Trickle Down Postmodernism

I am taken in by Michael Newman's remarkable phrase (in Indie), "pop pomo" or "trickle down postmodernism," to articulate the ways in which the term is causally used to describe the pastiche and intertextuality of movies today. The idea being that most scholars and critics who use it don't really pay much attention to the history of the idea itself. The problem is two-fold: the term's not used very carefully, and its overusage further robs the concept of any significance.

There's also the clear irony: postmodernism began as an account of the weakening of historical consciousness in media culture. And now it seems to be undergoing its own "crisis of historicity."