Browse Hierarchy FLM506: Modern/Postmodern Cinema

Modern/Postmodern Cinema traces the relationship of film to the epochal paradigms of modernism and postmodernism in the first half and latter part of the twentieth century respectively. At the turn of the twentieth century, cinema emerged as the unprecedented medium for capturing time, at a moment in which time was being redefined by industrialism, the urban, the expansion of capitalism, and technologies of reproduction. In the post-war period and up until the turn of the twenty-first century, cinema became an integral part of a self-reflexive culture of representation, in which recourse to the real had been lost. In place of a representable world, postmodern cinema maybe seen to rework past classical films, remixing the rules of genre and appropriating cultures from elsewhere, culminating in a playful and often dark textuality.