1. Postmodern
By Shannon Alli

2. Television Programmes
Family Guy- One point that
makes family guy comes across
as postmodern is because the
creation of a work from a
diverse range of things the
show represents. Family guy
makes of quite a few
references from past
animations like Brian the
talking family dog resembles
the well-known character
snoopy they both interact with
humans and share the same
features.

3. Drawn together is a
Reality TV parody with an
diverse mix of characters
(from an overweight Betty
Boo to a sexed-up
Superman) This show
using irony and
intertextuality as they
used characters from
previous shows all in one
but in comic point of view.

4. Music
• Girl Talk – feed the • http://www.youtube.com
animals parts 1 using the /watch?v=VxA3atHD2QM
instrumental from – Spencer Davis group –
Spencer Davis group- “Gimme some loving”
”Gimme some loving.”
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• You could say that girl talk /watch?v=6JBAxkZun3s -
Is a postmodern artist as “Girl talk- Feed the
he takes old songs and animals”
mashes them together
with new songs creating
something new for his
songs.

5. • Eminem uses • http://www.youtube.co
intertextuality of m/watch?v=eJO5HU_7_
cartoon heroes such as 1w&feature=related -
batman and robin. He Eminem “Real slim
also references Britney shady”
spears from her “hit me
baby one time video”

6. Films
Film- Blade runner- Blade • Buffy the vampire- Tongue-in-
Runner may be considered the best cheek horror/comedy that
know postmodernist films. The film follows a suburban high school
is made in 1982 are about a future student and vampire hunter. This
dystopias where human cyborgs film blurs the line between reality
have been invented and believed and fiction .i.e. a vampire living
dangerous enough to hint down among humans.
when they escape. I think that blade
runner is postmodernist because the • Pulp fiction- is a quirky tribute to
futuristic action interlink with the old Hollywood crime dramas and
40s clothes and offices, Also the pop "Pulp" magazines, filled with
Egyptian style. The mixing of the numerous pop culture references
culture and genre creates a whole
sense of style.

7. Adverts
• Tango has a postmodern tone • http://www.youtube.com/wat
because of its distinctively ch?v=cRKbsPPeYH4
bizarre IRONIC adverts. The
first "ironic" campaign
introduced the now-common
catchphrase "You know when
you've been Tango'd",
produced by advertising
agency HHCL. The campaign
began in 1991 with an ad,
Orange Man featuring a man
being slapped around the face
by a portly man painted
orange immediately after
drinking Tango.

8. Buildings
The Binoculars Building, originally the
Chiat/Day Building, is a commercial office
building located in the Venice neighbourhood
of Los Angeles, California. Built between 1985-
1991 for advertising agency Chiat/Day (now
TBWAChiatDay as its West Coast corporate
headquarters, it was designed by Los Angeles
architect Frank Gehry his last project in Los
Angeles until the Walt Disney Concert Hall
began construction in 1999. This building is
postmodern because its disruptive and iconic
building for a disruptive and iconic advertising
firm.

9. The Sony building( formerly known as
the AT&T)
• The Sony Building (formerly
AT&T building) in New York City,
1984, by Philip Johnson
,illustrating a "Postmodern" spin
with the inclusion of a classical
broken pediment on the top
which diverged from the boxy
functional office towers common
in Modern Architecture