MUSIC POSTMODERNISM
Art often is divided into different styles. Postmodernism is the style in which mass media, capitalism, chaos, anti-commercialism and criticism of institutions are central themes. Famous artists that are often taken as examples for this period are Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein or Marcel Duchamp. The ability to reproduce is an important condition for postmodernism and especially for pop-art; a current within postmodernism. Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein are important figureheads for pop-art, where they question or investigate the function of mass-media, advertisement and the reproduction of images. The picture of Marilyn Monroe in different colors or the Campbell Soup cans are both works by Andy Warhol.
POSTMODERN FILMS
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Robert Zemeckis
02Broken Flowers Jim Jarmusch
03McCabe & Mrs. Miller Robert Altman
04Johanna Kornél Mundruczó
05H Story Nobuhiro Suwa
06The Wild, Wild Rose Tian-lin Wang
07Once Upon a Time in the West Sergio Leone
0824 Hour Party People Michael Winterbottom
09Blue Velvet David Lynch
10Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino
11Two Friends Jane Campion
12The French Lieutenant's Woman Karel Reisz
13Tales from the Gimli Hospital Guy Maddin
14Archangel Guy Maddin
15Careful Guy Maddin
16Twilight of the Ice Nymphs Guy Maddin
17The Heart of the World Guy Maddin
18Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary Guy Maddin
19The Saddest Music in the World Guy Maddin
20Run Lola Run Tom Tykwer
21Jackie Brown Quentin Tarantino
22The Simpsons Movie David Silverman
23F for Fake Orson Welles
24Shame Ingmar Bergman
25Sans soleil Chris Marker
26The Guatemalan Handshake Todd Rohal
27Irma Vep Olivier Assayas
28Pretty Woman Garry Marshall
29Arrows of Time Ken McMullen
30Vivre sa vie Jean-Luc Godard
31Angels and Insects
POSTMODERNITY IN FILMS
Postmodernism is a complex paradigm of thought, art, philosophy, method. It emerged, initially, as a reaction to high modernism.Modernism is a paradigm of thought and viewing the world characterized in specific ways that postmodernism reacted against. Modernism was interested in master and meta narratives of history of a teleological nature.Proponents of modernism suggested that social/political/cultural progress was inevitable and important for society and art.Ideas of cultural unity (i.e., the narrative of the West or something similar) and the hierarchies of values of class that go along with such a conception of the world is another marker of modernism.In particular, modernism insisted upon a divide between "low" forms of art and "high" forms of art (creating more value judgments and hierarchies). This dichotomy is particularly focused on the divide between official culture and popular culture.Lastly but, by no means comprehensively, there was a faith in the "real" and the future and knowledge and the competence of expertise that pervades modernism. At heart, it contained a confidence about the world and humankind's place in it.
FREDERIC JAMESON
Postmodernism as a movement in arts and culture corresponding to a new configuration of politics and economics, "late capitalism": transnational consumer economies based on global scope of capitalism (See
Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism).
POST-MODERN ARTIST VIEWS
Postmodernity as a phase of knowing and practice, abandoning the assumptions, prejudices, and constraints of modernism to embrace the contradictions, irony, and profusion of pop and mass culture. "High" and "low" culture/art categories made useless and irrelevant, art from outsider and non-Western cultures embraced, consumer society turned inside out. The grand linear narrative of art history and Western cultural history is exposed as ideological and constructed for class interests.
Banksy, whose work, above all else, is full of wry humour, will appreciate the joke and give his blessing to his latest adversary. Call it parody, pastiche or post-post-modern graffiti if you like, but Hanksy's tributes are fundamentally very funny - almost like Banksy reimagined for the internet meme generation.
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