Parody

A representational study of Levinson’s film, Wag the Dog and Saturday Night Live’s (SNL) parody of ‘Donald Trump’s Campaign’ highlights the perspective that shortcomings of both individuals and society are often revealed with through political acts. While both texts highlight the failures and corrupt behaviour of individuals in political acts to be prominent factors of shortcomings, we are able to understand the representation of such undertakings to influence judgment in society. It is the…

New World, a novel reflective of the technological innovations of the 1930’s, to represent the morally displaced actions in the World State. He satirically exemplifies how the government creates a false sense of security and stability through the parody of the French Revolution Tripartite mantra of ‘liberty, equality, fraternity’ within “community, identity, stability”. This contrast of values: civil freedom and complete subservience, compels us to evaluate the manipulative manner in which…

change occurring in gender roles during the time of its creation in the United States during the 1920s. This photo and the others of Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy influenced many artists including Yasumasa Morimura. Morimura went as far as to make a parody of the famous photo Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy. Morimura’s image was called Doublonnage (Marcel) and was created in 1988 but this is not the only photo that Yasumasa Morimura has taken that depicts or goes against gender roles within the…

In Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin criticizes the effects of capitalism on the working class. Through a different lens, one can view this as a contemporary critique of control freaks. He uses parody and exaggeration to strengthen his assertion. Chaplin uses parody to strengthen his assertion by making a mockery of how human beings are forced to fit around and within the institution in modern society particularly in relation to the “American Dream” and “the pursuit of happiness”. The theme of…

Mohammed Matthes, The key term I chose are appropriation, intertextuality, parody, social comparison and social Penetration theory. I have picked these terms because the words match the show I watched. The show I have chosen to watch is Black Mirror. I particularly watched the Waldo moment and White Christmas to write my response. I have chosen this T.V show because I have heard a lot of good things about it. Including from you, in class you mentioned that we should watch the Black Mirror. I…

Myers produced, wrote and starred as both the title character and Dr. Evil. New Line Cinema distributed the film series. With his advocacy for free love, his use of obscure impressions and his clothing style, the franchise parodies numerous films and characters. Among the parodies include James Bond, Derek Flint, Matt Helm, and Jason King. It uses elements of popular culture. The main plot of the book is to establish British spy's quest to bring his nemesis down. The men who played James…

this planet and gone native, and active member of a community I once admired from what seemed like an impossible distance”. On the other hand, “Weirdly Popular” discusses the success of Weird Al Yankovic in the past 38 years. Weird Al Yankovic does parodies of…

Key and Peele’s entertaining satirical parody— Obama’s Anger Translator-Meet Luther” ―develops the use of an aggressive speech to reach out a proposal toproposaltake the attention to the thewards their audience. Key and Peele illustrate through emotional appeal and contrasting characters Obama'scharacters to criticize,Obama’s careful, quiet nature. Key and Peele vastly set off the scene by demonstrating similarity in a comedic way that presents Obama’s viewpoint of not showing any expression…

Walt Disney Studios, is always known for suing people for remixing and using their videos and ideas. In this case, disney is suing Professor Faden's "A Fair(y) Use Tale" digital mashup. In his video he used clips of Disney movie, mashes them all up trying to clarify and define the meaning of copyright law in a amusing way . After observing this video Walt Disney decided to sue Professor Faden for infringing its copyright, which is iconic, because he was trying to explain fair use and got accused…

Television, media in general, is not merely a source of entertainment it also shapes and reflects our social views. More importantly, television blatantly shows the hierarchical structures that dominate our era (Kellner 8). It does this by the way characters are portrayed, the social position they have, and how they are represented. This system makes it quite obvious which are the dominant social group in any discourse while simultaneously undervaluing minorities. Consequently, the hegemonic and…