The Stunt Man.ppt

The Stunt Man Group II Sibyl Yang Alan Chen Eric Lin Vernoy Chang Claire Hu Lance Shen -- Outline -- I. Theory a. review b. the reflexive postmodern II. Basic Information of Vietnam War III. Stunt Man as a postmodern film -- Ambiguity a. Theme: 1. illusion/reality 2. sadness/comedy 3. control/freedom b. Analysis -- Symbol -- Relationships/Characters -- Setting/scene/music Review for Modernism and PostmodernismCultural / Epistemological Concepts Postmodern “Structure of Feeling”(Williams 1979, 1981) a sense of the fragmentary / ambiguous / uncertain nature of living an awareness of the centrality of contingency a recognition of cultural difference an acceleration in the pace of living The Reflexive Postmodern I A discourse about experience ? to partake in a range of discourses and relationships a. the playful self-construction of multiple identities b. invites the “other” voices which had been suppressed by modernity (ex: feminism/ ethic diasporas/ ecologist…) c. an ironic sense -- of the “said before” -- a reflexive understanding of the contingency of one’s values and culture -- film/ television/ music/ literature promotes the feeling (produces the condition of an ironic knowingness) The Reflexive Postmodern II Postmodernism as a historical blurring ? the past and present are displayed in “bricolage” and “intertextuality” -- Bricolage a. put unconnected signs together to produce a code of new meaning b. a style in architecture / film/ MV c. also a blurring of “genre” boundaries d. double coded -- intertextuality a. citation of one text within another -- allusion to particular programmes -- oblique reference