More postmodern examples from lessons

Charlie Brookers Newswipe:
Absoloute lol (see the meme i got in there) i love this, it's so funny!

The aim of Newswipe is to expose the inner workings of news media. The series is a comic, thoughtful and acerbic analysis of recent news coverage. Newswipe also looks at the way the news is presented to the public. Experts are on hand to pick apart certain stories and analyse the news media's obsessions.

-This is intertexual as the texts meaning is derived from other texts.
It parodies the news and urges the audience to interact and engage rather then sit there and be passive.
-It remixes culture, we see a typic set up of BBC news, not only does this make it hyperreal (as it almost seems real, how ever it's a representation of a representation!) but it shows how there are no new styles any more and it mostly a remix of old styles.
-It undemines authority as the News is generally something highly respected. However it shows breaking down of news values, showing quite a nihilistic view.

500 Days of Summer:
Best Rom Com out there really, it's classy, well made film, which has an orignal narrative and a quirky style.


-Plays with narrative conventions of time and space with a non linear narrative, umped around, starts at the end.
- Nihilistic, 'This is not a love story, it's a story about love'. Summer says how she doesn't believe in love. Little values. Different to normal conventions of a Rom Com.
-Intertexuality- Sid and Nancy references. More references to this with viral video of them acting a scene from this film.
-Irony- The Smiths, quite depressing band, ironic as it's a band that brings them together= happiness (for a while at least)
-Parody- Disney cartoon bird- intertexual and funny.
- Feminism- tables turned.
-Genres blurred: not a love story.
-Bricolage- lots of different bit of other types of filming put in for example, informational video and other black and white scenes.

Grand narrative

Metanarratives are thought to be a comprehensive explanation of historical experience or knowledge. They are grand, large-scale theories and philosophies of the world, such as the progress of history, the knowability of everything by science, and the possibility of absolute freedom. Therefore, a metanarrative is a story about a story, encompassing and explaining other 'little stories' within schemes.
According to postmodernism, metanarratives have lost their power to convince – they are, literally, stories that are told in order to legitimise various versions of "the truth" and we now ceased to believe that narratives of this kind are adequate to represent and contain us all. We have become alert to difference, diversity, the incompatibility of our aspirations, beliefs and desires, and for that reason postmodernity is characterised by an abundance of micronarratives.
We now focus on specific local contexts as well as the diversity of human experience.

The Wire

The Wire is an American television drama series, each season focuses on a different facet of the city of Baltimore. There are seasons on the illegal drug trade, the port system, the city government and bureaucracy, the school system, and the print news media. It focuses on how institutions have an effect on individuals, wether you're a cop, a longshoreman, a drug dealer, a politician, a judge or a lawyer, must contend with whatever institution you've committed to.

The show is not postmodern in terms of style or aesthetics, but focuses on postmodern society in which life is meaningless and huge cooperations and institutions dominate the world in the capitalist system. We can link this to Buadrillard's work on the power of the system over us and also link it to the matrix as it tackles similar themes.

The next series is about the media, which is fitting!