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Simulacra theory

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laura1999:
Pretty brief, but at keast you can touch on it if need be.

Baudrillard and Simulacra: French theorist Jean Baudrillard believed that the media constructs a copy (representation) of the real world and that copy comes the version of the ‘real world’ that audiences start to reference. After a while, this representation becomes the accepted version of events and people begin to think of this as the reality. The TV series underbelly painted the picture of the Melbourne Gangland war in the early 2000s. Ask a lot of people, they would say information about the criminals, however this info would be based off the information they saw depicting the criminals on TV, rather than real information of what they did in real life. Simulacra is what he calls a false reality that is made up of representations so convincing that they have replaced what was once real. E.g., Sovereign Hill.

lilyrosee:

--- Quote from: laura1999 on November 05, 2017, 10:37:54 am ---Not a problem!
For narrative we're studying two Alfred Hitchcock films, Rear Window and Vertigo. What about you?

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Thanks for the info - I will have a read over it and maybe discuss with my teacher!

Our class is doing 'V for Vendetta' and 'The Dark Knight' - not the films I typically watch but there is lots to talk about in regards to narrative analysis!

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