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Wokół definicji parodii filmowej
Around the definition of film parody

Author(s): Marek Hendrykowski
Subject(s): Media studies, Sociology of Culture, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: parody; film parody; genre; metagenre; poetics; style; comic effect; intertext; pars destruens; renewal; restoration; parody in contemporary cinema and new medias;

Summary/Abstract: The revision of key topics that are related to film parody. The crucial question of Marek Hendrykowski’s research sounds as follows: what is the semiotic mechanism that gives parodist effect expressed in the language of motion pictures? According to the author, conditio sine qua non of each parody are: incorrectness, caricatural exaggeration, comic effect, deconstruction, pars destruens and new meaning of old characteristic elements confronting the audience and its common memory. In the light of new reading and revised definition of this term, film parody is not a separate genre but rather meta-genre in its relations to many other film genres and individual screen performances being object of parody

  • Issue Year: 14/2014
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 29-38
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish