Broke back mountain and the death of the author - Perspectives

This lecture was based around the debate of who owns a piece of work that has been released to the public.

Publications to research

• Roland Barthes
• Cassette boy - youtuber - chops together politicians and news segments.

Definitions

• The Canon - cultural products generally accepted as ‘superior’ or more significant than other examples in the same field. 
• DWEMs - Dead White European Males - unfairly dominate the “high” arts - “male, pale and stale”
• Sweding - recreation of feature films on a low budget - obsurdety

• Authors and critics give fixed meanings and ideas
• Audience tells culture what it means by imprinting and do-creating the work.
• “The Birth of the Reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author”
• Opens popular participation and democratic determinations of cultural value. 
• Consumers recombine new materials created by author
• CGI reproductions of celebrities - death of Author of self. Clauses in Wills about not being able to use likeness after death.
• Role of individual rather than standardised or canonical consensus
• No strong distinction between high & low Arts
• Promotes parody, irony and playfulness
• Celebrates fragmentation’s
• Resists monolithic universals and goes for fractured and fluid

Moulin Rouge 

5 reasons that Moulin Rouge is Postmodern

• Flashes backwards and forwards
• Use of popular songs that are anachronistic to the story
• Framing - orchestra conductor opening and closing the film
• Predictable - empty spectacle 
• Parody, pastiche and kitsch all in one