You will prepare and submit a term paper on Postmodernism and Contemporary Films. Your paper should be a minimum of 2000 words in length. The contemporary films are highly sophisticated with many technologically operated machines. In other words, the filmmakers employ science fiction in creating the scene, for example, the travel to alien worlds using spacecraft.

The collage technique used in producing the visual arts also reveals how postmodernism has been invested in contemporary films. Using the collage technique, filmmakers combine many traditional styles of art to make a unified structure. For example, the Run Lola Run is a postmodern film with lots of animations that are united together in a sequential order using the collage technique. The producer of this film seems to have created it for novelty purposes. This is a key characteristic of postmodernism. Other than in films, postmodernism has also been applied in other areas of study, for example, music, architecture, arts and design and more. The film500 Days of Summer is a contemporary film that is relevant in describing the spread of popular culture through music. Postmodernism has brought about the development of popular cultures that are admired by many people, for example, the western culture, which has become dominant in most African countries (Nicolas 2002, p. 143).

As stated earlier, postmodernism is a philosophical discipline that suggests that truth does not exist and it is relative, but, not universal (Murray 1995, p. 57). Postmodernists believe that there is much to cover and that man should go further and discover what has not been discovered before. When one describes contemporary films as postmodern, he/she, therefore, means that the films destroy the basis for knowledge. In other words, the contemporary films have incorporated animations, science fiction and high artistic styles, which destroys the nature of truth. Most people, who have watched these films end up having corrupted knowledge according to the modernists, who believe that truth exists.