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Postmodernism and Pop Culture Religion, 2008.
This paper looks at the portrayal of Judeo-Christian beliefs in television cartoons.
1,608 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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The paper explores the influence of postmodernism on religion by exploring the Judeo-Christian religious beliefs present in television cartoons. The paper discusses how the perception of religion has changed through the postmodernist lens and also demonstrates how the cartoons themselves have been transformed from a form of childhood entertainment to one where serious adult issues are explored. The paper examines the cartoons "Veggie Tales", "The Simpsons" and "South Park".
Outline:
Introduction
Religion and Child-Targeted Cartoons
Religion and Adult-Targeted Cartoons
Remarks on Crossed Worlds
Summary
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"The influences of postmodernism within society are both diverse in nature and heavily distributed in content (Hull 57). Improvement in the ease of communications and the time taken to invest in same has led to a society in which its participants are highly decentralized, especially in respect to shared cultural commonalities such as ethnic, geographic, or religious traits. Also, while these traits still exist and persist, they are represented in non-traditional formats that demonstrate their influence on the community but are not authentic representations of the original traits themselves."
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"The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture" by Hal Foster, Ed., 1993.
A review of the essays on art, theory, sculpture, film, design, elitism v. popular culture and criticism.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"Editor Hal Foster states in the preface to his book, The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, that he brought together the essays for this work in an effort to present a dialogue on the meaning of postmodern culture as reflected in all the arts. It is the purpose of this paper to discuss postmodern culture, its theory and practice, its affect on design issues, and its influence on society and reaction from society.
Foster defines postmodernism as a "conflict of new and old modes--cultural and economic" (xi). The anti-aesthetic relates to an interdisciplinary cultural position on the present time. It is his aim to reflect various different views coming from different art forms in order to stimulate thinking about the diverse nature of postmodernism and the anti-aesthetic.
In theory, postmodernism refers to the moving away of the..."
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Postmodern Art in a Cyber-culture, 2002.
This paper discusses the basic ideas discussed in Anderson's (1990) "Reality Isn't What It Used to Be" that explores the significance of postmodernism and cyber-culture in multimedia art.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper explains that the perspective of limitless possibilities in production is linked with the possibility that a moral aesthetic is bound up with all cultural activity. The author remarks that 21st century artists are in a position to explore the possibilities that engage art and multimedia in evocative representations.
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Eastern Religion and U.S. Pop Culture, 2004.
A look at how Eastern Religion, Eastern mysticism, and magic influence the pop culture in America.
2,213 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 68.95
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This paper examines how ?Eastern religion?, also alluded to as ?Eastern mysticism? and ?mysticism? and the occult, along with magic and its many off-shoots, have had a considerable influence on American pop culture over the past few decades. It looks at how movies, books, and music all have been touched and enhanced by mysticism and its cousins.
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Introduction to Eastern Religion, Eastern Mysticism and Magic
The Beatles and Transcendental Meditation: Rock Superstars Dipping into an Ancient Mysticism to find Peace in a World Drenched in Chaos and Materialism
Martin Scorsese and Eastern Mysticism
Harry Potter?s Magic as a Mystical Force in Pop Culture
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"For many people who came of age and got into rock music in the 1960s and 1970s, and perhaps smoked some marijuana and even experimented with LSD, their interest in eastern religion and mysticism began with the Beatles? fascination with ? and association with ? the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It was John Lennon and George Harrison, in particular, who embraced the Maharishi in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in the town of Rishikesh, deep in the Himalayan foothills of northern India. The media clamored for photos of the Beatles hanging out and drinking in the good vibes of this holy man in white robes who preached peace through self-awareness and higher consciousness through meditation."
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Postmodernism, 2006.
This paper examines postmodernism and looks at how Jameson views this culture.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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In this article the writer notes that Jameson regards postmodernism as a cultural dominant whereby American culture is being perpetrated along with American military and domination across the globe. The writer discusses the definition and effects of postmodernism according to Jameson. Further, the writer points out that the central issue in which Jameson believes is the fate of culture generally and of the function of culture specifically as one social level or instance in the postmodern era.
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"One of the effects of global hegemony is that commodity production has subsumed aesthetic production. The outcome is that a degenerate culture has now been instituted as the official culture of Western society."
