The key aim of this thesis is to analyse Childish Gambino's music video for "This Is America" with a postmodern lens. The music video uses typical postmodern traits, such as pastiche, fragmentation, and the transgression of limits. By doing this, it is both an ironic representation of America and a sharp criticism of the status quo and America's values.
Table of contents
1. INTRODUCTION
2. A POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVE ON "THIS IS AMERICA"
2.1 Whatispostmodernism?
2.2 Compatibility of hip-hop and postmodernism
3 POSTMODERN FEATURES IN "THIS IS AMERICA"
3.1 Pastiche, Ironyand Intertextuality
3.1.1 The imagery
3.1.2 The dancing and the music
3.2 This Is Americaas postmodern "chaotic critique"
4 CONCLUSION