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Origins
# According to Aristotle, Hegemon of Thasos was the inventor
of a kind of parody; by slightly altering the wording in wellknown poems he transformed the sublime into the ridiculous.
# In ancient Greek literature, a parodia was a narrative poem
imitating the style and prosody of epics "but treating light,
satirical or mock-heroic subjects .
# Roman writers explained parody as an imitation of one poet
by another for humorous effect.
# In French Neoclassical literature, parody was also a type of
poem where one work imitates the style of another for
humorous effect.
# Ancient Greece made satyr plays which parodied tragic plays.
People that were in the plays dressed up like satyrs which were
followers of most Olympian gods such as Dionysus and
Hermes.
A Parody is a work that mimics in an
absurd or ridiculous way the conventions
and style of another work - in order to
derive ridicule, ironic comment or
affectionate fun.
Parody
Critic, Simon Dentith
(2000: 9), defines
parody as “any
cultural practice which
provides a relatively
polemical allusive
imitation of another
cultural production or
practice.”
•
Parody (The New Critical Idiom). Routledge.
Parody can also be in
the Movies and Arts …
Marchel Duchamp's parody
of the Mona Lisa adds a
goatee and moustache.
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da
Vinci. Original painting from
circa 1503 – 1507.
Parody
Some genre theorists see parody as a natural
development in the life cycle of any genre.
Such theorists note that Western movies, for
example, after the classic stage defined the
conventions of the genre, underwent a parody
stage, in which those same conventions were
ridiculed and critiqued. Because audiences
had seen these classic Westerns, they had
expectations for new Westerns, and when
these expectations were subverted, the
audience laughed.
Parody
Most of the humour in
recent parodies of film
genres is based on our
familiarity with formula
plots, conventions and
characters. Films like
Scary Movie, Not Another
Teen Movie and Team
America: World Police
first build on our habitual
expectations of their
genre and then violate
them. Because each of
these films incorporates
the plot, characters &
conventions of dozens of
films, they can be helpful
in studying the genres
they parody.