Five Ways To Spot Postmodern Films

Five ways to spot postmodern film 

Playfulness and self reference 

This is when a film makes references to other forms of media, such as music videos, computer games etc,  the films are made to be known to be films for example the characters within the films would talk directly to the audience.  An example of this is the sitcom Sister Sister Both twins in the show talk directly to the audience. 

Generic blurring and intertextuality 

This when a film crosses between different genres, postmodern films would blur between theses genres a lot,  there also make intertextual references to other films. An example for this would be glee and the film brick.

Popular and commercial media meet high culture

Postmodern tend to like mixing high culture with popular culture in to the films, a good example of this would be… 

Fragmentation and the death of representation 

Postmodern film use a range of fragments from other texts, genres and cultural influences.  It says  that the modern audience are so used to reading media texts through advertising, film television and the internet that what we learn about the world is  not through first-hand knowledge but the through media’s representation. An example of this is 9/11.

Uncertainty and the loss of context 

Postmodern films can make people feel as if there are no generic rules anymore, and that representation only refers to other representations.  A good example of this is Inception as it makes the audience question at the end whether there are in a dream or not.