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This 5 page paper discusses the 1984 film "Amadeus" from a postmodern viewpoint. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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career. This paper discusses the film as a postmodern work. Definitions Before we begin, its useful to define the terms we want to discuss. These definitions are boiled down from
a number found on the Web; they are most useful in terms of discussing a film. "Solipsism" is a belief that one is the center of the universe and that
no one else really matters. "Decanonization" isnt in any dictionary but well take it to mean taking apart "canon"-"canon" being the popular view of something that has come to seem
like law. Democrats "tax and spend" is canon; its not necessarily true, but everyone accepts it as truth. "Hybridization" is bring two unlike things together to create a third; its
usually applied to growing plants. "Carnivalization" is a term thats also not in the dictionary; were going to assume it means creating a carnival-like atmosphere. "Fragmentation" means breaking something into
pieces; or perhaps even exaggerating parts of something rather than attempting to consider it as a whole. And finally the biggie: postmodernism. There are as many definitions for postmodernism
as there are people trying to define it. Mostly its considered the movement that came after modernism-in any field. In film, well go with this: "late-twentieth-century critical, literary, and performance
movement that reacts to modern art and literature; postmodernists suggest that truth is no longer verifiable, and that new art forms are best created by freely mixing previous styles and
themes" (Postmodernism). The Film When Amadeus was over and the credits rolled, the audience reaction was mixed, to say the least. Some people cheered while others sat silent, looking at
one another as if to say, What was that? Its probably safe to say that the former knew little or nothing about Mozart and the latter were purists who had
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