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Blade Runner as a postmodernist film

Blade Runner as a Postmodernist Film

Postmodernism is a term that is difficult to pin down but it used more and more widely to describe aspects of the culture of the last three decades. One of the main features is its eclecticism – the mixing and matching of different stylistic elements. Some who use the term welcome it as liberation from the ideas of and reverence for “high culture” (for example, opera, ballet, painting, classic literature, etc) and the disparaging of “low culture” (television, popular cinema, comics, etc). Others see postmodernism as a trivialisation of culture by irresponsible academics caught up in admiration for the glitter of consumer capitalism and its moral emptiness.
Postmodernism describes conditions prevailing in the last three decades of the twentieth century, especially in the production of media artefacts, where there is a superabundance of images and styles – in television, pop videos, film, advertising, etc - which are readily availabl...

Posted by: Chad Boger

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