As post-modernism is a idea of escaping what it means to live in this modern society, leaving stresses behind and entering an alternative reality within your mind, I would argue that all forms of entertainment are post-modern. Entertainment, especially in the form of movies, books, and video games, provide us with a way to experience the world in ways that we could not by ourselves. Video games are likely the most post-modern of the group stated above, being means of immersing yourself into another world, where you are distracted (like post-modernism requires) from the stresses and annoyances of modern life.
Books, movies, TV shows, and video games typically draw the consumer into the story, where he/she is totally involved with consuming, and disengaged with reality. These forms of entertainment aim to pull in the consumer mentally, so much as where he/she forgets they are in "reality" until the movie is done, or the book reading is finished.
I completely agree with you, after I finish a book I get so attached with the characters. I have a hard time accepting that it is just a book and that the characters are not real people. Good job!
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you are saying but if a person is sucked into a book while reading or a movie while watching it, doesn't that become their mental reality? So in a way, either nothing is postmodern or everything is.
ReplyDeleteWhile you make a very valid argument, my understanding of post-modernism is not escaping modernism. The idea is that modernism is past, gone, unreachable. Post-modernism is the idea that image reigns supreme, that what you see in media is more important, perhaps even more real, than what you see directly in life. You don't escape to it, you're enveloped by it, and can't escape no matter how hard you try.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you however i see postmodernism as the ability to draw more then one conclusions about something. for example in class we looked at a picture of a half opened door, in reality no one would think twice about that however when looking at it from a postmodern view we were able to draw many conclusions about what it means.
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