Wes Anderson - #Pomo or not #Pomo?

As we are going to be looking at the concepts of 'quirky sensibility' and 'new sincerity' through the work of Wes Anderson, this video (once again shared via 'FilmSchoolRejects') was very timely:

You can see more videos about Wes Anderson's films here, here and here.

We will be asking the question: Is Wes Anderson's work postmodern or does his work represent something that might be considered post-postmodernism, metamodernism or is it not postmodern at all?

Looking beyond Postmodernism

To reach the higher grades within your essay you need to present aspects of postmodernism as well as acknowledging the problems and criticism of it, in its entirety.

Places to start:

Criticism of postmodernism

Post-postmodernism

Metamodernism

New Sincerity

Articles to broaden your understanding:

What is metamodernism?

Quirky, Tone and Metamodernism

Beyond Postmodernism. Putting a Face on Metamodernism Without the Easy Clichés

The Death of Postmodernism And Beyond

Postmodernism is dead

Help with putting it all together:

Here is also a great site that will hugely help with your revision. It looks back to Modernism, to Postmodernism and forward to Post-postmodernism and compares then to each other.