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In this video I delve into what metamodernism is and what it looks like in film, and map out how films have evolved since their modernist origins.

Additional editing by John Rising: https://www.tiktok.com/@highenquiries

// Sources
[CC] To see which movies I'm referring to, check /"English (United States) – Movie Titles/" under captions. For regular subtitles, select /"English/"

[1] Misunderstandings and Clarifications | Explanation of Metamodernism by Timotheus Vermeulen & Robin van den Akker: https://www.metamodernism.com/2015/06/03/misverstanden-and-clarifications/

[2] – The Metamodernist Manifesto http://www.metamodernism.org/

[3] Metamodernism: Oscillation Revisited https://medium.com/what-is-metamodern/metamodernism-oscillation-revisited-b1ae011abf3c

[4] How 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Is a Love Letter to Mothers… and the Internet https://mashable.com/article/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-daniels-interview-moms

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// Chapters:
00:00 /"They don't make them like this anymore/"
01:00 What do they look like now?
04:46 The Metamodern Era
05:56 Modernism
12:40 Postmodernism
19:22 Metamodernism
27:44 Why metamodernism?

// Referenced films:
To see which movies I'm referring to in the video, under the subtitle settings, enable the option "English (United States) – Movie Titles/".
Late Summer (2022)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Avengers Endgame (2019)
As I went along, I occasionally caught glimpses of beauty (2000)
Badlands (1973)
Barton Fink (1991)
Blade Runner The Final Cut (1982)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Babel (2022)
Bo Burnham Inside (2021)
Bones and all (2022)
Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
Eight and a Half (1963)
Everything Everywhere At Once (2022)
F for Fake (1973)
Fargo (1996)
Glass Onion (2022)
Afternoon (1952)
Joker (2019)
Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Meeting the man James Baldwin in Paris (1970)
Mirror (1975)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
No (2022)
Once upon a time there was a Hollywood movie (2019)
Pearl (2021)
Pig (2021)
Person (1966)
Psychological (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Rushmore (1998)
San Soleil (1983)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm – Take One (1968)
Synecdoche New York (2008)
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
The Fabelmans (2022)
The French Dispatch (2021)
The Long Farewell (1973)
The Martian (2015)
The Matrix 4 Resurrections (2022)
The menu (2022)
The Souvenir (2019)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Top Gun Maverick (2022)
Taxi Driver (1976)
White Noise (2022)

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