Postmodernism Case Study
Postmodernism is a theory proposed by Jean Baudrillard who suggested that there are no more truths or fixed rules especially in media, he has proposed the fact that lots of our media products which often features a hightened reality, where for example a footage has been edited and refined to encode a meaning or hyperreality where there is trouble separating fiction from reality. A hightened reality makes it clear which is relaity which is not, but hyper reality cannot disitnguish which is real which is not A good example would be Borat Subsequent Movie Film (2020)which featured Sacha Baron Cohen playing the misogynist, racist, and direct Kazakh journalist , everything he says and do is based on the character's personality and a rough script but most of his interactions with other people are unscripted making Sacha improvise, the fact that the work is a fiction is then not entire true as it contains features of reality TV where people would show their real personalities rather than ...






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