What Is Post-Modernism?

Post Modernism is the recognition that times around us are changing, that culture is moving on. Post-Modernism accepts that all pieces of media are open to user interpretation, therefore the value of all are equal to one another. An excellent example I could use is the TV show 'Dexter' which has an incredibly Post-Modernist concept, where we see the Miami metro lab tech also being Miami's biggest serial killer. Before Post-Modernism set in that would have not been culturally accepted as it would have been to dark. Another very Post Modern example is 'The Office' which was a British Sit-Com made in the early 2000's. Its genre was being a Mockumentary. A Mockumentary is the taking of a fictitious story line and showing it as realistic to the viewer. This is a good example purely because when it originally came out it had people questioning weather it was real or not. With it's Documentary layout and realistic Q&A sessions with the Co-Workers it really sets out to be real.

Rock of the Ages. 
This is a very Post- Modern example. As normal musicals contain classical music and tend to have one women singing about something stupid on a hill top. Whereas this has taken the whole idea of the stereotypical musical and turned it on its head. While still following most genre conventions. The music in the movie is a bit different from the standard things you would hear in a musical. They are all massive rock hits from the 80's and with that it sways away from the standard family musical, and becomes a more a 21st century musical in which we realize life isn't all glamorous and cheesy songs.



Pulp Fiction.

The film is interweaving some stories of gangsters. A boxer and robbers. The film breaks down the chronological time and demonstrates a particular fascination with intertextuality. For example bringing in some texts from both traditionally 'high' and 'low' realms of art. The use of different parts of media creates 'a loose, transitory combination of media consumption choices.' Pulp Fiction fractures the time by using asynchronous time lines, and by using different styles and combining them together to form a movie. It also demonstrates the postmodern obsession with signs and subjective perspective as the exclusive location of anything resembling meaning.