What is postmodernism? This question has been asked with increasing frequency since the early 1970s, and has spread to every kind of cultural production. Post-modernism appears to be the new analysis paradigm, the new scientific prospective.

Are we in the post-modern time or are we still in the modern one? Are there some post-modernist authors? Can we talk about an ideology? Why does every new cultural production seem to be born in the post-modern time? All these questions should have a clear answer, or at least, an easy explanation. But it seems so hard to give an answer that could close the debate on this movement.

Excited from the actual discussion, we have decided to argue on the main points of the postmodern. If we can do it, we are going to explain the idea that plays on this concept, trying to answer to the questions we have just asked above. Not only is postmodernism in its totality, but even the relation that it could have with an important media like cinema. In fact also the movie industry is interested by the new evolution.

So in our research we focused our attention in particular on a movie, Kassovitz's "La haine" (in English "Hate"), trying to figure out a relation between it and postmodern thought. It is really an hard task that does not want to, and above all can not, close the debate, in which we are interested analyzing the most important "modern" or "postmodern" authors.

We have collected many articles and essays on postmodernity, movies and their implications with French cinema, every information regarding "La haine", while trying to follow the method that we have studied during our cultural studies' lessons. We began talking about postmodernity, its meaning, its questions and so on, relating it with its huge opposite or enemy, modernity, and we want to try finding out all the relations and the common points. It has been really interesting for the short view on the main postmodern authors, and in particular the historical search.

After a brief analysis of the most important theories on the French cinema, the last part of the project regards the presentation of Kassovitz's movie as a possible example of postmodern cinema.