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In this video I dive into what Metamodernism is and what it looks like in film, and chart how the movies have evolved since their modernist origins.
Additional Montage Editing by John Rising: @highenquiries
// Sources
[CC] To see which films I’m referencing, turn on “English (United States) - Movie Titles“ under captions. For regular subtitles select “English“
[1] Misunderstandings and clarifications | Notes on Metamodernism by Timotheus Vermeulen & Robin van den Akker:
[2] - The Metamodernist Manifesto
[3] Metamodernism: Oscillation Revisited
[4] How ’Everything Everywhere All at Once’ is a love letter to the internet
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// Chapters:
00:00 “They Don’t Make Them Like That Anymore“
01:00 What Do They Make Them Like Now?
04:46 The Metamodern Era
05:56 Modernism
12:40 Postmodernism
19:22 Metamodernism
27:44 Why Metamodernism?
// Films Referenced:
To see which films I’m referencing displayed in the video, turn on “English (United States) - Movie Titles“ under caption settings.
Aftersun (2022)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Avengers Endgame (2019)
As I was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
Badlands (1973)
Barton Fink (1991)
Blade Runner The Final Cut (1982)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Babylon (2022)
Bo Burnham Inside (2021)
Bones and All (2022)
Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
Eight and a Half (1963)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
F For Fake (1973)
Fargo (1996)
Glass Onion (2022)
High Noon (1952)
Joker (2019)
Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Meeting the Man James Baldwin in Paris (1970)
Mirror (1975)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
No Country For Old Men (2007)
Nope (2022)
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (2019)
Pearl (2021)
Pig (2021)
Persona (1966)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Rushmore (1998)
San Soleil (1983)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm - Take One (1968)
Synecdoche New York (2008)
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
The Fabelmans (2022)
The French Dispatch (2021)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Martian (2015)
The Matrix 4 Resurrections (2022)
The Menu (2022)
The Souvenir (2019)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Top Gun Maverick (2022)
Taxi Driver (1976)
White Noise (2022)
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