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Postmodernism of Resistance and Reaction, 2008.
A review of art works by Hans Hofmann, Damien Hirst and Sherrie Levine and how they portray postmodernism of resistance or postmodernism of reaction.
1,421 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper discusses the concept of postmodernism of resistance and postmodernism of reaction. It explores this concept and use examples of art to illustrate what is meant by this contrast. The paper describes and discusses art works by Hans Hofmann, Damien Hirst and Sherrie Levine and shows how these artists portrayed postmodernism of resistance or postmodernism of reaction.
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"Instead, I would argue that the art world needed to wait another ten years to see true examples of "postmodernism of resistance" - in the form of artwork such as Damien Hirst's, which embodied what has been termed a "striking analogue for the relationship between aesthetic and lived experience" (Hopkins 228). Here was something that was utterly different, in that it was not merely a reaction against the formalism of Modernism. Instead, it embodied a sweeping paradigm shift, relocating art within the paradigm of installation. In so doing, it resists Modernism to the extent that it even places new demands upon the viewer of art - for example, often she must move. Indeed, her movement may inform the meaning of the artwork - something scarcely contemplated in the formalism of Modernism. Moreover, rather than form following function, function becomes irrelevant."
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What is "Post" About Postmodernism?, 2001.
An in-depth examination of postmodernism and how it differs from the pre-modernism and modernist eras.
4,370 words (approx. 17.5 pages), 33 sources, APA, $ 115.95
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This paper thoroughly explains postmodernism and describes the philosophical concepts that lead up to this era. It defines that the ?post? in postmodern is the rejecting of enlightenment. The paper describes the nine characteristics of the postmodern period. The author states that postmodernism is the philosophy of reality.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Toward a Basic Definition of Postmodernism
Postmodernism?s Predecessors
What is ?Post? about Postmodernism?
Conclusion
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"In his book, Reality Isn't What It Used to Be, Walter Truett Anderson points out that our world has undergone a significant change. "In recent decades we have passed, like Alice slipping through the looking glass, into a new world," he says. This new world is the postmodern world. Anderson is not alone in his observation. Many have written books and articles in recent decades describing the phenomenon of postmodernism. What, though, is postmodernism and what are its characteristics? The purpose of this article is to examine postmodernism. In particular, it will attempt to identify the major characteristics of postmodernism and address the question, "What is 'post' about postmodernism?"
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Modernism and Postmodernism, 2003.
Discussing the originality of the postmodern movement, this essay compares and contrasts elements of Postmodernism and Modernism.
3,184 words (approx. 12.7 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 92.95
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This essay generally discusses the concept of Postmodernism. It moves through basic attributes of Postmodernism and assesses the movement's originality by comparing passages and quotes from both Postmodernist and Modernist authors, including James Joyce, ee cummings, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, William Carlos Williams, Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Frost, John Steinbeck, Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut.
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"Postmodernism as a literary movement began after World War II, following a long era of the Modernist period. Both Modernism and Postmodernism are typically characterized as the ?playful? eras because they played with, or discarded, the Victorian ideas of ?how art should be made, consumed, and what it should mean? (Klages). With the end of the conventional rules of literature, the Postmodernists prided themselves on being the celebrators of nothingness, innovative and spontaneously creative. While individual writers may have achieved these goals in their own works, as a whole, the movement was not an all-original upheaval. Postmodernism took not only its name, but many of its elements, from Modernism. In one way or another, the rejection of traditional concepts about point-of-view, the shift of emphasis from meaning to method, and the variations of disunity and unity in the work were all transmutations of Modernism."
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Power, Language, Culture and 'Me?, 2003.
Paper concerning the construction of identity in the postmodern world through power, language constructs and cultural forces.
1,999 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper explores the notion of identity through various viewpoints in contemporary modernity. This paper explores the way language, power and culture shapes the concept of the I by examining Foucaldian concepts, lingual construction and cultural studies.
