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	post-modernism @ the informal education homepage
		Krishan Kumar maintains that postmodernists see the media in a quite different way to those who regard it as merely a method of communication.
		However, postmodernist writers have tended to move the argument on somewhat.
		Culturally, the growth and influence of the media whether it is the advertising industry, television or film has also led to tremendous changes in how people see the world.
	www.infed.org /biblio/b-postmd.htm (4890 words)

	Cyberpunk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cyberpunk writers tend to use elements from the hard-boiled detective novel, film noir, and postmodernist prose to describe the often nihilistic underground side of an electronic society.
		Cyberpunk Educator - A free movie about the history of cyberpunk films.
		The hacker subculture, documented in places like the Jargon File, regards this movement with mixed feelings, since self-proclaimed cyberpunks are often "trendoids" with an affection for black leather and chrome who speak enthusiastically about technology instead of learning about it or becoming involved with it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyberpunk (4867 words)

	Cyberpunk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cyberpunk writers tend to use elements from the hard-boiled detective novel, film noir, and postmodernist prose to describe the often nihilistic underground side of an electronic society.
		It was a complex and thought-provoking film that explored themes regarding corruption in government, misuse of technology, misuse of power, and society in general.
		William Gibson would later reveal that upon first viewing the film, he felt disconcerted at how the look of this film matched his vision when he was working on Neuromancer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyberpunk (4867 words)

	Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
		Ghost Dog portrays a violent and postmodernist environment that contributes a sense of bleakness, despair and dejection to the film.
		Racial tensions are highly evident in the film, and are showcased not only by the skirmish that occurs between the openly racist white mafia and Ghost Dog, but also by the bear hunters that appear at one point in the film.
		The Hispanic man who is building a boat on top of his roof further highlights the film's bleakness.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/02/22/ghost_dog.html (1443 words)

	The Village (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The film is postmodernist in its theme of mere appearance being forged as reality and poses the question of whether sheltering one's children from alleged "evils" in the world (such as much of contemporary pop culture) is preferable to allowing a person to experience the world on their own terms.
		After she climbs over the wall the final plot twist is revealed — the film is set in the present day (a newspaper in one scene has July 30th 2004 on it, the date of the film's release).
		The film opens on the funeral of a child in a small village.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Village_(film) (1371 words)

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		Marxist thought was instrumental in the birth of Film Studies as a discipline; despite (and within) the subsequent twists and turns—linguistic, psychoanalytic, postmodernist, post-theory—it has continued and sustained, albeit often in the nooks and crannies.
		We are particularly fascinated by her suggestion that film might accomplish a similar function as does micro-history by seeking to illuminate the experiences of the emotional subject from varied time and place co-ordinates.
		She continues to be interested in Belgian films of the first world war, and has begun a project on the colonial cinema in the Belgian Congo.
	www.iamhist.org /news.html (7165 words)

	Central Europe Review - Croatian film in the 1990s
		The late 1980s were generally a period of crisis for the old-fashioned European auteur film, as a postmodernist mentality and Hollywood's economic boom shifted filmmakers' interests toward narration, genre films and an ironic twist on popular-culture traditions.
		By the late 1990s, the social crisis had reached its peak and, at the end of Crvena prašina, when police shoot the brick factory worker-rebel and war hero, Croatian film finally opened its eyes to the increasing social, economic and moral crisis of the decaying Tuđman regime.
		Goran Višnjić, then anonymous but now Croatia's most famous film star, held the lead role - and he is now starring in the popular American TV show ER, where he replaced George Clooney.
	www.ce-review.org /00/19/kinoeye19_pavicic.html (2801 words)

	disinformation a cinematograph, darkly
		There's hope yet that Croghan and Jersey Films may capture Dick's elusive personality instead of the hyper-violent entertainment or postmodernist pin-up attempts to bring him to the screen to date.
		Australian film has been described as possessing a "purgatorial narratives", yet A Scanner Darkly is a very "purgatorial" story.
		Film researcher Mary Anne Read revealed in her book More Long Shots: Australian Cinema Successes in the 90s (Sydney: Australian Film Commission, 1999) that Love & Other Catastrophes was originally shot on Super-16.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/article/id1084/pg1 (1060 words)

