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ESSAY:  How can postmodern theory be applied to Life on Mars? Why is life on mars considered to be a postmodern show?  600-1000w) - The Postmodernism seen in Life on Mars can be seen as a reflection of modernism on Crime Dramas and especially TV. Life on Mars follows a narrative which has no link to religion, center and somehow history. Life on Mars only touches the historical elements of a stereotypical Crime Drama set in the 1970s. This ‘convention’ may for the more extreme postmodernists already judge Life on Mars as a not-postmodern show because of its elements is not linked to Postmodernism at all.  On the other hand, we might consider that Life on Mars is applied to human sciences. We experience towards the first episode the scientific idea of time travel to a different era. This is considered as a postmodern feature simply because of its idea of living the dream of travelling to another era, which in my opinion may be considered the greatest dream of human...

Modernism Postmodernism Adheres to Western hegemonic values Contests Western hegemonic values Focus on the writer Focus on the reader Focus on interiority Focus on exteriority Alienation Collective voices Unreliable narrator Ironic narrator Rejection of realism Ambivalence towards realism Literature is self-contained Literature is open and intertextual High-brow genres Mixing of high- and low-brow genres Rejection of literary conventions Parody of literary conventions Metafictional Metafictional Idiosyncratic language Simple language

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Postmodernism : " A  broad movement that developed in the mid- to late 20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism, marking a departure from modernism.   I s characterized by the self-conscious use of earlier styles and conventions, a mixing of different artistic styles and media, and a general distrust of theories." Compared to Modernism: Modernist  thinking is about the search of an abstract truth of life.  Postmodernist  thinkers believe that there is no universal truth, abstract or otherwise ! What is their focus? The common targets of  postmodernism  and critical theory include universalist notions of objective reality, morality, truth, human nature, reason, language, and social progress. Major Features / Themes of Postmodernism: Use of language, pastiche, intertextuality, metafiction, equality, tehnoculture and hyperreality, temporal distortion, paranoia, magic realism maximalism and minimalism. Famo...