Supplementary Material: Postmodernism (1 Viewer)

[McLake]

I am starting threads that will contain a definitive list of supplmentary material. Feel free to add to the list. NO QUESTION IN THIS THREAD PLEASE, only suggestions.

From now on all "what texts should I use?" threads will be DELETED.

Postmodernism Supplementary Material:

NB: This list is compiled from the posts below. There is no need to read through this whole thread.

- Misc
-- Perfume
-- History of the World in 101/2 Chapters
-- The Body Artist

- Novels
-- The Spoonriver Anthology
-- The Postmodern Condition
-- Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathusatra
-- Elizabeth Costello (or anything by Coetzee)
-- White Teeth (zadie smith)
-- Margaret Atwoods
--- The Blind Assasin

- Film
-- Adaptation
-- Memento
-- Moulin Rouge
-- Being John Malkovich
-- Mulholland Drive
-- Pulp Fiction
-- The Usual Suspects
-- Reservoir Dogs
-- Scream
-- Shrek (2)
-- Kill Bill (2)
-- Run Lola Run
-- American Splendour
-- Some Like It Hot

- TV
-- The Simpsons
-- Angel
-- Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
-- Blackadder

- Comic
-- American Splendour

- Musicals
-- Into the Woods

- Plays
-- Samuel Beckett(sp?) - Waiting for Godot (I know its absurdist, but my friend succesfully used it and got a e4)

- Essay
-- Death of the Author

 

[glycerine]

film:

Adaptation
Memento
Moulin Rouge
Being John Malkovich

tv:

The Simpsons
Angel
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer

drama:

Into the Woods (musical)

just some suggestions to get the ball rolling

 

[AsyLum]

Movie -
Mulholland Drive
Pulp Fiction
The Usual Suspects

Books -
The Spoonriver Anthology

 

[AsyLum]

Movies -
Reservoir Dogs
Scream
Shrek (2)
Kill Bill (2)

Novels -
The Postmodern Condition
Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathusatra

Play -
Samuel Beckett(sp?) - Waiting for Godho (I know its absurdist, but my friend succesfully used it and got a e4)

 

[glycerine]

its Godot. : )

 

[AsyLum]

ta i can never remember that!

 

[glycerine]

ahaha, i have a secret advantage... since my mum teaches it for drama, there's like 4 copies to my right. good play though. one of the individual projects for drama at onstage this year was like an aussie appropriation set in a pub, also very good.

a couple of other additions:
Blackadder (tv show - someone used it in my class they got 18/20 or something so I assume it's doable)

Run Lola Run

 

[zhongie]

Perfume
American Splendour (film and comics)
Some Like It Hot (I don't really think this is postmodern, since it's filmed in the 50s, by Billy Wilder, but it's got lots of gender confusion...and my friends used it)
Elizabeth Costello (or anything by Coetzee)
History of the World in 101/2 Chapters
The Body Artist


Essay:
Death of the Author

 

[porge]

novels:
white teeth - zadie smith
most margaret atwoods --> the blind assasin (esp)

 

[glycerine]

the young ones
french and saunders

 

[KarmaKitten]

Whats the point in everyone just typing out the same texts?

Poem
Bones...i forget the poet, will find out
The doco the scream

 

[skittlebrau]

Essay:
Death of the Author

I used this for my trial and lost marks. Apparently it's better left just as a reference to the philosophies which inform the texts, rather than as a text itself.

 

[gemita]

Drusilla Modjeska's Stravinsky's Lunch (novel)
Austin Powers Goldmember (not great for in depth analysis but a good example of how PoMo has infiltrated mainstream consciousness)
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (all male drag show that imitates female ballets)
Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry (novel)

 

[welshi]

I've used Shrek and the Artemis Fowl novels by Eoin Colfer. And a song by Thirsty Merc called Emancipate Myself.

 

[Carlz135]

Anyone using any of Stoppard's plays?
-R&G are dead (im not just robbing it from adv, i dont do it there)
- The Real Inspector HOund
- Arcadia

I also using Adaptation and probably Moulin Rouge if i need too

 

[pia]

Artwork - Anne Zahalka, The Sunbather No 2

Short story - David Brooks Alexandria

 

[AsyLum]

Casshern - dir. Kazuaki Kiriya

 

[somechick]

suggestions

I dont think its a very good idea to be studying video games. Because postmodernism is an ENGLISH elective, the makers will be looking for literary texts. My teachers (one who is like a rep for the board) stressed this a lot during my hsc. So, dont choose artworks or video games as they have less to do with literature and more to do with postmodern archictecture and art.



Novel: The Thursday next series by Jasper Fforde. (One book is good for like the whole syllabus, and plus, it beats the prescribed texts)
"Sophie's world" by Josteen Gaarder
Film: "amelie" by jean pierre jeanut

 

[AsyLum]

I dont think its a very good idea to be studying video games. Because postmodernism is an ENGLISH elective, the makers will be looking for literary texts. My teachers (one who is like a rep for the board) stressed this a lot during my hsc. So, dont choose artworks or video games as they have less to do with literature and more to do with postmodern archictecture and art.

The genre (if you can really call it that when really its merely a culmination of other genres stuck into one) really doesnt have a boundary as such and i think if you can find a game which breaks conventions and you can relate it back to post modernism using techniques then good for you.

 

[Kierkegaard]

Play-
Huis Clos, Jean-Paul Sartre