Topic :- Post modernism and Popular culture

Name :- Rasil jambuchaRoll no:- 24 Sem :- 2/M.A.Paper :- The cultural studiesSubmitted to :- smt.s.b.Gardi maharaja krishanakumarsinhji Bhavnagar university

what is postmodernism?

late 20th century movement, in art, architecture, sociology, communication, fashion, philosophy, history, fiction, culture.

characterized by the self-conscious use of earlier style mixing of different artistic style and media, and general distribute of theories reject the opposition between ‘high’ and ‘low’ the claim of any universal or totalizing theory celebrates plurality, heterogeneity collapses the distinction between genre and convention thriller format becomes part of the ‘serious’ novel comic element and absurdity mark myth, fairy tales, legends and contemporary realities merge it becomes impossible to distinguish between reality and illusion (both character-reader)

the distinction between “real” history and “mere” fiction called into question postmodernism celebrates the very act of dismembering tradition postmodernism borrows from modernism postmodernism characterized by, “ incredulity toward metannaratives” - lyotard postmodernism is best compared to the emergence of computer technology it reflects both the energy and diversity of contemporary life as well as its frequent lack of coherence

postmodernism writers Jorge Luis Borges john barth James Joyce Faulkner's Frederic JamesonT.s Eliot Wallace

Jean-Francois lyotard and the postmodern condition

he characerizes the postmodern as a disbelief in and resistance to metanarrative the disbelief towards metanarrative is the disillusionment with totalizing explanation of poetry it includes narrative of science, philosophy, and religion postmodernism acknowledges that all knowledge is fragmentary, partial, and incomplete

jean Baudrillard and the Hyperreal

his central argument is reproduction and endless repetition of image, the distinction between the real and the illusory, original and copy broken down suggest- sign merely refers to other signs it refer to other similar sign rather than ‘truth’ it is a generation of copies of the real without origin or reality, or what is called the “Hyperreal”

post modern art visual art, sculpture, plastic art, design may be seen

incompleteble style are favorite device Use of the vernacular and slang in art ex ,

popular culture before 1960s popular culture was not studied by academics film studied, women’s studies, pulp fiction, comic books, television, popular music, race, gender, class, reshaped and reshaped in popular cultural analyses William Gibson, Bruse sterling, Melissa Scott, pat cadigan write on science fiction, fantasy, contemporary realism

ex, FrankensteinSometimes popular culture repackage a literary work, that is impossible to read the original text , without reference to the many layers of popular culture that have developed around it