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Post Modernism by Mind Map: Post Modernism

1. Film

1.1. American Psycho

1.1.1. Flattening of Affect: Technology, violence, drugs, and the media lead to detached, emotionless, inauthentic lives

1.1.2. An analytical viewpoint of our culture's desensitization to violence via a Wall Street professional and cold blooded killer

1.2. Donnie Darko

1.2.1. Time bending: Time travel provides another way to shape reality and play "what if" games with society

1.2.2. Explores topics such as time travel and a human’s free will

2. Architecture

2.1. Crystal Cathedral by Philip Johnson

2.1.1. Enormous California rendition of a classic cathedral in modern materials

2.2. Disney’s Dolphin & Swan Hotel by Michael Graves

2.2.1. Features statues of dolphins and swans wrapped around building

3. Music

3.1. Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass

3.1.1. Was considered to be a response to the technological revolution, highlighting trends such as mediated communication or not looking at someone while communicating

4. Art

4.1. Andy Warhol

4.1.1. Emphasizes ironic "low art", mass-production, and commodification of culture. Warhol is the "Pope of Pop Art"

4.1.2. 10 Marilyns, Campbell’s Soup Can

4.2. Barbara Kruger

4.2.1. Used conceptualism to question and confront viewers about their ideas

4.2.2. Your body is a Battleground, I Shop Therefore I Am

5. Television

5.1. Arrested Development

5.1.1. Faux TV: self-referential mockumentaries

5.1.2. Absurdly quirky, inept, dysfunctional, self-referential and recurring jokes

5.2. Real Housewives

5.2.1. Spectacle: competitive battle for viewers, caters to the basest and shallowest impulses to get attention

5.2.2. Middle-aged "Mean Girls" from your favorite city feud and flip tables, a trainwreck that knows it’s a trainwreck

6. Literature

6.1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

6.1.1. A dystopian examination of social conditioning, free will, and post-industrial alienation