Broadway musical of the same name. John Waters first went mainstream with the 1988 classic Hairspray and then defied fans’ opinion. They complained he had gone all lame and mainstream by daring to follow it up with a full-on musical comedy. The film is a parody of teen musicals (particularly Grease) and centers on a group of delinquents that refer to themselves as "drapes" and their interaction with the rest of the town and its other subculture‚ the "squares"‚ in 1950s Baltimore‚ Maryland. Cry-Baby is his
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part-Portuguese heritage of the family)‚ but the story remains essentially the same. Parodies The Glass Menagerie was parodied by Christopher Durang in a short one-act called For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls‚ in which Laura is replaced by a son named Lawrence‚ who instead of prizing a collection of glass figurines‚ here is obsessed with his collection of glass cocktail stirrers. In 2007‚ Ryan Landry did a parody called The Plexiglass Menagerie‚ He used the event of
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ENL 4230 Dr. Oliver Oroonoko- The Ultimate Slave Narrative: Women and Their Masters Aphra Behn presents us with an extensive parody in her novel Oroonoko: a complete slave narrative‚ depicting the enslavement of both man and woman. She uses historical fact as well as semi-anthropologically accurate setting to reveal the truth in her words. Historically speaking‚ women were slaves for centuries before the white man enslaved the black man. Women were bartered and sold into marriage‚ abuses
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Ang Postmodernong Panitikan Can be a time period‚ but it’s not very clear on when it takes place. Can’t say it started at a certain year. Events of history which create this period. Four Events. 1.) Mula industriyal na produksyon patungong Teknolohikal na Produksyon. (The industrial age.) Before the industrial age‚ there was a single technique‚ making a single thing coming from a person. Industrial age comes from the factories‚ assembly lines and the like. But if we go forward‚ to the factories
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The Rape of the Lock Many authors use mock-epic conventions when writing poetry. Mock-epic convention‚ by definition‚ is a type of satire that treats petty human occurrences as if they were extraordinary or heroic. Mock-epics often will be parodies of serious classical epics‚ but in a more humorous way. Alexander Pope’s mock-epic poem‚ The Rape of the Lock‚ is one of the best known examples of the use of characteristics of epic conventions and the use of gods and goddess from Greek mythology
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When comparing the Monkey’s paw and the Simpsons Parody video there are many similarities but there are many differences. When comparing these two videos one of the similarities in both The Monkey’s Paw and in The Simpsons video is the way the protagonists are written‚ they are both greedy in the beginning. When Mr. White first receives the monkey’s paw he uses it for money when he says “I wish for two hundred pounds” (Jacobs‚ 172). When Homer receives the paw while he is in the living room with
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There are many reasons as to why anyone would want to create a satire on this company. Their products are difficult to operate and many people own Apple goods just because of the name and not the service they provide. Also‚ some may want to make a parody about Apple because the products are way too expensive for what they are‚ which is why Clay decided to make his own version. In Clay’s video‚ he incorporated all four satirical techniques. However‚ the two that stuck out the most was incongruity
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Television and Cinema | Film Studies Television mocking it ’s big brother Cinema? Through parody is television mocking its big brother Cinema or is simply feeding the post-modern society? Artistic achievement has‚ in most societies‚ usually seen as one of the highest goals for its citizens with artists held in highest esteem in society. The Classical civilizations of Rome and Ancient Greece are rightly regarded as artistic highlights of world civilizations due to the unprecedented status given
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Otranto Prompt: Taking The Castle of Otranto as your example‚ outline the main conventions of the Gothic novel‚ and show how your knowledge of these conventions affects your reading of Northanger Abbey. Is Northanger Abbey most accurately described as parody of the Gothic genre‚ or is there a more complicated relationship going on? Answer: Gothic novels purport to revive old stories and beliefs‚ exploring personal and psychical encounters with the taboo (Williams‚ 2000). The genre‚ as typified by The
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Art of Characterization of Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews is Fielding’s first novel. It is a classical example of a literary work which started as a parody and ended as an excellent work of art in its own right. The work Fielding intended to parody was Richardson’s first novel Pamela‚ or Virtue Rewarded which had taken England by storm in the years following 1740 when it was first published. In his novel Fielding intended in the beginning to show how Lady Booby (aunt of "Lord B." in Richardson’s
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