Megan Falkingham

Post-modern film is socially constructed, it shows a knowing sense of its own contexuality and a strong awareness of what is in the media at the time, drawing attention to it. In Japanese cinema particularly, the characters transform into something else more often than not. They are almost hybrids and hold a lack of identity. A lot of characters in postmodern film and animation are seen as uncanny. The uncanny refers to the opposite of what is familiar, it is a mixture of the familiar and unfamiliar that is experienced as being peculiar.

The style of playing around with the viewers expectations comes from Brechtian cinema. Brecht was a German poet and playwright who developed a politicized form of theater he called 'epic drama', a style that relies on the audience's reflective detachment rather than emotional involvement.