Despite their great differences, we discussed both Woody Allen’s Annie Hall (USA, 1977) and Nelson Pereira dos Santos’s How Tasty Was My Little
Frenchman (Brazil, 1973) as postmodern films.
Please write an essay in which you consider how each film is postmodern.
Produce a definition of postmodernism and how it operates in film, and support this definition with specific examples from each film.
What is the effect of the postmodern moves in each film?
How does each film and its particular postmodern gestures speak to the cultural and political context in which it was created?
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