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One of the key features of postmodernist thinking is the assertion of the fuzzy boundaries between reality and fiction: the realization that in everyday lives fictions, projections or hypothesis-building constantly interact with objects and facts of life (you can call this constructivist thinking); the realization that people’s identities are negotiations between social demands and imaginary projects; the realization that people’s senses of reality are heavily influenced by certain hegemonic (dominating) posits in terms of gender, labor (and consumption), media, race and ethnicity. Brian McHale has characterized the resultant tensions, as they are enacted in literature as “worlds in collision.” Cinema, as an art of montage and suturing, seems predetermined to enact these clashes. In this seminar we will explore the fuzzy boundaries discussing postmodern obsessions such as identities, surfaces, worlds, play, parody, high & low, consumer culture, media, gender performances and difference.
The Moodle Key will be announced through Agnes (check the email with which you registered in Agnes).
Movies to be discussed:
- The Truman Show (1998)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
- Shutter Island (2010)
- Mulholland Drive (2001)
- Fight Club (1999)
- Orlando (1992)
- Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
- Crash (2004)
Critical Texts will be uploaded on Moodle. |
