Postmodernism: Notes from 5th, 6th and 7th Lecture- 19/10/2011, 26/10/2011, 2/11/2011

 19/10/2011

• Look up Roland Barthes 1915-1980- Post-structuralist, A writer interested in language
• Text is: Film, Advertisment, Graphics, Photography (anything that can be read)
• Criticals: Have an insightinto the text, revealing the intention and giving it away to us.
• The Death of The Auther is Postmodern.
• Collage/Montage becomes the primary form of of Postmodern discoveries.
• Marcel Duchamp
• Sherrie Levine: Killing the photographer and making a new meaning.
• Despencing singular deffinitio to create another reference.
• SwededFilms.com
• Jane Austin: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
• Relies with a reflexive relationship with their audience.
• Wikipedia embraces stuff that make people nervous. It is the crowd's opinion.

26/10/2011

• The Derrida Virus: Jacques Derrida
• Structure, logic and tradition are under attack by Postmodernism.
• Virus: It needs to enter into an existing system, it is a dead living being.
• Look up Christopher Butler: "Everything is constructed"
• "We live not inside reality, but inside of our representations of it."
• Final or true definitions are impossible.
• Deconstruction as an idea is all about revealing the invisible facts that we all taDke for granted.
• Binary Opositions: The meaning of words which are defined by our culture.
• The meaning of words is existing between us, therefore it is cultural.
• History is an events written by somebody, but did they actually happen?
• Man/Woman, Black/White, Gay/Straight etc : One term is privileged by another.
• Deconstruction is good at pulling things apart and making you feel uncomfortable.
• Zombie: Binary opposition (alive/dead) -We want one term or another.
• In deconstruction your need to chose/fix is being revealed.
• It makes you feel angry-you want the world to make sense.
• Aporia: when you can't find a right position on something
• Differance (French term): You cannot keep both terms at the same time: you chose either one or another. But the other one does not disappear, it is postponed.

2/11/2011

• Funny Games (2007): It de constructs Horror and Torture Porn- it asks questions about its own format.
• Metafiction: Enigmatic and Vague- A fiction which reflects upon its own nature.
• Realism: Writers and painters try to make worlds out of the real.
• The real is what we rely on.
• Human Identity: Culture is constructed by us so we are polluted.
• Deconstruction: Pulling apart something you think is solid.
• The Fourth Wall: Film pretended to be real. The actor addresses you directly, it looks out at the audience.
• Scream 3: A character that dies on the second one and warning the rest of the characters of what they should expect from a trilogy.
• The Droste Effect (French term): An image within an image. Inability to arrive, endless fiction. We never get to something solid.
• " A snake eating its own tail."