differently. In America‚ it marked a return to hard-edged composition and representational art as a response by artists using impersonal‚ mundane reality‚ irony and parody to defuse the personal symbolism and "painterly looseness" of Abstract Expressionism. By contrast‚ the origin in post-War Britain‚ while employing irony and parody‚ was more academic with a focus on the dynamic and paradoxical imagery of American popular culture as powerful‚ manipulative symbolic devices that were affecting whole
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mock-heroic or heroi-comical terms are applied to literary works in which the epic or heroic tradition is ridiculed. Characteristics of “The Rape of the Lock” as a mock-epic poem: 1. Parody: Hazlitt has called the poem ‘the perfection of the mock-epic’. It belongs to the literary type‚ called burlesque or parody.‚ on a large scale. In it‚ not a single poem‚ but the whole type or style of literature is parodied; the language and thought‚ proper to a serious theme are reproduced in describing something
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no thanks) to social media‚ brand managers have lost the power to control the perception of their products through carefully orchestrated advertising campaigns. These days‚ consumers are in command. With an angry Tweet‚ a happy Facebook post‚ or a parody video on YouTube‚ they can take charge of public discussions about the brands they use. And while marketers have tried to take part‚ they’ve had to face the fact that social media platforms are primarily meant for conversations among consumers‚ not
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My first experience watching a Coen brothers’ movie changed how I viewed film. Upon my first viewing of The Big Lebowski‚ I realized it was much more than a film about a middle aged stoner who lost his rug. I was able to identify different characteristics from a wide range of genres represented in classic films I had seen over the years. After numerous viewings‚ I could piece together a message the Coen brothers were trying to communicate to their audience through the film’s narrator: “Sometimes
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When Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote‚ “Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted‚” he expressed a romantic ideal ever-present in nineteenth century poetry: the ideal that naive romantic love should be valued above all else. This ideal has persisted to the present‚ ‚ presenting itself in innumerable pop songs and romantic comedies; working itself so deeply into the psychology of Western culture that those unaffected may consider it a cult. In the nineteenth century‚ this romanticising
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Historiographic Metafiction Parody and the Intertextuality of History LINDA HUTCHEON Il y a plus affaire à interpreter les interpretations qu’a interpreter les choses‚ et plus de livres sur les livres que sur autre sujet: nous ne faisons que nous entregloser. -Montaigne The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title‚ the first lines‚ and the last full-stop‚ beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form‚ it is caught up in a system of references to other books‚ other
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Salesman? 41 2.2.2.1. The Origins 41 2.2.2.2. Parody as a Genre 41 2.2.2.3. Narrative Structure 44 2.2.2.4. Joe‚ Horác‚ Winnifred‚ Tornado Lou and Other Stereotypes 45 2.2.2.5. The Style 51 2.2.2.6. Critique of Capitalism 55 2.2.2.7. Critics and Awards 59 3. Other European Parody Westerns – Manitou’s Shoe 61 CONCLUSION 67 APPENDIX 69 PRIMARY SOURCES 70 SECONDARY
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Society‚” and to postmodernism itself. Through critical analysis of textual details‚ I will illustrate how various elements in the film complement and at times refute both the text and postmodernism as a whole. These elements include: pastiche‚ parody‚ citationality‚ double coding‚ irony‚ nostalgia mode‚ the role of multinational and corporate capitalism‚ and some paradoxical incongruities within the film concerning modernist and postmodernist paradigms. For the purpose of this essay‚ Moulin
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A parody movie that is also badass? Tucker and Dale VS. Evil is a kick-ass movie of two friends taking on something they never would have expected. This movie starts out with some college students driving out to the middle of nowhere in the woods to camp for the weekend. On their way out there they encounter Tucker and Dale at a gas station. The college kids think that they are creepy looking hillbillies and drive away from the gas station and off to the camping spot. Tucker and Dale are on their
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the serious study of mass mediated culture are also strongly urged to consult the accompanying bibliography of books on popular culture‚ and use that old-fashioned‚ non-virtual space known as the library. On most pages in this site you will find parodies of advertisements. Some are aimed at the specific advertising practice represented‚ and some at questionable practices of the corporation sponsoring the ad. And all are aimed to remind us that a
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