homage;

Music videos can sometimes contain homage to other artists, especially when the music videos are made by amateurs.
Homage is a french term generally used in mordern English, it publicly shows respect. In terms of media, it is usually a reference to soemthing previously done for example the film Pulp fiction contains alot of homages.
It is quoted by Gary Groth that in Pulp Fiction 'Tarantinos characters inhabit a world where the entire landscape is composed of hollywood product. Tarantion is a cinematic kleptomaniac - he literally cant help himself.
the new wave cinema;
-frecnh blanket term
- late 1950's and 1960's
- linked by there self-conscienceness rejection of classical cinematic
- spirit of youth
- used methods of expressions
- seven minature tracking shots
- absurdity of human existence
- produced on a tight budget
- directors were forced to improvise with equipment
e.g. shopping trolley used for tracking.
- efforts to save film turned towards stylistic innovations.
- a fresh look to cinema with improvised dialogue, rapid changes of scene and shows that go beyond the common 360 axis.
- Jean Luc Godard was accused of having contempt for his audience as the techniques used to shock the audience out of submission and are bold and direct.
- effects now seem either true or commonplace.
- classic french cinema changed to the principles of strong narratives
- new wave filmakers make no attempts to suspend the viewers disbelief; in actuall fact they took steps towards constantly reminding the viewers that a film is simply a sequence of moving images, no matter how smart the use of light and shadows.

Post modernism;

Post modernism is a difficult term to define, it is intended as a rejection of conventional reality and conventional forms.
It deliberately rejects;
-boundaries between high and low forms of art.
- rigid genre distinctions.

Post modern text favours;
- pastiche a work of art that borrows or imitates from the work or style of other artists.
- parady ( a humorous imitation of something serious.)
- reflexility and self-consciousness.
- fragmentation and discontinuity (especially in narrative structure)
- intertextibility -one text may make use of a different text in order to aid a different layer of meaning (referencially) show intertextuality.
- irony and playfullness.
- Bricolage ( a french term for putting together different articles as in punkfashion) takes intertextuality a stage further. Bricolage suggestsd that this referentiallity has been used in such a way that a new meaning is constructed e.g. fusion of documentry game shows and soap oreas become a reality show such a big brother.