Postmodern Definitions and Judith Butler - Week 6

Normativity - keeping with the norm and what is believed as the correct standards of behavior in society.

Binary Opposition - for example Male/female or Straight/gay. One of the terms has power and control over the other. This creates an unfair, cultural bias.

Deconstruction - means to dismantle or to re-inscribe. It becomes unstable and undecidable. Seeks to problematise all notions of knowledge and undermines all well ordered structures.

Differance -  the difference and contrast between something or someone.

Reinscribe - to rename or make something new.

Cognitive dissonance -  an inconsistency of  thoughts, beliefs or attitudes.

Judith Butler - Questions and deconstructs gender roles and stereotypes created by our culture. Judith explains how gender norms are culturally formed by society. She believes that the world acts out these gender roles as a "cultural performance."  Our biology has been manipulated to a set of beliefs and standards of how females and males should act and behave. If anyone changes, re - creates or breaks down these ideologies it can become uncomfortable or even shocking for some people. For example Conchita Wurst. This was a man dressed as a women, with a beard. Who won the Eurovision Song Contest. This could have been confusing for people as they couldn't place Conchita in a particular box or category: male or female? Or just simply neither!

"No one is really a gender from the start. I know its controversial. But that's my claim."
- Judith Butler

Part 3 - Rough Blocking Continued

Pipeline 1 - Head Modeling 

Life Drawing - Lesson 6

30 mins - Coloured Pens

5 minute poses - Coloured Pens

20 mins - Chalk and Pen 

Character and Storytelling - Skyfall (2012)

Thumbnails - Environment Ideas

I have always found environment difficult to draw, as I cant always grasp the right perspectives. However I think my drawings improve from thumbnails 8 - 13.

Thumbnails 1-5

Thumbnails 6 -7 

Thumbnails 8 - 13

5 Reasons why Moulin Rouge is Postmodern

Pastiche - The film is basically a mash - up of various love songs. Its known to be the "Romantic Pastiche Jukebox." Featuring songs such as Your Song, One day i'll fly away, Lady Marmalade and the list goes on!

Appropriation - the film takes various songs and gives them a new meaning to tell its own story. For example they use "The Sound of Music" in the musical that the characters are creating called "Spectacular, Spectacular."

Magic Realism - Although parts of the film involve realism it does have some hyper - real and fantastical moments. For example the singing moon or green fairy. The film also uses music that was written about 70 years after the time period the film is actually set in.

Intertextuality - the film conveys popular culture by playing pop music from artists such as David Bowie and Madonna. The elephant scene between the two lovers involves a medley of popular love songs. The film is also a story within a story and musical within a musical. Both having the same narrative.

Parody - The film has a lot of comedic moments that imitate the musical genre. There is a "playfulness" and melodramatic quality through out the entirety of the film.

Postmodern Definitions - Week 5

The Canon - Cultural products accepted as superior, most meaningful, significant and better.

DWEMs - Dead White European Male, dominant in literature. Liked by critiques as they are DWEMs too.

Phallocentricism - A belief that centers around the male point of view and the dominance of the male sex.

Eurocentricism - Interpreting non-european societies through a European/Western perspective.

Postcolonialism - Controlling and placing a set of rules or values on a native society.

Multiculturalism - Supporting the diversity of multi - ethnic groups in society.

Feminism - Wanting equality between both women and men.