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Rick Francis <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 10 Nov 1993 09:31:46 -0600
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On Wed, 10 Nov 1993, Harriet Margolis wrote:
 
> A welcome to all lurkers, of course, including Kathleen Ely, but to say
> that it's postmodern for films to be pastichial and self-referential is
> to manifest a need to see more silent films.
> [log in to unmask]
 
... or to suggest that postmodernism as an aesthetic began 80+ years ago?
I'm only partly serious, but I have long shared the convictions which lead
Bill Readings & others to start a journal or series called Postmodernism
Through the Ages.  (or did they just talk about it?  Not sure.)  Harriet,
are you familiar with Jameson's link of pastiche, nostalgia, and the
impossibility of parody with postmodernism?  You probably are, so I wonder
if you feel that there is no substantial difference in contemporary
pastiche and previous incarnations?  I'm not sure I know what you mean
about silent films -- which admittedly may manifest a need to see more of
them!
 
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