An iconic staple of 1990s Hollywood cinema, director-screenwriter Amy Heckerling’s Clueless (1995) is a cult classic. This article examines the film’s postmodern visual dynamics, which parody hyperreal media culture and its connection to feminine teen consumerism amidst the image-saturated society of mid-’90s era Los Angeles.
To try to categorise G. K. Chesterton’s peculiar style is just as difficult as it is easy to spot. Many clues point to a definition: paradox, humour, virulent (callous) diatribes, militant buoyancy, and sometimes nightmarish visions. Modern commentators1 have observed that despite Chesterton’s reputation as an anti-modernist (fuelled by his own cla...
This contribution explores the impact of architect Oswald Mathias Ungers and his innovative urban concepts on contemporary city planning. Ungers, whose career began in the 1960s, played a pivotal role in bridging the gap between modernism and postmodernism while fostering a rich exchange of ideas between American and European architectural circles....
The public perception of buildings belonging to different architectural movements is a largely unexplored area from a quantitative scientific perspective. However, a better scientific understanding of perceptions of architectural movements is important for the formation of improved planning and design policies. In this work, we carry out an initial...
Though computers have come to rapidly dominate twenty-first century life, it appears that contemporary literature has not yet found a suitable mode of expression with which to meet the mimetic challenge of representing them. Looking back at our immediate literary inheritance in search of a workable model for some sort of stylistic mode that can mee...
Que peut vouloir dire postmoderne ? Et surtout, quels sont les enjeux qui ont traversé les usages de ce terme ? Ce travail soutient que, par-delà le mauvais objet sémantique qu’il constitue, en tant que signifiant flottant et mot-valise, le postmoderne représente un bon objet d’étude pour cerner certains des enjeux théoriques de la fin du vingtième...
This paper analyzes the blurred boundaries between human and artificial intelligence in Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. A postmodern theoretical and critical approach that employs Jean Baudrillard’s concepts of simulacra and hyperreality and Jaques Derrida’s deconstructive theory provides the conceptual framework for the...
This comparative study between the work Ninguém nada nunca, by Juan José Saer, and O escritor morre à beira do rio, by Lucas Lazzaretti, to analyze the construction of the narrator that occurs in both works. Thus, this article pursued the verification of how the narrators are riddled with a self-reflexive discourse, having as focus their action of ...
This thesis consists of a rereading of The Postmodern Sublime centered on collaged sequences in Peter Greenaway’s Prospero's Books (1991), The Pillow Book (1996) and A Life in Suitcases (2005). The selected films share a collaged imagery that deconstructs the visual screen space into smaller frames, an aesthetic tendency that is here traced and dis...
The flood of popular fantasy fiction instigated by the success of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy in the 1950s followed a relatively predictable pattern. Like Tolkien’s saga, most 20th century, and even early 21st century, fantasy fiction conforms to the schema outlined in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), and includes bo...
