Marie89, Jenkins

“We are going to empower a writer, somewhere in the world, who doesn’t have filmmaking resources at his or her disposal. This is the future of cinema” (549). This statement, along with the previous one that states that someday, moviemaking will become a part of everyone’s being, and that what is classified as art will change, sum up postmodernism to me. When everyone has the capability to express him or herself through the resources available to him or her, everyone will be creating artwork everyday, and movies will no longer be a part of an expertise but a normal way of expression.

Today, during one of my classes, I began to consider the ways in which technology has evolved. Every classroom is equipped with a small screen with buttons, enabling one to watch a film, display a computer screen, turn off the lights, turn up the sound, play music, etc. This is a drastic change as we used to reel in a large television to classrooms in order to watch any film. It is amazing the rate at which we are inculcating new types of entertainment and ways of using technology into our culture. Also, events such as Campus Movie Fest change the ways in which movies are viewed and appreciated. We now take more out of home-produced films than we ever have as we now have the freedom and technology available to express ourselves to anyone at anytime. These types of things become more personal and therefore, normal.

We are now more intimate with technology and the ways in which entertainment is viewed and appreciated. Every day we are coming closer as a culture to taking entertainment into our own hands, eliminating the professionalism that once used to be attached. Personal cell phones, computers, programs, etc. enable us to create artwork whenever we deem it essential. We no longer rely on other people or things to express ourselves, which is changing the ways in which our culture functions.