase they have both been dead for over a decade and the Gnarls Barkley song was only reliesed about three years ago. Another example is 2pac agian with other hip hop artists such as Nas and Scarface but they have been mixed with Damien Marley who is a reggae singer
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
mia drawing a square
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/33054
deliberate bad backdrop
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/33056
links with 1972 deliverance and 1974 texus chainsaw massacure
the hair of mia is modeled on louise brooks in pandora's box
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd6hEhqz4CI
when jules recited the bible before killing the people that was liked to the night of the hunter 1955
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/33106
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/33054
deliberate bad backdrop
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/33056
links with 1972 deliverance and 1974 texus chainsaw massacure
the hair of mia is modeled on louise brooks in pandora's box
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd6hEhqz4CI
when jules recited the bible before killing the people that was liked to the night of the hunter 1955
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/33106
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