Technical perfection in postmodern film substitutes tactical values for meaning.

Evidence

Here, technical perfection is an effect of the model: it is one of the referential tactical values. In the absence of real syntax of meaning, one has nothing but the tactical values of a group in which are admirably combined, for example, the CIA as a mythological machine that does everything, Robert Redford as polyvalent star, social relations as a necessary reference to history, technical virtuosity as a necessary reference to cinema. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 165

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘tactical values’ as the replacement for lost syntax of meaning — a precise piece of Baudrillard vocabulary.
• XREF: connects to: Postmodern films are flawless simulacra lacking cinema’s constitutive hallucination. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 162; Perfect technical reproduction makes any intended meaning in film sound false — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 164; Postmodern montage delegitimizes conceptual transcendence in favor of immanence — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 437 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Perfect technical reproduction makes any intended meaning in film sound false #corroborates (0.85) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 164
• Postmodernist texts resist thematic meaning and are flawed when interpretation succeeds #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 243
• Postmodern montage delegitimizes conceptual transcendence in favor of immanence #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 437
• Postmodern art operates within media systems rather than unifying them into transcendent wholes #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 381