Key Words and definitions

-Faux TV

-Pastiche
An artistic work in a style that imitates/ pays homage to another work, artist, or period.

-Hyperreal 
An inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality. i.e. Disney Land

-Parody 
An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

-Cyberspace
The notional environment in which communication over computer networks occurs.

-Metanarrative

-Surrealism
A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

-Bricolage 
A work that is made from combining existing materials, independent of their original purpose.

-Intertextuality 
Making reference to a pre-exsisting text

-Simulacra
Something fake pretending to be real. i.e. Disney Land

-Faction

-Kitsch
Art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way. i.e. the barbie doll

-Spectacle

-Dystopia 
An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.