The idea of postmodernism, as I understand it, is to take all old conventions and turn them on its head. Take everything we know about gender conventions or any binary and flip it.
My contribution was to try to show the differences between the traditional telling and showing of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juilet" with a modern form with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Obviously, there are differences in dress, music, costuming, etc.
Mercucio in the 90's version is dressed in drag and acting flamboyant as the traditional is dressed in Shakespearean garb.
I'm still a little unclear of what postmodern theory is. Most say that it is a break away from modenism, but what is modernism?
Modernism turned realism on its head just as postmodern tries to turn modernism on its head.
Each generation of thought is trying to find what is truly real and trying to find ways to accurately document these ideas.
For one thing, Modernism wanted to change the ways that we see point of view. Let's use a first person narrative and maybe this narrator will be unreliable.
I've read some novels where that first person narrator was almost having a conversation with the reader over coffee by the fire. He would jump from subject to subject and then say, "wait, that's not right, let's start over." It was truly fasinating.
Postmodern wanted to show that there is no way to show what is real. What is reality anyway? What is truth? Is there truth?
We don't all see things the same way. My truth is different than your truth.
I also contributed the oreos. I figured that golden oreos would be a postmodern spin on the regular tradional oreos. This wasn't really explained.
Everyone seemed to just like coloring pictures of The Birth of Venus and eating oreos.
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