There are no pre-requisites for this module to be added

This module will allow you to study issues raised by postmodern literature, film and theory. The module will cover texts that deploy a range of postmodern experimental aesthetics to critique late stage, or consumer, capitalism and its impact on communities, individuals and emotions. The module will introduce you to key postmodern theories that will allow you to critically analyse the texts and you will study how postmodern experimental, graphic and provocative aesthetics are deployed to critique the commodification of humans, the structuring of inequality and the promotion of apathy. Some of the postmodern theories will include scepticism towards grand narratives, the society of the spectacle, simulation and posthumanism which will be deployed to analyse issues such as violence, construction of reality, sexuality, globalisation, consumer society, labour inequalities, neoimperialism and identity politics.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Critically reflect on the ways particular texts engage with the concept of the postmodernity.

LO2: Assess and debate theoretical ideas of the postmodern in relation to texts.

LO3: Analyse particular aesthetics strategies deployed by the texts to critique late stage capitalism.

LO4: Engage with a range of critical approaches to the genre.

LO5: Critically analyse particular texts relating to the postmodern and postmodernity.