This assignment focuses on icons and Iconoclasm. a. Alienation and disassociation from logic, institutions, and meta-narratives. b. Iconoclasm: Mixing of high art and pop culture c.

Icons and Iconoclasm.

MLA format Not everything below needs to be answered, just a guide. a. Alienation and disassociation from logic, institutions, and meta-narratives. b. Iconoclasm: Mixing of high art and pop culture c. Iconoclasm: Mixing of genres: detective, comedy, musicals all in one d. Iconoclasm: Discontinuity in narratives (In terms of fragmentation and discontinuity: do the parallel stories make you feel that the film is fragmented and discontinuous? If so, give an example) e. Iconoclasm: Emphasis on parody, irony and play f. Closure and/or ‘happy ending’: Utopian oriented and seems to promote a sense of unity and a meta-narrative

Icons and Iconoclasm.

II. Postmodernist variations on Modernism and Postmodern features that are distinctive to Modernism a. Characters possess a pseudo alienation because the sufficient self-identity which is required to be alienated in the Modernist sense is missing. This is what Jameson refers to as ‘psychic fragmentation.’ b. Emphasis on ambiguity: narrative doesn’t make sense at times. For example, David Lynch films. c. Emphasis on destructured, decentered and dehumanized subjects d. Emphasis on chaos as the foundation of existence

Icons and Iconoclasm.

e. Simulacra: Emphasis on simulation. Hyper-reality: Jameson example: photo-realistic painting of a photo that itself is a simulation f. Emphasizes play as part of the disruption of meta-narratives g. Self-referential h. Nostalgia for past cultural icons not for past times i. Spectacle for spectacle’s sake (Moulin Rouge “Spectacular Spectacular”) j. Pastiche: parody devoid of laughter, neutralized mimicry k. Problematic closure if any closure at all: Centrifugal—dystopia oriented. https://youtu.be/46f-3rane14

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