postmodernism

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Postmodernism:
what is postmodernism?
Postmodernism allows for cognitive dissonance - the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs or understandings

Postmodernism allows for playfulness, parody and self-referentialism

Jean Baudrillard and postmodernism:

1.The image is the reflection of a basic reality
2.The image masks a basic reality
3.The image masks the absence of a basic reality (plays at being an appearance)
4.Image bears no relation to any reality, it is purely a simulation and becomes a hyperreality

Modernism- 

  1. Modernism was about faith and optimism:
  2. Faith in people
  3. Faith institutions - religion, the law, family

Applying Baudrillard to stranger things:
The reality = real life 80's
The image masks a basic reality =  stranger things places itself in the 80's , basing it's entire series on the 80's and recreating the 80's. 'different 80's universe'- uses a lot of intertuextaulity from 80's films, e.t. , jaws ,halloween. 
The image masks an absence of reality =
The image replaces reality to form a hyperreality-carefree parents, 
Baudrillard and simulacra and simulacrum:

  • simulacra- examine the relationships between reality, symbols, and society, in particular the significations and symbolism of culture and media involved in constructing an understanding of shared existence.
  • simulacrum-: something that replaces reality with its representation. 
Applying baudrillard to Deutschland 83:
the reality= real life east and west germany in 1983
The image masks a basic reality= Deutschland 83 is based on east and west germany, communism vs capitalism

hyperreality- west is hyperreal , supermarket is exaggerated immensely 

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