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Postmodernism: pastiche, bricolage and implosion

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Pastiche, bricolage, implosion and fragmentation, and the collapse of the high and low culture divide.

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What are pastiche, bricolage and implosion?

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  1. 1

    What is pastiche in postmodern media?

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    A technique involving the imitation or combination of styles from previous works or genres without the critical intent of parody.

  2. 2

    Define bricolage as used in postmodern media analysis.

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    The construction of media texts from a diverse range of pre-existing elements, styles, or cultural references assembled together.

  3. 3

    What would happen to the meaning of a media text heavily reliant on bricolage if audiences were unfamiliar with the assembled cultural references?

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    Much of the intended meaning would be lost, as the significance of the combined pre-existing elements depends on audience recognition of their original contexts.

  4. 4

    What does intertextuality mean in media studies?

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    How media texts reference, quote, or allude to other texts, requiring audience knowledge of those texts to fully understand meaning.

  5. 5

    Why might audiences need prior cultural knowledge to fully engage with intertextual media texts?

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    Because the meanings created through references, quotations, or allusions depend on recognising the other texts being referenced.

  6. 6

    What does the term implosion refer to in postmodern theory?

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    The collapse of boundaries between previously distinct categories such as high and low culture, reality and representation, or different media forms.

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