CHRISTMAS WORK EXAM PREP

Starter - why are these relevant to our study?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YERtfFpLIsU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3efV2wqEjEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lusyrxzOtDU


Recap: http://leighmediaa212pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/how-tv-ruined-your-life-progress.html

Assessment: http://leighmediaa212pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/42-what-was-pomo-again-revision-homework.html

Watch and analyse Wreck It Ralph (case study one)
Initial thoughts - http://leighmediaa212pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/theorists-street-signs.html

1. Why does it LOOK Pomo? (Jameson)
2. Does it THINK Pomo? (Baudrillard)
3. Is it AFTER modernism (what structures and boundaries - Lyotard)

Task 1.
Pick up where we left off.
Apply each of the TERMINOLOGY words to Wreck It Ralph - screen captures please.

http://leighmediaa212pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/week-2-so-what-is-post-modernism-again.html

Task 2.
Fill in the grid to EXPLAIN why these TERMS are Pomo (how they break boundaries)

Homework:

Task 3. PRE-READING/THINKING FOR 1st CLASS
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON LINKING JAMESONS STYLISTIC POMO ASPECTS TO NOSTALGIA.

http://leighmediaa212pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/lesson-43-case-study-1-wreck-it-ralph.html


Session 2:
Apply to demonstrate:
Close analysis of scenes from Wreck It Ralph:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6hk0WVDZfsiODdyOWtDYi1vRzg&usp=sharing

Using your grids from last week, analyse using Lyotard's Critical Appraoch
1. Breaks or collapses structures between:

1. Human & Technology
2. Real and Artificial
3. Good and Evil
4. Male and Female
5. Genres

Q: Are there any Modernism aspects that make Ralph still Modernist?

2. Demonstrates a Lack of Belief in Progress or Rejection of Grand Narratives   

1. Morality (Good beats evil, self sacrifice etc) - it is a Disney film...
2. Dystopia
3. Positive Resolution
4. Democracy
5. Intertextual references

3. Demonstrates emptiness of superficial

Simulacra and Hyper-reality (celebrates the artifical)
Intertextual references
Style over substance (VFX over story)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6hk0WVDZfsiaEp5WllnZ1pteVU/view?usp=sharing

Q: To what extent is Ralph a Post Modern media text?
In what ways it is most pomo?

New Info: Jameson & Cultural Recycling (stylistic approach)

"in a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is leftis to imitate dead styles” Jameson

Create Meaning: Mind Map the Intertextual references from the film

Q. How does your familiarity with and immersion with the characters change how you read the text - how does Nostalgia makes it's meaning richer? 

• Why is Ralph Post-modern?
• Why is Cutural Recycling POST-Modern?
• Intertextual Mood Board Wreck It Ralph
• Intertextual References Wreck It Ralph

To what extent is Wreck It Ralph a 'Post'-Modern text? 

Collect examples from the clips

Discuss how it demonstrates the following to create something new and create Nostalgia 

1. PARODY &/or PASTICHE
2. BRICOLAGE  
   INTERTEXTUALITY (TRON?)
   HYBRIDITY   
3. NOSTALGIA & RETRO  
4. PLAYFUL & IRONIC (Self Reflexive)

 

Feedback on Liniot

1. Analyse the film for examples of Cultural Recycling (Intertextuality, Bricolage) - how is it making something out of existing texts and how does it create Nostalgia/Retro?

Create Meaning

http://leighmediaa212pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/why-is-cutural-recycling-post-modern.html 

Homework: MID MODULE ASSESSMENT TASK: MICRO ESSAY 2: 300 WORDS

http://leighmediaa212pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/wreck-it-ralph-analysisreport.html