perspectives 4 - Scream

meanings

• avant - garde - a new idea and method in art, music or literature  
• nostalgia - a feeling of joy or happiness for something that brings a person back to their childhood
• appropriation -using a pre-existing piece of work like an object or image and making it your own with no chages to it what so ever 
• pastiche - an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work or period
• parody - something that is making fun a cliche or genre
• irony - when the oppisite of something happens it is usually humorous, typical or emphatic 
• ideology - a system of ideas that forms an economic theory and policy 
• genre - different catagories of style and tone

Sherrie Levine is a photographer and conceptual artist who is known for taking a male artist and re-taking the picture with the same woman and some wooden background. the purpose for this photo was to discuss the notion of authenticity and originality.

5 reasons why is Scream postmodern 

1. the film is a horror genre that has many subdivision, they discuss the different aspects of a slasher film from psychological horror and gothic horror cinema. 
2. its iconic for although they make fun of the horror trope in classic slasher films and then do the same thing afterwards, for example when Sidney says that it is insulting when a female in a slasher film runs upstairs, she herself runs upstairs from the killer
3. the film is a parody of a horror film, the characters poke fun at at the problems and rules that horror films have but making it funny when the things that they are poking fun at happens to them 
4.  the film is pastiche by using other slasher film styles like Friday the 13th and Halloween it becomes its a fun film reminding the viewers what makes these films classics 
5. the film is avant garde for when it first come out in cinemas slasher film were made too much and became boring, but when scream came out it felt like a new idea by taking the slasher genre and making fun of it.