Monday 14 November 2011

Notes from International Postmodernism by Hans Berttens and Douwe Fokkema

Fokkema Douwe, Bertens Hans, (1997), International Postmodernism, USA, John Benjamin's Publishing Company

2. Postmodernism in the other Arts

  • return of the many headed monster strenching into many Art forms
  • crosses many boarders and develops within artistic fields

2.3 Postmodernism and Film - James Peterson

  • approach relationship between cinema and post modernism is to list basic qualities of psotmodernism art and how films exhibit those qualities
  • cinema itself is a complication as there is no such thing as 'the cinema' but a number of cinemas - broad term
  • most emphatic expression of the high modernist aesthetic in cinema was avant-garde
  • 'minimal film making'
  • 'neo poetic cinema' - approach of modern film form modelled roughly on modern poetry, a retrospective strain
  • the compilation of film - new works made by re - editing footage taken from old documentries, television commercials, etc
  • "The affinity between the compilation film and assemblage and appropiation in other medias makes this the most characteristically postmodern strain of contemporary avant - garde film making." (Peterson, 1997: 143)
  • "The post structuralist, and by extension the post modernist, is skeptical about the ability of representations to capture aspects of the real world." (Peterson, 1997: 143)
  • second form of post modernist documentary is that content of representation is not reality but another representation fragments of found footage and sound - the avant - garde
  • popular narrative cinema is metaphorically post modern exhibits significant fragmentation superfically or impurity
  • schizophrenia - response to the pressures of contemporary life
  • "The contemporary horror genre provides an extraordinary number of examples of metaphorically post modern cinema because it so often concerns the literal fragmentation of the body." (Peterson, 1997: 143)

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