	The Limey: Modernism Meets Classicism
		The Limey is a modernist (rather than postmodernist) film in both its theme and style.
		In this one respect, gender politics, The Limey relies on the machismo conventions of the gangster (and western) film (strong male hero with unique strengths and resolve, the moral use of violence, justified vengeance, etc.).
		In The Limey the figure of Terry Valentine represents the corruption of the music industry by way of his illegal money laundering, while in Performance rock music and gangsterism evolves according to the film’s döppelganger theme.
	www.horschamp.qc.ca /new_offscreen/Limey.html (3538 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Cherry Falls at Epinions.com
		Yes, Cherry Falls is a film that attempts to cross the postmodernist slasher film (and all of the hip baggage that comes with it) with teen cinema’s newest craze, the teen sex flick.
		Cherry Falls could have been one of the few good slasher films to appear after Scream--but it drops the ball consistently and really isn't worth seeing.
		Ultimately, Cherry Falls is a slasher film that had a lot of potential, but failed to realize most of it.
	www.epinions.com /content_18318986884 (3538 words)

	disinformation a cinematograph, darkly
		There's hope yet that Croghan and Jersey Films may capture Dick's elusive personality instead of the hyper-violent entertainment or postmodernist pin-up attempts to bring him to the screen to date.
		Love & Other Catastrophes was the success story of 1996, and Croghan looked to the Cannes Film Festival, the American Film Market and the prestigious Sundance Film Festival for international exposure.
		Like many film school graduates, Croghan had "no other avenue" to make films, she told interviewers, if she didn't use 'guerilla' film techniques.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/article/id1084/pg1 (1060 words)

	CultureDose.net - John Fawcett - - Ginger Snaps Movies Review
		If I never have to watch another postmodernist slasher film, it will be too soon.
		When I first started hearing the buzz about John Fawcett’s werewolf film, Ginger Snaps, I was guardedly optimistic.
		The movie, which was only shown theatrically at some film festivals here in the States, sounded promising—but, Mike Mendez’s The Convent (another much-discussed horror film that still remains unreleased here in America) also sounded promising—and the end result there was a film that left me very disappointed.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10002067 (1060 words)

	Bicycle Thieves and the Icicle Thief
		This is why the film will have little meaning for those who have not seen Bicycle Thieves (or have no underlying background understanding of "straight" cinema as a degree zero from which the pastiche of postmodernist video would be deviating).
		Nichetti's film quickly proclaims itself to be postmodern and ready to dispense with elements of naturalism, seriousness, articulated symbolism, logic and homogeneity in montage, and sentimentalism to arrive at an apparently depth-free assemblage of images which occludes the disjunction of the worlds it represents (or at least assembles).
		Nichetti's movie is called Ladri di saponette (= Soap-bar Thieves) and seems clearly to allude to the commercial environment in which the film-within-the-film is being shown.
	www.jimnielson.com /eviews/icicle.html (2399 words)

	Spanish Texts 2: Almodóvar
		Pedro Almodóvar is Spain's best-known film director, highly idiosyncratic in his approach to film-making yet often taken as representative of the spirit of post-Franco Spain: the essential Spanish postmodernist.
		We shall use Almodóvar's most celebrated film, Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988) to explore representations of gender in contemporary Spain.
		Instead, Almodóvar plays around — with cinematic techniques, with references to popular genres of film and music, with stereotypes of nationality and gender, with colour, taste and design.
	www.dur.ac.uk /m.p.thompson/almodovar1.htm (2399 words)

	R. Barton Palmer / Joel and Ethan Coen
		In Joel and Ethan Coen, R. Barton Palmer argues that the Coen oeuvre also forms a central element in what might be called postmodernist filmmaking.
		Palmer argues that for a full understanding of the Coen brothers unique position within film culture, it is important to see how they have developed a new type of text within general postmodernist practice that Palmer terms commercial/independent.
		Proving the existence of a viable market for "small" films that are also intellectually rewarding, their work has exploded generic conventions amid rich webs of transtextural references.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /f04/palmer.html (311 words)

