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Camerra, Giada (2020)

"We're lost without connection": Metamodernism, or exploring the afterlife of postmodernism

Master thesis | Media Studies (MA)

The postmodern era may not have reached its end, yet its very characteristics invite research into a number of issues that postmodernism has so far failed to address in a satisfactory way. In the last three decades, many have declared the death of postmodernism and demanded a theoretical system that could better represent the current sociocultural scene. In this post-postmodern fever, metamodernism offers itself as a cultural philosophy able to gather some important sociocultural and artistic tendencies of the last decades and illuminate the contingencies that shaped them by interpreting these tendencies as one single responsive wave to postmodern culture. This thesis will explore the legitimacy of the metamodern paradigm through the analysis of the tv show Maniac as the main case study.

metamodernism

postmodernism

tv show

case study

Author

Camerra, Giada

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Comparative Literature and Literary Theory

Supervisors

Kasten, Madeleine

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en