Film List Postmodern 80's Movies 

You can see something like the blocked power in Hollywood movies since the 80s. The pathological, hysterical and mysterious are the motivations of modern cinema heroes. On the one hand the stories and types in the film seem to be quite classic again, on the other hand manipulation of time, coincidences and reversals stand in the foreground, so that the films achieve a completely different effect again. Whereas classical cinema had dealt with life and death, it is now a matter of survival, afterlife or parallel life. The preoccupation with memory, memory or trauma begins in the cinema of the 80s and seems to be something like coming to terms with the past. Not certain of our origins, experiencing the future as a return of the ever-same; they are completely new life stories in the cloak of the old genre. A fallacy would therefore be to believe that the 80s returned to the pure genre: Blade runner, for example, functions as a science fiction film with the story of a film noir - a furious genre mix. While the cinema of the 60s and 70s expressed great skepticism about the genre, the 80s even revived grubby pigeonholes such as Exploitation films and TV formats. Everything is enriched with the art world of comics, pop songs and pulp literature - and of course their own film history. Postmodern cinema itself is referential and constantly on the lookout for new quotations: The invention of the old in the new.