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Parody

A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation. Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc.), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s…

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Music

English term

Modernist and post-modernist parody

Reputation

Film parodies

Poetic parodies

Self-parody

Copyright issues and other legal issues

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Parody

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related to Further reading · 72
Parody → African American Expressive Culture, Afro-American Literary Criticism, An, Ancient, Ancient Greek Epigrams, Anthony Petroksky, Arts, Austin, Bakhtin, Bedford/St, Berkeley, BFI, Blanch, California Press, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Caponi, Caryl Emerson, Contact ZoneRose, Dan
related to References · 54
Parody → Anthony Petroksky, Antiheroes, Archived, Arts, Bedford/St, Composition, Contact Zone, Daniel, David Bartholomae, Dentith, Elices Agudo, English, Esti, From Ways, Grotesque, Historical, History, Idaho, Ilan, Irony
related to Historic examples · 53
Parody → Alessandro TassoniDon Quixote, Alexander Pope, Alexander PopeMemoirs, Alexander PopeNamby Pamby, Alice, Batrachomyomachia, Burning Pestle, Canterbury Tales, Cat, Century, CervantesBeware, Ein, Francis Beaumont, Geoffrey ChaucerMorgante, Greek, Henry CareyNorthanger Abbey, Iliad, Imitation, Jane AustenGulliver's Travels, John Arbuthnot
related to Film parodies · 32
Parody → Adolf Hitler, An, Bakhtin, Because, Blood, Broadway, Charlie Chaplin, Dr, Hollywood, Hyde, In, Jekyll, Laurel, Mr, Mud, Nanette, Nazis, No, Others, Pryde
related to Music · 24
Parody → Alonso Mudarra, Antonio, Bach, Baroque, Cabezón, Christmas Oratorio, Conversely, For, Fred Astaire, Girolamo Cavazzoni, In, Josquin, Lassus, More, Musical, Palestrina, Prez, Rock, Silk Stockings, The
related to Modernist and post-modernist parody · 23
Parody → Beard, China's, Eyebrows, For, His Mother Resigning His, Historian Christopher Rea, In, King, Post, Public Notice, Queue, Research, Russian, Since, Skipping Debts, Telegram, They, This, Thunder God, We
related to Reputation · 22
Parody → Allo, Amadis, Another, Cold Comfort Farm, Don Quixote, Father William, For, Gaula, Henry Fielding, In, Lewis Carroll's, Many, Mary Webb, Pamela, Samuel Richardson, Secret Army, Shamela, Sometimes, Stella Gibbons's, Victorian
related to Anime and manga · 21
Parody → American, Attack, Bo-bobo, Garterbelt, Girlfriends Who Really, Girls' Nozaki-kun, High School, Japanese, Junior High, Metal City, Osomatsu, Poni, Punch Man, Really, Really Love You, Saga, Spoof, Stocking, Team Epic, The
related to Origins · 21
Parody → According, Aristotle, Athens, Because, Dionysus, Drama Dionysus, God, Greek, Hegemon, Heracles, In, In Greek Old Comedy, Indeed, Poetics, Thasos, The, The Ancient Greeks, The Frogs, The Oxford English Dictionary, Thus
related to United Kingdom · 21
Parody → Copyright, Designs, Fair, Following, Government, Gowers Review, Hargreaves Review, However, In, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Office, May, October, Patents Act, Section, See, The, There, UK, UK IPO

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parodies work genre also satire film parodied isbn pastiche satirical example new music style one often may imitation copyright political

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Parodyis acreative work designed to imitate0.90text
Parodyis afine amusement0.90text
Parodyis aderivative of a specific work0.90text
Parodyis agame0.90text
Indicainstance ofLucian of Samosata created a parody of travel texts0.80text
The Odysseyinstance ofLucian of Samosata created a parody of travel texts0.80text
motets or cantatasinstance ofor an oratorio used extensive quotation from other vocal works0.80text
disasterinstance ofJim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker parodied well-established genres0.80text
warinstance ofJim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker parodied well-established genres0.80text
police movies with the Airplaneinstance ofJim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker parodied well-established genres0.80text
fair dealinginstance ofsome countries have ruled that parodies can fall under copyright limitations0.80text
or otherwise have fair dealing laws that include parody in their scope.United StatesParodies are protected under the fair use doctrine of United States copyright lawinstance ofsome countries have ruled that parodies can fall under copyright limitations0.80text

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