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Explain Postmodernism using examples from film and television.
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Explain Postmodernism using examples from film and television. This essay aims to further the understanding of the meaning and significance of the concept of postmodernism and the culture surrounding it, by exploring the distinctive role which television and films play in modern societies. It highlights the ways in which movies and programmes have altered and continue to alter our everyday experiences. Since the early 1980's the debate on postmodern culture and the issues of cultural change, and other relations between time and space has been immense. For a long period of time now it has been taught that we are moving from the period known as the 'modern' era into a time of uncertainty, known as the 'postmodern' era or 'postmodernity'. The 'modern' context refers to the self confident, highly secular, humanistic worldview, whereas the 'postmodern' reflects the collapse of the Enlightenment paradigm, and abandonment of the search for objective truth and meaning....
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