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    This is achieved by emphasizing the key ideas of flexivity‚ irony and parody. Here‚ flexivity can be described as the nortion of making the viewer aware that they are looking at something that is deconstructed which can take the form of irony‚ intertextuality or even parody. He gives examples of how post modernism has been used in real life with a close example referring to Kenneth Cole advert in the year 1992 which was

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    Canada ” to convey the theme of dehumanization of Aboriginal people in Canada‚ by depicting them as animals that are reliant on white people‚ while it may be a creative for king to express his arguments through‚ it’s an inappropriate to use humor‚ and parody depicting aboriginal people while knowing the treatment they have endured by European settlers‚ King ideas would have been presented more powerful than satire‚ because there would not be a need to depict the Aboriginal people as birds by their culture

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    Comedy in Don Quixote

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    the situations that he finds himself in during his adventures that make the reader laugh. We can define comedy as something that entertains the reader and that makes us want to laugh out loud and Cervantes succeeds in doing this through his use of parody and satire and burlesque‚ slapstick and simple self-reflexive comedy. To keep the reader entertained‚ he also uses the shock of the unexpected and creates intervals of lucidity interspersed with insanity in Don Quixote’s character. Cervantes places

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    Originality and Repetition in Contemporary Cinema It seems that the innovation of Contemporary Cinema has come to a stand still. Audiences are becoming more and more difficult to please‚ as films endure the comments of "seen that!" or "that’s been done before!" leaving filmmakers struggling to break away from the rigid structure of genre to produce somethings fresh and new for contemporary audiences. Hollywood‚ in particular‚ is being seen as producing films that are "commercial‚ aimed at a mass

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    Novels and Words: Notes

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    Negrito are a class of several ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia. Ati children‚ the Philippines.Their current populations include 12 Andamanese peoples of the Andaman Islands‚ six Semang peoples of Malaysia‚ the Mani of Thailand‚ and the Aeta‚ Agta‚ Ati‚ and 30 other peoples of the Philippines.Reports from British traders also speak of negrito people on Borneo (Sarawak). (Journal of the Malayan Branch Royal Asiatic Society‚ Vol. XXIX‚ part 1‚ 1956) Balangay is the first

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    Metadrama in Shakespeare

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    ‘Shakespeare ’s plays reflect not life but art. ’ Make use of this remark in writing an essay on Shakespeare ’s use of Metadrama. Shakespeare constantly plays with metadrama and the perception of his plays as theatre and not life with the complications inherent that in life we all play roles and perceive life in different ways. The play has recognition of its existence as theatre‚ which has relevance to a contemporary world that is increasingly aware of precisely how its values and practices

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    Shanti Om was a tremendously successful film both in India and abroad. Even in the United States‚ it was greatly popular while only opening in a select amount of theaters. Directed by Farah Khan and produced by Gauri khan‚ Om Shanti Om served as a parody on many of the quintessential stereotypes of Indian cinema. It was not a hostile film‚ as most of the stars being parodied actually appear in the film itself. It served to pay tribute and respect to the “Bollywood Greats” that laid the foundation

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    The lasting influences of the classical world on other cultures across time are shown by analyzing the links between Greek Drama in the time of Aristophanes‚ on Shakespeare‚ and on a modern comic text of my choice. Through the use of humour devices‚ theatre conventions and by developing a show of understanding of the serious messages‚ the links between the three texts are shown and analyzed. Gods and goddesses were superior in the time of Aristophanes. This is very surprising in Aristophanes’

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    Satire In Monty Python

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    Monty Python does an excellent job of mocking Medieval Literature‚ and criticizing it through various plot structures. We know that Monty Python is and satire and not a parody because parodies are not looking to destroy the artwork. The movie makes fun of Medieval Literature through themes such as knightly behavior‚ characteristics of a noble quest‚ and the role of women. These themes are satirized the most throughout the movie and this helps provide the audience with a basis of exaggeration in literature

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    An exploration of postmodernism through textual analysis of Arrested Development. This essay will consider the postmodernism within the television programme Arrested Development through postmodern theories‚ postmodernist techiniques and textual analysis. Through historical context‚ genre conventions‚ intertextuality and continuity; the essay will investigate the use of pastiche in modern satire. As popular situation comedies fulfil the generic conventions of using multiple cameras‚ linear narratives

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