Postmodernism in music video

 1) How does the article define postmodernism in the first page of the article?

‘what is postmodernism?’                                  

you will most likely

come away with an

answer you’ll only

understand with the

aid of a dictionary

and a reading list as

long as your arm.

2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay 'The Death of the Author'?

The Death of the Author is the

next step after Nietzsche’s ‘God is dead’

statement and with it comes a need

to test the boundaries of what a text

is.

3) What is metatextuality?

Metatextuality is where a text draws

attention to the fact that it is a text.

4) What is the repeated phrase on the cartoon on postmodernism on page 28?

post modernism is a cultural movement that distrusts all established philosophies and frequently experiments with the medium it is presented in 

5) How does postmodernism link to media representations and reality?

postmodern thinker Jean Baudrillard

put it; ‘the distinction between

what is real and what is imagined is

continually blurred and meaning is

systematically eroded’.

One of the great appeals of

postmodernism is how much fun it

can be. It can be used to be ground-

breaking and traditional at the same

time.

Music video CSPs and postmodernism

Now apply postmodern ideas to our music video CSPs by answering the following questions:

1) How does the music video for Ghost Town incorporate elements of postmodernism?

chiaroscuro shadows on the wall links to fritz lang m shows intertextual references 

2) What film genres are alluded to in the music video for Ghost Town? Which scenes in particular created these links?

film and thriller due to the low key lighting on there faces to create a ghost like look

3) How does Old Town Road use postmodern elements in its music video?

the use of intertextuality and pastiche as it had concepts of country with horses and cowboy outfits but also hip hop with cars and being in the hood 

4) How does the Old Town Road music video reflect technological convergence and modern digital culture?  

through the use of two different genres combining as this was new and got removed from the countries billboards, this shows how it is of modern culture and the use of time travelling reflects the digital change

5) What do YOU think Lil Nas X was trying to say about reality and American culture in the music video for Old Town Road?

Lil nas x was trying to show how two completely different genres can work together through the use of billy ray cyrus and his status in American country culture