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So after watching the "horror" version of the trailer for Pretty Woman I found a whole bunch of vids that were made using other p...

One of Will Ferrell's most well known characters during his time on Saturday Night Live was Alex Trebek. As Trebek, he hosted a parody v...

I really enjoyed the reading on Postmodernism because I found that it was something that our generation can easily relate to. There are so m...

In this postmodern society, we have adopted the idea that “the body is imagined to be easily transformed” (Sturken & Cartwright 326). T...

According to Sturken and Cartwright, "A hyperreal text is one that seems to be saying, "this is real, take note of that!" Th...

By discussing Cindy Sherman's photography, Sturken & Cartwright mention that "nostalgic references to other historical periods ...

Okay, so I finished my other blog post and put on this Xeno and Oaklander CD I bought today, and HOLY CRAP is this not total pastiche soundi...

Recent discussions about the state of post-modernism have struggled to determine its relevance today. While several theorists and historians...

One work (of course from me, a musical one) that I was reminded of while reading the Sturken and Cartwright chapter was Wendy/Walter Carlos...

Sturken and Cartwright claim that "postmodern styles have emerged...through a redefinition of authorship and the relationship of produc...

In this chapter, Sturken & Cartwright refer to the "issues of identity and the postmodern body," (p.326). They claim that the ...

Sturken and Cartwright discuss the postmodern body in Chapter 7, and how it is one that can be easily transformed. The post modern body ha...

Sturken and Cartwright mention photographer Cindy Sherman as an example of reflexivity--a style in modernism which is the "self-awarene...

I just remembered this website that has a bunch of 30-second parodies of well known films..re-enacted by bunnies. They are pretty funny. htt...

While reading Sturken and Cartwright's discussion of parodies in chapter 8, I immediately thought of Not Another Teen Movie , a 2001 p...

I am a big fan of the artist Nikki S. Lee, who's profiled in Chapter 7 (pp. 324-325). She's an NYU alumn and, by the way, does NOT i...

Sturken and Cartwright explain that the goal of Postmodernism is to look at the “values that underlie all systems of thought and thus to ...

The chapter "Postmodernism, Indie Media, and Popular Culture" shows that there is no definition for postmodernism that can be s...

What struck me the most out of Sturken and Cartwright's chapter entitled, Modernity: Spectatorship, Power, and Knowledge , was the conc...

Nowadays, the “other” is still highly represented in the media, specifically in advertisements where “ads attach notions of exoticism to the...