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    Jacques Tati was a French filmmaker‚ actor‚ and director in the twentieth century. He has released six feature films‚ the most successful of which is “Mon Oncle.” It is a guided tour of the effects and experiences of post modernism on a world which is not quite ready for it. Tati himself stars as Monsieur Hulot the protagonist‚ an adventurous and quirky role model for the sheltered and squelched Gerard. Gerard lives with his chic‚ yet traditionally robotic materialist parents on the Villa Arpel

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    Test 1. Trace the development of Modernism from its early beginnings through its subsequent permutations and developments up to‚ roughly‚ the 1940’s In order to trace the development of modernism throughout history we must first define “modernism”. Modernism is the rejection of the ideology or realism and makes use of the works of the past‚ through the application of reprise‚ incorporation‚ rewriting‚ recapitulation‚ revision and parody in new forms. Modernism also rejects the certainty of the

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    Implications for Researching the Organisation [a] Post Fordism? i) The 1980s: Flexible Specialisation and ’Disorganised Capitalism’: Piore and Sabel (1984) argue in The Second Industrial Divide[i] that new production systems must orientate towards multi-skilling and rapid re-skilling in order to accommodate the search for shifting and newly forming niche markets in a post mass production/mass consumer world. This implies economies of scope rather than economies of scale and a more creative

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    separate and define the positive and the negative in him. The novel is an innovation‚ beginning with the theme‚ treating another kind of love‚ a hidden love and an outcast. Humbert is the outcast type in the view of the society. "A common motif in modernism is that of an alienated individual--a dysfunctional individual trying in vain to make sense of a predominantly urban and fragmented society". (A.-ML) " The existentialist ’subject’ of modernity‚ is no longer a clearly defined individual‚ but a ’schizophrenic’

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    THE 1920’s: MODERNISM Main writers from this period Oscar Wilde Joseph Conrad W.B. Yeats Henry James Arnold Bennett John Galsworthy H.G. Wells Modernism first came to England at the end of 19th century in the work of Oscar Wilde‚ the early W.B. Yeats and Joseph Conrad and later‚ Henry James. But in the first decade and a half of the century there is a reaction against the avant-garde movement and there is a return to a more realistic and traditional kind of writing (Arnold Bennett

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    Basic differences between modernism and postmodernism Modernism:- The study of knowledge * World War I * Stylistic experimentation * Internal narratives; experiments in rendering consciousness * Fragmentation * As reaction to the 19th century novel and art (representational/figurative) * Critique of industrialization * Sociopolitical critique of the status quo * Psychoanalysis and an increasing interest in the internal world of

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    Tuesday 24th September 2013 5010GD ‘Isms’ as ways of seeing / thinking / reading 1. ‘isms’ is a shorthand for the seemingly complex array of ideas and theories that surround art and design as a socially and culturally located practice. With many of these ideas it is difficult to find a starting point‚ and a lot of these terms have superseded one another or are in conflict in some way. There is no real chronology of these ideas‚ in fact‚ a linear approach to these ideas is probably misleading.

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    Modernism is a time that is marked by a strong and intentional break with tradition. During this break it includes a strong reaction against established religious‚ political and social views. Modernist were more concerned about themselves with the subconscious and believed the world was created in the act of perceiving. Also meaning the world is what we say it is (Modernism PPT). The story I will be using is Barn Burning by William Faulkner. In this story I found two examples of modernism one was

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    Modernism‚ Modernisation and Modernity in Australia‚ 1919 –1939 Lighting the Way: New technologies‚ new materials‚ new cities. Modernism transformed life in Australia across five tumultuous decades from 1917 to 1967 ‚ it spans all aspect of Australian culture including art‚ design‚ architecture‚ advertising‚ film‚ photography and fashion. The process of modernisation has had a profound affect‚ changing our perspectives and the course of our everyday living. Change is inevitable‚ man-made

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    affected by the new perception held of the world and our place in it‚ and they tried to communicate fears and opinions through unique writing styles. Katherine Anne Porter’s early story "The Jilting of Grandma Weatherall" is a perfect illustration of modernism In this story‚ the literary technique of stream-of-consciousness is used. This narrative is in no way structured into a coherent‚ logical presentation of events. It frequently jumps back into time to the main characters’ past experiences‚ re-creating

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