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Postmodern Aesthetics in Blockbuster Horror Sequels

Introduction
The postmodern aesthetic can be used to address all manner of objects and texts; this includes using these aesthetics in the horror film series’ such as Scream (1, 2 and 3) and Halloween (1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7) to illustrate the examples of postmodern aesthetics in blockbuster horror sequels. Both the Scream and Halloween series are films of the horror genre that exhibit examples of typically postmodern aesthetics and the qualities of a blockbuster movie.

Postmodernism
Postmodernism reacts against earlier modernist principles by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of a method, technique or style, for example horror film or romance novel. In other words using principles of a particular object or text and changing parts of it, while still retaining some of the original concepts of the object of text it is based on. Terry Eagleton in his book The Illusions of Postmodernism says “postmodernism is a style of culture which reflects something of the epochal ...

Posted by: Asare Mabel

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