Introduction: On April 23, 2016, the visual album Lemonade was released as an hour long special on HBO. For that hour, the world sat transfixed as they saw a film that was quite unlike anything they had come to expect from the artist, Beyonce. Many people struggled to characterize the fim in modern terms. Some pointed to the iconography in the film such as the many signifiers of the struggles of the black community. While others focused on the archetype of the film. An argument was made for the mythic qualities of the film. The argument proposed that the film was essentially an affirmation of pre-existing beliefs due to the way it repeated a popular theme. It depicted the journey of a woman who gets cheated on, goes through a wide range of
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One that found support in many genres and tellings of both past and present to tell a story. The takeaway from this is how much this relates to the remix culture that is depicted in postmodernism. The reason why there is pastiche and by contrast parody is because there’s this sense that everything has already been done. There is nothing “new”. If anything the world is just recycling old ideas and putting a different take on it. This is seen in great detail above in Lemonade. All that this film has done is gather a number of different genres and texts and add a different take on it. Essentially, the film is based off original ideas that come from outside the film itself. Taken together it gives that unique narration that wasn’t there before they were all mashed …show more content…
Here Beyonce is seen on a stage on her knees which embodies this feeling of vulnerability. She stages her own suicide and that is what transitions into the next stage, denial. Here Beyonce is seen floating in water while taking on a number of supernatural forms. This is an example of postmodernist emphasis on mysticism and spiritual exploration which is repeated numerous times in Lemonade. After this, Beyonce is seen emerging from a huge set of doors while the water we can assume she was in, just disperses around her. Then she is seen in a yellow sundress holding onto a bat which she uses to engage in the vandalization of cars, and the camera which was recording her. This is a great example of hyperreality. The simulation of reality was temporarily destroyed when Beyonce smashed the camera which was recording
One that found support in many genres and tellings of both past and present to tell a story. The takeaway from this is how much this relates to the remix culture that is depicted in postmodernism. The reason why there is pastiche and by contrast parody is because there’s this sense that everything has already been done. There is nothing “new”. If anything the world is just recycling old ideas and putting a different take on it. This is seen in great detail above in Lemonade. All that this film has done is gather a number of different genres and texts and add a different take on it. Essentially, the film is based off original ideas that come from outside the film itself. Taken together it gives that unique narration that wasn’t there before they were all mashed …show more content…
Here Beyonce is seen on a stage on her knees which embodies this feeling of vulnerability. She stages her own suicide and that is what transitions into the next stage, denial. Here Beyonce is seen floating in water while taking on a number of supernatural forms. This is an example of postmodernist emphasis on mysticism and spiritual exploration which is repeated numerous times in Lemonade. After this, Beyonce is seen emerging from a huge set of doors while the water we can assume she was in, just disperses around her. Then she is seen in a yellow sundress holding onto a bat which she uses to engage in the vandalization of cars, and the camera which was recording her. This is a great example of hyperreality. The simulation of reality was temporarily destroyed when Beyonce smashed the camera which was recording