Post Modernism Revision

Modernism - 

• Came from Victorian Era right up to 1914 - came from the believe that the lives of people we're improved by science. 

Turning point - 

• First World War made people doubt that the world was a better place. Science created weapons that destroyed.

Post-Modernism- 1960s onwards

• The idea in the loss of goodness in people and a suspicion in people. 

• Brought on by The Holocaust and The Atomic Bomb in the Second World War.

• People gave up on religion. 

• Rejects and comes after modernism.

However:

• There are still aspects of modernism in society -

1. Genre Hybrids

Theorists -

1. Baudrillard - Hyperreality and Simulacra
2. Lyotard - grand narratives (MAIN ROAD - ORIGINATOR)
3. Jameson - Hybrility

Technology:

1. Communication

2. Hyper-reality

Consumerism:

1. Food - Marks and Spencer's 

2. Clothes - reputation for people to buy into 

3. Deaths - selling products, superficial, Micheal Jackson

Emptiness:

1. Collapse of Rules and Meaning

2. No Belief - religion, science, government

Nostalgia:

1. Video Games - not immersive

2. Snakes on Nokia, PAC Man

POST-MODERNISM IS A REFUSAL TO BELIEVE IN THINGS WE ARE TOLD TO BELIEVE IN.

People have lack of belief in progress so to make anything you have to look back - that's why there isn't anything new.