Post on 03-Apr-2018
7/28/2019 Film Studies - Parody as Film Genre
1/16
PARODY AS FILM
GENRE
7/28/2019 Film Studies - Parody as Film Genre
2/16
DEFINITION
An intertextual, self-reflexive genre that
recontextualizes a target text by transforming
its elements, thus creating a NEW text; the
main aim of parody is to amuse
7/28/2019 Film Studies - Parody as Film Genre
3/16
Etymology
(Gr.)paroidia = counter-song
Para = AGAINST
= BESIDES
the parody both incorporates and mocks the
target
7/28/2019 Film Studies - Parody as Film Genre
4/16
Parody types
Type of target
general - general parody
specific - specific parody
Attitude towards target
critical parody - cannot be taken
seriously
reaffirming parody - less obvious, easily
confused with target genre
7/28/2019 Film Studies - Parody as Film Genre
5/16
Task one: Look at the following titles of film
parodies and try to identify the target using
linguistic clues.
7/28/2019 Film Studies - Parody as Film Genre
6/16
1905 The Little Train Robbery
1993 Robin Hood: Men in Tights
2001 Not Another Teen Movie
2001 Shriek if You Know What I Did Last
Friday the 13th
2008 Meet the Spartans
7/28/2019 Film Studies - Parody as Film Genre
7/16
Task two: Look at the following posters of film
parodies and try to identify the target using
linguistic and visual clues.
7/28/2019 Film Studies - Parody as Film Genre
8/16
The Silence
of the Hams
7/28/2019 Film Studies - Parody as Film Genre
9/16
7/28/2019 Film Studies - Parody as Film Genre
10/16
7/28/2019 Film Studies - Parody as Film Genre
11/16
7/28/2019 Film Studies - Parody as Film Genre
12/16
THE EFFECTIVE PARODY
- there is a constant interplay between
generating surprise and fulfilling viewers
expectations
by manipulating
LIGHTING, SHOTS, CAMERA MOVEMENT,
SOUND, and EDITING
by using and abusing conventions of thegenre
7/28/2019 Film Studies - Parody as Film Genre
13/16
TECHNIQUES
EXAGGERATION- takes an aspect of thesource text and renders it absurd throughexcessive emphasis- technical, narrative,
linguistic levelsREPETITION- technical, narrative, linguistic
levels
SELF-REFLEXIVITY- cinematic & linguistic
devices make the audience aware they arewatching a film
7/28/2019 Film Studies - Parody as Film Genre
14/16
LITERALIZATION- literal interpretation oflinguistic or technical elements
UNDERSTATEMENT/ OVERSTATEMENT- level ofacting- unusual actions of characters upset theviewers expectations
MISDIRECTION- the conventions of the sourcetext are used to create a set of expectations,which are reversed or transformed
7/28/2019 Film Studies - Parody as Film Genre
15/16
Young Frankenstein
1974,dir. Mel Brooks Baron Van Frankensteins entire family fortune, including
a castle, a secret library and the equipment used in hisstrange experiments is passed on to his great-grandson,Freddy Frankenstein, a famous scientist andneurosurgeon, who has cut off all contact with his
relatives, changed his name, as he wants to get rid of thestigma of his great-grandfathers reputation.
He has to go to Transylvania to inspect the estate, and heis guided by a funny servant, Igor, and an appealing lab-assistant, Inga.
As he comes across the secret library and the diarydescribing his great-grandfathers experiments, hebecomes obsessed with the idea of reanimating dead tissue,and he creates a scary creature with a huge body and anabnormal brain
7/28/2019 Film Studies - Parody as Film Genre
16/16
SCENE Exaggeration Repetition Self-reflexivity
Literalization Under-statement
Over-statement
Misdirection
1.
CLASS
2.
Station
3.
BOOK
CASE
4.BODY
5.
BRAIN