does anyone know what's the effect of modernism era?

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i have some assignment abt it.

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Answer 1

I can tell you how modernism affected literature (and similar media like movies).

F. Scott Fitzgerald for example (one of the early moderns) revealed the character of "the Great Gatsby" in fragments and out of chronological order because that's the way the main character learned about him. Modernism strives to get rid of the fakey artifice of old-fashioned literature and to portray life the way we really experience things: with a limited perspective, with a biased perspective, in fragments, out of chronological order. It can seem weird at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's no weirder than a flashback or the way Ally McBeal sorta "hallucinates" to see things the way she perceives them.

The movie "The English Patient" is a good primer on modernist storytelling techniques. It starts at the end, then reveals the story is non-sequential fragments. Harold Pinter's "Betrayal" tells a story backwards to reflect the way we remember things--from the most recent events to the earliest ones.

One of the most famous examples of modernist filmmaking is Akira Kurosawa's classic "Rashomon." In it a tale is told three times, each time seeing the events through the perspective of a different character.

Anyway, I hope this was helpful.

Answer 2

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/7intro.html

http://www.artsmia.org/modernism/

http://www.wwnorton.com/naal/vol_D/welcome.htm