Modernism	Example	Postmodernism	Example
purpose	“Buy one get one free” window advert	play	The Cadburys Gorilla advert
design	My family	chance	Outnumbered and Mrs Brown Boys
hierarchy	Cinderella Story	anarchy	Inglorious Basterds
art object, finished word	Matilda	process, performance	Hanging On
Distance	Cold Play, Ed Sheeran concerts	participation	Promenade theatre performance
creation, totalization	Her	deconstruction	Ikea advert (breaking the fourth wall)
presence	Dear John	absence	Her – The girl wasn’t there
centering	Saving Private Ryan	Dispersal	Inglorious Basterds
genre, boundary	Saving Private Ryan	text, intertext	Inglorious Basterds
selection	The Notebook	combination	Daft Punk
depth	Inception	surface	Jackass
interpretation	Inception	against interpretation	Avatar
reading		misreading
narrative	American Beauty	anti-narrative
Grande histoire		petite histoire
genital, phallic		polymorphous
paranoia		schizophrenia
origin, cause		difference-difference
determinacy		indeterminacy