Terminology
Simulacra
Post-modern idea - sense of reality is dominated by popular media images - culture can no longer 'hold up the mirror to reality'.
An example is 'Endless Love' - perfect love story
Parody & Pastiche
Intertextuality - uses other ideas as a tribute. Uses the understanding of previous media in peoples mind to create humour and comedy.
Parody - Mocks
Pastiche - Celebrates
Bricolage
The process of adaptation or improvisation where one style is given a different idea when compared and collide with stylistic features from another combination.
A mash up of different ideas that explode when being put together, they don't match but they are interesting.
MUSE - knights of Cydonia
Texas movie
Unicorn
Karate
Hybridity
The mixing of different kinds of genre (hip hop) Post-modern texts raid the image bank.
A merging of different genres
EG. Rihanna mixing pop with rap
Theorists
Baudrillard
Jameson
Lyotard
