Visual Culture - Hyper-reality Seminar

Essay Points To Disuses

What is the theory?

How and why the theory come about?

Did it change because of a change in society?

Examples of theory - all aspects of visual culture

Examples of theory - film, filmmakers

Historical context

Key theorists

Personal views of theory

How is theory relevant today?

Hyper-reality

Simulation

Phantasmagoria

Jean Baudrillard

Banksy - Dismaland

Tell Difference between simulation of reality and real life

Simulacra and Simulation - 1981 - Baudrillard

Hyper reality of Disneyland using symbols and signifiers

Real life being replaced    Escapism from reality using media, tv etc.

Adverts, tv, photography - effects on people

What we see bears no relation to reality but what we see is our reality

Society of production has become society of consumption

Define ourselves by what we see

John Storry

The Matrix

The Trueman Show

Celebrity Culture

Umberto Eco

Peter Sparrow

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