Postmodern films are flawless simulacra lacking cinema’s constitutive hallucination.

Evidence

A whole generation of films is emerging that will be to those one knew what the android is to man: marvelous artifacts, without weakness, pleasing simulacra that lack only the imaginary, and the hallucination inherent to cinema. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 162

Categorization

• XREF: The android metaphor for flawless-but-empty simulacra maps directly onto ‘the real as already-dead copy’ and onto Jameson’s pastiche diagnosis. — connects to: Technical perfection in postmodern film substitutes tactical values for meaning. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 165; Underground 1960s cinema deliberately courted technical failure and raw realness

Broader Connections

• Technical perfection in postmodern film substitutes tactical values for meaning. #corroborates (0.85) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 165
• Underground 1960s cinema deliberately courted technical failure and raw realness #contradicts (0.80)