Related Texts for Postmodernism (2 Viewers)

[JoyDivision]

Since so much of the course centers on the 'wider reading' bit, what related texts did you end up using for the exam?

Mine were -


'Being John Malkovich' film

'To Hell On a Skateboard' article in The Age 'Good Weekend' Saturday 2nd October

'Hello De Milo' - a piece of art created to commemorate Hello Kitty's 30th birthday, featuring the Venus De Milo with the head of Hello Kitty

'The Language Of Postmodern Architecture' - quotations from Charles Jencks

'Postmodernism and Consumer Society' - quotations from Frederic Jameson

 

[gemita]

Oh my god you put a lot in there! Mine were...
'Sexing the Cherry' by Jeanette Winterson
'Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo' (all male dance troupe)
'Metafiction as Counterfeit Money' by Derrida

I also threw in a few random references to Foucault and Simpsons and stuff....nothing in depth though.

 

[mozzie]

i used Patchwork girl by shelly jackson and Venice Reconstituted by RIp Cronk

 

[Thomas_wow]

atonement by ian mcewan and kill bill by my good friend quentin...

hohoho

 

[cwilson]

the impressionist by Hari Kunzru and Pulp Fiction by Terantino

 

[glycerine]

i used the musical ep of buffy and a musical called into the woods

 

[token girl]

i used the musical ep of buffy and a musical called into the woods

I love that episode! and into the woods is cool as well. I used this trilogy of short stories written all in postcards called Griffin and Sabine, and the play The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)-all 37 plays in 97 minutes. If you ever get to see that, do! I've never laughed so hard for 97 minutes nonstop

 

[the questions]

I ddiiiidddd Glenda Adams-Reconstruction of an event ( a short story) and MTV......!!!

quotes from theorists...

 

[KarmaKitten]

Memento and the documentary the scream

 

[absolution*]

I used Portishead, Alex Grey artwork and Waiting For Godot.

 

[ur_inner_child]

I did Adaptation (film. and yes its common)
and Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice.

 

[super katie]

I used Leon the Fish by Damian Kringas, absolutely wonderful book, incredibly funny

and Baz Lurhman Romeo and Juliet.

Also glycerine that ep is fantastic i have the cd of them all singing

 

[skittlebrau]

"The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde

"Dead Doll Humility" by Kathy Acker

And I'd prepared to do Kill Bill, but decided to do the other two in more detail rather than briefly mention three, seeing as it didn't specify number of texts.

 

[massmon]

Shinichiro Watanabe's - Kid's Story
Donnie Darko - Richard Kelly
Dean Kiley - I Panicked So I Hit Him With A Brick
Yann Martel - Life Of Pi
Annie Proulx - The Shipping News

mates used bohemian rhapsody, waiting for godot, memento and adaptation

 

[JoyDivision]

How did you link Donnie Darko to Postmodernism? Im interested because I used it as a related text for Inner Journeys.

 

[massmon]

postmodern foot prints

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  marketability
  challenge of construction
  pastiche
  parody
  satire
  humour
  intertextuality
  eclecticism
  self-reflectivity

I would have used it for imaginative journey, yet I saw closer links with Watanabe's Kid's Story and Cervantes Don Quixote.

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