FILM PRODUCTION

Development from Modernism to Postmodernism as this Shift Occurred in Film Production



Development from Modernism to Postmodernism as this Shift Occurred in Film Production

Introduction

The purpose of these notes is to present a model to recognize, respectively, the components semiotic nature of narrative film production, modern and postmodern. Postmodernism has shaped the dynamics of human communication since its evolution during the 1960s (Lash 2000, p. 232). Also, referred to as cultural studies and post-structuralism, Postmodernism states that nothing in the world is real; there is no distinction between fact and fiction, whilst the truth holds no meanings. Postmodernism reflects different world views and perspectives through partial representation of reality, learning and knowledge, and values.

Discussion

In classic cinema, modern film production is individual. While, the classic film consists of a system of conventions which in turn constitute the film productions tradition. Whereas, the modern film, is formed by the contributions of individual artists who offer elements derived from his personal vision of the expressive possibilities of film language. Postmodernism appropriates existing cultural images to reveal the artificiality, the lack of originality and character of the prevailing conventional to criticize forms of social representation and hegemonic ideologies. It is subverting notions whereby realistic representations are objective and transparent portraits of reality. Postmodern artists try to show that all meanings are socially and historically constructed. At the same time, brazenly steal images, demystify the modernist notion concerning the artistic genius, originality and autonomy of language, arguing that no one escapes language historically constructed intertextual network. The classic film based on respect for the conventions on the use of audiovisual resources (especially with regard to the point of view, visual composition, editing, the relationship between image and sound, and broad traditions), while modern film production exists because of experimental forms of directors with an unusual perspective, which might call his own idiolect film(Denzin 2003, p. 45).

Postmodern theorists oppose the phenomenon under analysis to culture and modern society. All authors agree on the crisis of modernity. They talk about the crisis (or death) of political and philosophical ideologies, capitalism or creeds vanguard of modern art. As David Lyon, "postmodernism primarily concerned with the exhaustion of modernity." Joseph Pico states that "in the eighties saw a theoretical debate about the postmodern condition, or, which is the same, the critique of modernity. " There is a widespread awareness of the exhaustion of reason. In art, you get to the ...