	Cyberpunk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cyberpunk writers tend to use elements from the hard-boiled detective novel, film noir, and postmodernist prose to describe the often nihilistic underground side of the electronic society that surged in the 1980s and 1990s.
		During the early- and mid-1980s, cyberpunk became a fashionable topic in academic circles, where it began to be the subject of postmodernist investigation.
		Among the subgenres of cyberpunk is steampunk, which is set in an anachronistic Victorian environment, but with cyberpunk's bleak film noir world view.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyberpunk (4057 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: The Man Who Wasn't There
		"The Man Who Wasn't There" is film noir with a postmodernist edge only in its depiction of a man who is not quite here or there - he is a nobody with no ego.
		Of course, it is unwise and unfair to say much more because the film is not as dependent on surprise as it is on characters who act on instinct, thus surprising us at every turn with their motives.
		And those who consider black-and-white photography to be pretentious have no concept of what film noir is.
	www.all-reviews.com /videos-4/man-who-wasnt-there.htm (818 words)

	Wag the Dog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The film is based on a novel, American Hero by Larry Beinhart.
		The film drew attention at the time for similarities to the Clinton sex scandal, although the movie also makes reference to the first Gulf War as an example of war used as an electoral tactic.
		The film explores serious themes, such as the manipulation of the mass media and public opinion, with a comic sensibility.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wag_The_Dog (818 words)

	Alibris: Janet Harbord
		Harbord writes with authority, imagination and wit and her delicate deployment of modernist and postmodernist cultural accounts makes rewarding reading' - "Christine Geraghty, Professor of...
		Film Cultures weaves together insights from cultural theory and film studies to provide a complex and absorbing theoretical account of contemporary film culture.
		Psychoanalysis is a contested terrain both within cultural theory and its own borders of clinical practice.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Janet_Harbord (818 words)

	House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
		Will likes to film everything, and he mounted High 8 cameras with motion detectors all over the house -- as well as constantly going around with handheld movie and still cameras.
		For all its modernist maneuvers, postmodernist airs and post-postmodernist critical parodies, House of Leaves is, when you get down to it, an adventure story." -
		Measuring the house Navidson determines that it is a tiny bit longer when measured inside than when measured outside.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/danielmz/houseofl.htm (2043 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		But in contrast to the modernist Paris Belongs to Us and Out 1 and the postmodernist Gravity's Rainbow, this film is resolutely premodernist in all of its assumptions.
		By an interesting coincidence, Smilla's Sense of Snow is opening the same week as a rare revival of Jacques Rivette's first feature, Paris Belongs to Us (1960), at the Film Center.
		When conspiracy thrillers resemble detective thrillers--which is often--they have a built-in advantage, to my mind, because they typically approach the borders of fantasy or science fiction and play with the ambiguous line between the real and the fantastic.
	www.chireader.com /movies/archives/0397/03147.html (1234 words)

	Blade Runner and the 'postmodern condition'
		Since Harvey’s comment relates specifically to the film’s portrayal of "the conditions of postmodernity", however, it is the social, economic and political features of the GPD which must obviously be the central focus of the essay.
		Potentially, therefore, in considering the value of Blade Runner as a postmodern touchstone or litmus paper, as does Harvey (1989b), one might consider any of three different angles: the extent to which it is (a) a postmodernist text, (b) portraying postmodern conditions, and, (c) reflecting postmodernism.
		Within the GPD, the terms postmodernity (and postmodern) are commonly understood to account for the social, political and economic dimension of these changes, whereas postmodernism (and postmodernist) are used instead to describe concomitant cultural changes (Lyon, 1994).
	faculty.washington.edu /thurlow/research/bladerunner.html (3508 words)

	Basquiat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Basquiat (pronounced [bas ki '[* #1996#a]) is a 1996 ] film* directed by Julian Schnabel which is loosely based on the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
		Another film related to Basquiat -- Downtown 81 (a recut version of New York Beat Movie (1981) -- provides an in-depth look at New York City based on the time Jean-Michel Basquiat was an inspiring artist.
		Basquiat, born in Brooklyn, used his graffiti roots as a foundation to create collage-style paintings on canvas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Basquiat (384 words)

