POST MODERNISM | PART 5|| INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS|

What is Postmodernism?

Postmodernism is a philosophical movement that impacted the arts and critical thinking throughout the latter half of the 20th century. Works in Postmodernism tend to have an attitude of rejection or irony toward typically-accepted narratives.

Postmodernism typically criticizes long-held beliefs regarding objective reality, value systems, human nature, and social progress, among other things. In cinema, Postmodernism brought with it darker kinds of films that viewed the world with a hint of detached irony. Postmodern movies aim to subvert highly-regarded expectations, which can be in the form of blending genres or messing with the narrative nature of a film.

For example, Pulp Fiction is a Postmodern film for the way it tells the story out of the ordinary, upending our expectations of film structure. Naturally, Postmodern cinema is more complex than having a non-linear story, and we’ll get into that in a moment.