Introducing Postmodernism

Postmodernism
- A movement of ideas arising from, but also critical of elements of modernism
- Aesthetic movement beginning after World War 2

Postmodern attitudes in a nutshell
- Decentralized, Media-centered society
- Loss of a stable, objective and original source of meaning
- Rejection of metanarratives as artificially imposed forms of order
- Breaking of traditional frames of genre; overthrowing category