	Fantasy - Reference 2000
		Now for the first time The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales provides an authoritative reference source for this complex, captivating genre, exploring the tales themselves, both ancient and modern, the writers who wrote and reworked them and the artists who illustrated them, and related topics such as film, art, opera, ballet, music, even advertising.
		From its roots in the oral tradition to the sophisticated, postmodernist reworkings of the present day, the fairy tale has retained its powerful hold over the cultural imagination of Europe and North America for centuries.
		With more than 800 entries written by a team of 67 specialist contributors from around the world, 70 beautiful illustrations, and a detailed bibliography, this is an essential companion for anyone interested in literature, film, or art, or for anyone who values the traditions of storytelling.
	www.tangled-web.co.uk /new/new2000/fantasy-refe00.html (384 words)

	Pulp Fiction Movie Review
		It's offensive because it's a ponderously soulless sophomorically bloody film-school abortion, masquerading as a parody of cliche of a postmodernist cartoon.
		It's not offensive because the word "nigger" must have been used 69 times (and that was by the African-Americans in the film), nor is it offensive because Bruce Willis empties a round of automatic weapon fire into a bloody John Travolta as Travolta exits a bathroom with his defecatory reading material.
		No doubt many will say that PULP FICTION is one of the year's greatest films--how many will say it's one of cinematic history's most offensive?
	www.killermovies.com /p/pulpfiction/reviews/1me.html (384 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Behind the Screens
		Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde, a new collection of essays on the connection between that persona and those films, finds theorists -- feminist, postmodernist, psychoanalytical, and bisexual alike -- making heroic bids to claim Deren as their field's very own foremother before grudgingly admitting the rigid, anachronistic singularity of her vision.
		With her striking beauty, fierce-willed self-promotion, and outspoken pronouncements on the liberation of cinema, Maya Deren is ingrained in the mythology of American experimental film as much for her outsized persona as for her oeuvre of revolutionary films.
		Deren decried surrealism, yet her films, especially her famous Meshes of the Afternoon, were most often labeled surreal.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-12-28/screens_roundup5.html (253 words)

	Amazon.ca: Video: F for Fake
		Postmodernist that he is, Wells then proceeds to narrate and edit the film in such a perversely frenetic way as to blur the lines between what is real and what is deception, making for an often confusing but engaging work of art in itself.
		To call Orson Welles's F For Fake a documentary would be somewhat deceitful, but deceit itself is very much the subject of this curious film essay.
		Irving known especially for the biography of the late Howard Hughes.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6303473261 (1325 words)

	Encyclopedia: Fort Wayne, Indiana
		The Deltas in front of their house Movie poster of Animal House National Lampoons Animal House (also called Animal House) is a 1978 comedy film in which a misfit group of Delta fraternity boys takes on the system at their college.
		MASH is a 1970 satirical American dark comedy film* directed by Robert Altman, based extremely loosely on the novel written by Richard Hooker.
		Snyderman House, residence, by postmodernist architect Michael Graves, 1972
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fort-Wayne%2C-Indiana (1325 words)

	Info and facts on 'Mark Leyner'
		Mark Leyner (1956–) is an American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) postmodernist (additional info and facts about postmodernist) author.
		They frequently incorporate elements of meta-fiction (additional info and facts about meta-fiction): In the same novel, and adolescent Mark produces a film adaptation of the story of his father's failed execution, although he reads a newspaper review of the movie to the prison's warden, and then dies, before even leaving the prison.
		Leyner employs an intense and unconventional style in his works of fiction (A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/mark_leyner.htm (135 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: Jurassic Park III: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [ENHANCED] [SOUNDTRACK]
		Don Davis's classical training and years as journeyman film and TV composer and orchestrator to the likes of James Horner (Titanic, Apollo 13) and Randy Newman (Toy Story, Pleasantville) paid off handsomely with the pioneering, postmodernist-informed The Matrix, one of the 1990s' most acclaimed and adventurous film scores.
		Don Davis enters the picture and gives a dynamic score that is nowhere near as dark as Williams' Lost World music but at the same time is darker than the original.
		Don Davis is an excellent up n coming composer but the effort on this, JURASSIC PARK III does not do him well.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005LOOF?v=glance (135 words)

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