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50 relations: Art, Auteur, Bible, Blue Velvet (film), Characterization, Convention (norm), Creative Evolution (book), Culture, Cyborg, Dystopia, Film, Film noir, Gender, Genre, Henri Bergson, Highbrow, History, Homage (arts), Intertextuality, Low culture, Mainstream, Media (communication), Media consumption, Meta, Meta-reference, Metanarrative, Modernism, Motif (narrative), Music, Narrative structure, Nonlinear narrative, Paradox, Pastiche, Popular culture, Postmodernism, Private investigator, Pulp Fiction, Punk rock, Quentin Tarantino, Race (human categorization), Raymond Chandler, Ridley Scott, Science fiction, Self, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Social class, Suspension of disbelief, The Guardian, Thelma & Louise, Time.
Art
Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative, conceptual idea, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.
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Auteur
An auteur ('author') is an artist, such as a film director, who applies a highly centralized and subjective control to many aspects of a collaborative creative work.
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Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.
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Blue Velvet (film)
Blue Velvet is a 1986 American neo-noir mystery film, written and directed by David Lynch.
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Characterization
Characterization or characterisation is the representation of persons (or other beings or creatures) in narrative and dramatic works of art.
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Convention (norm)
A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms, or criteria, often taking the form of a custom.
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Creative Evolution (book)
Creative Evolution (L'Évolution créatrice) is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson.
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Culture
Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies.
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Cyborg
A cyborg (short for "'''cyb'''ernetic '''org'''anism") is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts.
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Dystopia
A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- "bad" and τόπος "place"; alternatively, cacotopia,Cacotopia (from κακός kakos "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 19th century works kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening.
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Film
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.
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Film noir
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those which emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.
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Gender
Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity.
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Genre
Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.
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Henri Bergson
Henri-Louis Bergson (18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French-Jewish philosopher who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until World War II.
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Highbrow
Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, "highbrow" is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture.
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History
History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.
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Homage (arts)
Homage is a show or demonstration of respect or dedication to someone or something, sometimes by simple declaration but often by some more oblique reference, artistic or poetic.
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Intertextuality
Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text.
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Low culture
"Low culture" is a derogatory term for forms of popular culture that have mass appeal.
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Mainstream
Mainstream is current thought that is widespread.
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Media (communication)
Media are the collective communication outlets or tools used to store and deliver information or data.
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Media consumption
Media consumption or media diet is the sum of information and entertainment media taken in by an individual or group.
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Meta
Meta (from the Greek preposition and prefix meta- (μετά-) meaning "after", or "beyond") is a prefix used in English to indicate a concept which is an abstraction behind another concept, used to complete or add to the latter.
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Meta-reference
Meta-reference is a special type of self-reference that can occur in all media or medial artefacts, for instance literature, film, painting, TV series, comic strips, or video games.
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Metanarrative
A metanarrative (also meta-narrative and grand narrative; métarécit) in critical theory and particularly in postmodernism is a narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience, or knowledge, which offers a society legitimation through the anticipated completion of a (as yet unrealized) master idea.
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Modernism
Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Motif (narrative)
In narrative, a motif is any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story.
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Music
Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.
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Narrative structure
Narrative structure, a literary element, is generally described as the structural framework that underlies the order and manner in which a narrative is presented to a reader, listener, or viewer.
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Nonlinear narrative
Nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique, sometimes used in literature, film, hypertext websites and other narratives, where events are portrayed, for example, out of chronological order or in other ways where the narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern of the events featured, such as parallel distinctive plot lines, dream immersions or narrating another story inside the main plot-line.
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Paradox
A paradox is a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to an apparently self-contradictory or logically unacceptable conclusion.
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Pastiche
A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists.
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Popular culture
Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.
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Private investigator
A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent, is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services.
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Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, based on a story by Tarantino and Roger Avary,See, e.g., King (2002), pp.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
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Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American director, writer, and actor.
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Race (human categorization)
A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society.
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Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter.
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Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.
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Self
The self is an individual person as the object of his or her own reflective consciousness.
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Sistine Chapel ceiling
The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art.
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Social class
A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes.
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Suspension of disbelief
The term suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief has been defined as a willingness to suspend one's critical faculties and believe something surreal; sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Thelma & Louise
Thelma & Louise is a 1991 American road film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri.
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Time
Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernist_film
