Post Modernism

-Post Modernism is the art and social political movement that aimed to reinvent.

Intertextuality - one media text referring to another
Parody - mocking something in an original way
Pastiche - An artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist or period
Bricolage - Mixing up and using a different genre and style
Homage - Imitation from a respectful standpoint

Lady Gaga - Paparazzi
Lady Gaga's Paparazzi video is about Gaga struggling with her quest for fame as the paparazzi keep following her and during the beginning of the video we see that her boyfriend has set her up as they kiss on the balcony and the the camera's are taking pictures of her. After we see that Lagy Gaga's fighting with her boyfriend to hide from the paparazzi and then her boyfriend pushes her of resulting in her laying in her own blood and the paparazzi taking snaps and referring to her career as over. The scene of her laying in a spiral black and white warp refers to Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' paying Homage and Pastiche.

As the music filly starts we see Lady Gaga getting out a black limousine with crutches and a metallic body suit referring to 'Metropolis' once again showing Homage and Intertextuality. As the song goes on we see her with her boyfriend on the sofa reading magazines and her costume is paying Homage to Minnie Mouse with the glasses and the mouse prints on her body suit. Then she finally takes her revenge on her boyfriend by discreetly poisoning his drink with white powder concealed in her ring. As he falls dead she calls 9-1-1 and declares that she just killed her boyfriend. The police come and arrest Gaga then walks to the police car as the paparazzi surround her once again as images flash by, with newspapers proclaiming her innocence we see that Gaga is back in the spotlight and has regained her fame. The the video ends with her taking mugshots in a tulip type dress. The video is a blurring of fiction and reality as it ends the same way it starts showing a cyclical narrative.

The video is mainly about Lady Gaga showing the media as to having no remorse or sympathy for her privacy and that they care about thier snap "got my flash on it's true, need that picture of you" and she also refers to not sure what it means but "this photo of us it don't have a price, ready for those flashing lights". Lady Gaga maybe saying that the boy she loves in her lyrics is fame and they crave her and she craves them as well but the papparazi can either destroy you make you.