Music Video: Postmodernism and music video

 Media Magazine Theory Drop - Postmodernism


1) How does the article define postmodernism in the first page of the article?

Postmodernism openly mocks the establishment. It pushes the idea of challenging conventional structures, representations, and expectations even farther.

2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay 'The Death of the Author'?

Barthes says a writer's opinions or interpretation are no more valid than anyone's elses. 

3) What is metatextuality?

when a text makes it clear that it is a text by doing so. It draws attention to the steps involved in its own construction. 

4) What is the repeated phrase on the cartoon on postmodernism on page 28?

Postmodernism is a cultural movement .

5) How does postmodernism link to media representations and reality?

Since media audiences have gotten more sophisticated over time, we are aware that some mediated representations only convey a partial picture, which might cause confusion about what is real and what is phoney. 

Music video CSPs and postmodernism

1) How does the music video for Ghost Town incorporate elements of postmodernism?

Through arthouse vs. pop music, intertextuality and hybrid, bricolage and pastiche, and the blending of high and low culture. Bricolage is evident throughout the road movie's plot.

2) What film genres are alluded to in the music video for Ghost Town? Which scenes in particular created these links?

Art house vs Pop music

3) How does Old Town Road use postmodern elements in its music video?

The factors of knowing self-reference quoting Billy Ray Cyrus You're with me now, so don't worry. Due to the historical connection between black communities and cowboys, the YeeHaw movement offers bricolage and pastiche. Our perception of reality is challenged by Reality Old Town Road.

4) How does the Old Town Road music video reflect technological convergence and modern digital culture? 

Appearances from celebrities.

5) What do YOU think Lil Nas X was trying to say about reality and American culture in the music video for Old Town Road?

With the help of black people, American culture has changed from how it was in the past. This is evident from Lil Nas X being shot at by a white man at the beginning of the video, to him singing with Billy Ray Cyrus later, to him line dancing with white folks, and to him hugging an elderly white woman at the conclusion.

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