"A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation."
A type of comedy that imitates or spoofs another work, event or person in a humorous way.
"A parody can be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture)."
"Professor Simon Dentith defines parody as 'any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice.'"
"Parody... is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text."
"Parody may be found in literature, music, theater, television and film, animation, and gaming."
"Parody seems to flourish on territory somewhere between pastiche ('a composition in another artist's manner, without satirical intent') and burlesque (which 'fools around with the material of high literature and adapts it to low ends')."
"A good parody is a fine amusement, capable of amusing and instructing the most sensible and polished minds; the burlesque is a miserable buffoonery which can only please the populace."
"A parody retains value only as a parody, as demonstrated by the Buster Keaton shorts that mocked [moralistic melodramas in the 1910s]."
"Parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation."
"A parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement."
"Professor Simon Dentith defines parody as 'any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice.'"
"Parody... is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text."
"Parody may be found in literature, music, theater, television and film, animation, and gaming."
"Parody seems to flourish on territory somewhere between pastiche ('a composition in another artist's manner, without satirical intent') and burlesque..."
"A good parody is a fine amusement, capable of amusing and instructing the most sensible and polished minds; the burlesque is a miserable buffoonery which can only please the populace."
"[A formula] retains value only as a parody..."
"A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject..."
"A parody can also be about... movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture)."
"Parody... provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice."
"Parody seems to flourish on territory somewhere between pastiche and burlesque..."