he recent rise of a new type of independent ilm reveals a cultural paradigm shit from postmodernism to something beyond. his paper attempts to show that this shit is a return to the grand narratives of the uninished project of modernity which, according to Jürgen Habermas, was interrupted by WWII and the prevalence of liberalism and capitalism. his shit is nourished by neoromantic ideas from the American transcendentalist movement.