Here we are, AGAIN

yes. I've had to haggle with google, and make a new account. My old ones are completely broken. :/
Anywho...
post modernism

Parody: A parody is a mimic of a particular genre, and is more direct and satirical than a pastiche. An example of a parody of genres is "Epic Movie" and "Not another teen movie" and most of Monty Python is parodying ideas- such as Brian in "The life of Brain".
Aesthetic: This studies judgements and sentiments, as well as the way things look. It often uses other texts to promote itself as something in postmodernism. Such as the office" using the documentary style camera work to create the illusion that it's a documentary.
Nihilistic: A world of no values, or nothingness. Examples are "In the Thick of it" which shows a parody of the political world, and shows them as not caring about anything. It is also shown by 24 hour party people, which breaks normal social and even narrative bounds, making it nihilistic.
Irony: being jokey, poking fun but in satirical way. (eg, if you fail an exam when you try hardest.?)
Intertexuality: other works are referenced, often for comic affect and taken fun out of. (eg, in Harry Potter, where Mrs Wesley says: Not my daughter you bitch!
Play: playing around with morals, traditions, expectations, taking everything very lightly and jokily, making fun of everything.
Eccelistic: A wide range of influences, contributions and techniques found from all genres in the text, so the text is virtually genre-less. An example is the Mighty Boosh.
Self Referential: refers to the fact that it is a film, it knows it's a film, reminds of of it's purpose as a film, and that you are watching it-this breaks the 4th wall, and is often used to make an audience laugh at themselves, or to hit something home to the audience. An example is in "4 hour party people, where the protagonist turns to the camera and talks to it at the beginning, telling you exactly what is going to happen.
Hyper reality: The world is formed by the media, through symbols and signs, which are what we believe to be truth. Soon, because we are so linked to it, and believe it so much, it is hard to distinguish this from reality, and people live in hyper reality. eg-gulf war didn't happen, because it was so hyper real, it didn't seem to be anything more than just a war game. The disbelief in reality can lead to a nihilistic society.
Pastiche This is when there is a mix of styles, which can mean a mix of genres but can also be serious. (alot like eccletic)

Post modernism accoring to John Franis Leotard and Jean Bourillard.

Both of these men had ideas about post modernism, and about what we believe in. They think that the new media saturated world means that there is an end of reality and truths- no truth in this. (why people are becoming more atheists?)
Baudrilliard says that all truth was lost, that the media constructed the truth. The reality we live in is only surface meaning- we live in a world of signs and symbols, which add together to create the myths and connotations Barthes talk about. These myths are what we believe in, but they are created by the symbols and signs that the media create.(these ar repeated over and over until we see them as reality). Therefore, all truth is created, constructed and therefore distorted. (as Leotard says) This means that the world is a simulacrum. As these realities are created by people (claimed to be made up the high class) then this means what we believe both as British identity and about the world are all constructed and therefore could be seen as not true.
The simulacrum of the world creates a hyper reality, a reality which which created by the media and the semiotics and connotations. Therefore it is hard to distinguish between reality and hyper reality. An example could be the use of handhold cameras, promoting the media as real. (Although i think it also makes it self-referential.) Another example is the one by Baudrilliard, which says that "the gulf war didint happen". This is because of the coverage of the war was so much like a war game, and was so hyper real and well covered by all forms of media, that it looked unreal and created distence.
These both had ideas about the truth needing to be deconstructed, that what we see as truth needs to be looked at, and see where it comes from, and who owns it. (eg, we believe in fathers day-is this just a commercial idea?) This links to a Marxist theology of who holds the power. High culture is believed to be "better" than low culture for example, but this is commanded by the ideals of the higher class. (expectations of normal people are created by high people- eg, wine culture in France.) The UGC's maybe follow the more marxist approach, giving power to a general public to promote their versions of reality. (although could be too vague, not enhnaced enough- creation of nihilism?)

--->9-11
This was shown on TV and the internet in hundreds of different ways and news coverages, with different people, but with the same images. This had quite a few effects. One was to make the whole thing seem unreal- the pictures were ironically like american blockbuster films, and also like games. The repeatition of the images made them seem more and more constructed and less real. The twin towers became a sign which was recognized, but we reognize the media event not the reality of it. This adds distnace. The coverage therefore made it more real because of the coverage, but also made it hyper real, and this meant that the event was consuimed by the media event- it was a news stroy not reality.
-said that it could not be seen as a pure event, it is a mix of reality and media- therefore cant beleive in the event, as it had been distorted.

here is a comedy about postmodernism IRONICALLY.