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"With the impending future of global culture, the way in which the concept of the ?I? is constructed through an inter-connective culture becomes more obvious, since it affects the process through which the world consistently enriches itself through individual interaction with contemporary society. The concept of ?I? as an identity, fuelled by a wide range of philosophical, lingual and cultural discourses, can be seen as an interactive system inseparable with subjectivity, or, as Giddens proposes, a narrative which is able to build up a consistency of biographical continuity (1991; 75). In these terms is possible to view identity as a personal collective project, influenced by the light of circumstance, self-reflexivity and interaction. These elements, inherently produced through the social facets of power, language and culture, form the basis to the perception of ?me? as both socially as well as privately constructed. To comprehend this nature of identity as a construction of these facets, then, it is crucial to analyze the way in which power, language and culture interact and serve as the sociological truism in which the ?I? is understood, through social roles, discourses and disciplines exploring the perception of the self as a cultural product."
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Postmodernism and the Study of History, 2002.
Discusses how postmodernism affects the study of history.
4,000 words (approx. 16.0 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 108.95
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This paper looks at postmodernism in the study of history.The writer particularly balances arguments by Keith Jenkins and Richard J Evans while providing an examination of the effects and consequences of postmodernist thought on the study of history and historiography.
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"Postmodern historians have essentially come to view history as a study of images, thoughts, language and feelings about society and the past. In short that history is simply discourse and no particular discourse is in essence truer than another. According to postmodern ideas, what actually happened is no longer the historian's primary concern, in fact what happened can never really be known. Instead, what is important is what people thought happened."
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Bell Hooks and Postmodernism, 2002.
Discusses the concept of postmodernism, focuising on contributions made by feminist, Bell Hooks.
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This paper provides an analysis of postmodernism and a discussion of the contributions of postcolonial feminist Bell Hooks. Issues addressed in this paper include the politics of difference, racism, essentialism and references are made specifically to the writings of bell hooks.
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Feminist Postmodernism, 2006.
This paper explores the feminist debate about postmodernism in light of Joan Hoff's article.
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The paper discusses how in 1994, Joan Hoff published an article in the "Women's History Review," provocatively entitled "Gender as a Postmodern Category of Paralysis." The article lived up to its provocative title, as it was in fact a blistering attack on postmodernist thinkers and specifically on feminist postmodernists. Not surprisingly, the article provoked anger and controversy and gave rise to a heated debate, conducted in scholarly journals (which are usually devoted to somewhat cooler debates). While some academics, such as Caroline Ramazanoglu, agreed with Hoff, the paper points out that others were singularly under-impressed by Hoff's attack.
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Postmodernism, 2002.
This paper is a theoretical discussion about postmodernism as seen through the eyes of two philosophers, Manning Nash and Frederic Jameson.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper explores several discussions about modernity and its meaning. The author explains its impact on the world as we know it.
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Postmodernism and the Role of Identity, 2002.
Examines why the individual no longer exists in the postmodern era.
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This paper will address the difficulties inherent in defining and explaining an identity in relation to postmodern definitions. It is hoped that through using postmodern theory that the loose comprehension of an identity will be better clarified, as well as will provide a better understanding of the modern cognitions of "identity", both personal and broad in nature. This paper shall accomplish this goal in three steps. First, it shall define the term of "identity" as it will be used in this paper. Second, it shall apply this term to personal identities. Third, the definition of an identity will be applied to more broad social situations. All of these steps shall rely heavily on the postmodern theory as a foundation for references.
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Vietnam Veterans' Memorial and Postmodernism, 2003.
Rhetorical analysis of the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington D.C.
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Modernism is the search for a universality. The break from this search is creatively named postmodernism. Postmodernism is the belief that there is no universal constant and that everything is subject to context. The Vietnam Veterans' Memorial is an example of postmodern architecture. The wall is significant because it is one of the first memorials in this country to break from the modern view of architecture. By using postmodern ideological criticism of the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, this paper discovers that remembrance is a non-universal act, different for every person.
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"On April 19, 2000 the Oklahoma City Memorial opened to the public. The Memorial was built to remember the tragic events of five years earlier, the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah federal building in downtown Oklahoma City. The memorial was designed by Hans and Torrey Butzer. The Butzers were the winners of a competition pool of over 630 entries. The design for the memorial is based heavily on the postmodern nature of the Butzers? architectural upbringing. The University of Texas at Austin?s school of architecture is known for its postmodern views of form and function."
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