Film Parody -

Dan Harries

British Film Institute

2000

153 páginas

5h 6m

ISBN-10: 0851708021

Film Parody is the first major book on one of the most prolific and profitable, though under-discussed, modes of contemporary filmmaking. This book provides a lucid introduction to the films and a rigorous theoretical account of how parody itself operates on textual, pragmatic, and socio-cultural levels. Harries provocatively asserts that film parody is now so routinized by the major studios that it must be considered - in its own right - as a major mode of contemporary filmmaking.

Tracing a history of parodic cinema from early Laurel and Hardy spoofs to recent box-office hits such as the Austin Powers films, this book defines parody in relation to other related, though different modes of discourse such as irony and pastiche. Drawing from this history, and close analyses of films including Blazing Saddles, Airplane!, Young Frankenstein, Hot Shots!, Naked Gun 33 1/3, and Zelig, Film Parody lays out the formal characteristics of this under-theorized mode of filmmaking and examines the various strategies spectators bring to bear when watching parodies.

Academy Awards now go to film parodies, audiences make a star of the parodic actor "Leslie Neilson," and even the "band" Spinal Tap does a live reunion tour. In other words, parody has been entirely co-opted by a culture, and a culture industry, steeped in irony. For these reasons and more, Harries concludes that film parody is one of the most vibrant modes of contemporary filmmaking.

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4 (Muito bom)

Muito bão mesmo, altamente recomendável pra quem pretende estudar comédias cinematográficas - ou até mesmo televisivas, como é o meu caso.