Carol, Carol! You haven't taken into account the flexibility of
postmodenism!
Boris Vidovic
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> Aihe: Re: Cubitt versus Walt Disney
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> << It is not merely a case of Baudrillard being off beam (theories of
> hyper-reality have very little relevance to a Koori film maker in Alice
> Springs or a Maori film-maker on the South Island), but that rural
> nostalgia
> and locatable historical truth forms the basis for films by directors such
> as Tamahori or Aboriginal film-maker Tracey Moffat. >>
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> I don't think this necessarily precludes any thought of Moffat's cinema as
> postmodern. Postmodernism is more than just Baudrillard. Isn't one of the
> major tenets of postmodernism a challenge to master narratives of history?
> Tracey Moffat does precisely that in Night Cries and she does it through
> pomo-identified tactics as quotation and sampling (in Night Cries, she
> recreates a shot from the 1955 film Jedda). To my Western eyes, Night
> Cries
> is just as pomo as Baudrillard's Disneylanbd.
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> Kevin John
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