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  1. Dec 2, 2022 · 24 Hour Party People has often been described as postmodern, and most of the commentary upon release chimed with generic ideas of what was considered postmodern film at the time. The film’s deft humour, its mixture of formal ideas and approaches, its breaking of the fourth wall and its loose approach to linear and chronological time.

  2. 24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British biographical comedy drama film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom .

  3. The film largely follows the career of Tony Wilson who is head of Factory Records. The film was distributed by Pathe (UK) and United Artists (USA) and released in the UK on 5th April 2002. The film's most recogniseable Postmodern feature is lead character Tony Wilson's direct address to camera.

  4. Jan 28, 2003 · Coogans Wilson is portrayed here as a staunch postmodernist, to the point that he breaks the fourth wall in the first scene (he’s depicted hang gliding and subsequently crashing) to explain how he should be read symbolically as a harbinger of the Icarus tale to follow.

  5. Sep 21, 2014 · Wry, moving, not a little loony, a cinematic song to the city of Manchester as much as to song itself, and giving postmodernism a good name for 117 minutes, Party People leaves you...

  6. Rather than the readings of Leggott and Kirby, then, 24 Hour Party People can be seen as using the very same postmodern devices which informed the syndicalist spirit of Factory to undermine the sense of “icy authority” often attributed to its public aesthetic.

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  8. Apr 5, 2022 · “I’m being postmodern, before it’s fashionable,” Coogan’s Wilson speaks to the camera at one point, with his comment carrying a weight of irony in a film that is defined by self-referential humour and the convergence of several filmmaking styles.

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