There is no precise answer to post modernism; it is basically everything. It consists of a new spin on something old therefore nothing new is original. It is used to describe anything that looks culturally avant garde in an old school way. It is a short cut way to mass audiences. The dictionary definition for post modernism is " a style and concept in the arts characterized by a distrust of theories and ideologies and by the drawing of attention to conventions."
To look at genres in media studies, there is a theory that suggests that genre go in cycles:
1)Experimental------------------------> 2)Post-modern ---------------------------> 3)Cannon
~The experimental stage of genre attempts to establish trends.
~The cannon stage works within those trends to fix them into our cultural understanding.
~Post modernism look at those trends, pastiche them and creates something out of them. Thereby creating new experimental stage.
It can be argued that music video is a post-modern stage of evolution of cinema:
1)Short silent films------------------> 2)Full length talkie films----------------->3)music videos
Post modernism is all about idea of creating something new by referring to the old: created by copying. It can be humorous or terrifying and can be made by anyone which therefore means it is democratic. For example vine.
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