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KILLBILL-POSTMODERNISM

PARODY

PASTICHENOSTALGIC

NOFIXEDMORALISTICPOINTOFVIEW

PARODYORPASTICHE?

Aparodyisaworkcreatedtomockormakefunofanoriginalwork.TheOxfordEnglishDicGonarydefinesparodyasanimitaGonturnedastoproducearidiculouseffect.

Parodyisoenusedincomedy,forexample,TheSimpsonsfeaturesparodiesofwell-knownfilms.

RussianTheoristMikhailBakhGnsuggestedthatagenrewillalwaysreachastagewhereitbeginstobeparodied.

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Inthe1960s/70sfilm-makersproducedavastamountofhorrorfilms.Forawhile,audiencestookthesefilmsseriously;theybelievedinthemandtheywerescaredbythem.Buttheyusedthesameformulas

repeatedlyandbecameclichd.Theaudiencestoppedtakingthehorrorfilmseriouslyandsofilm-makersstartedmakingparodiesofthem.TheparodiesusealltheconvenGonsofclassicbuttheyreallusedironically:thefilmmakesfunofthem.

MikhailBakhGnarguedthatparodyisanaturaldevelopmentinthelifecycleofanygenre,butparodiesarepar8cularlycharacteris8cofpostmodernculture.

TheoristJean-FranoisLyotard(1979)arguedthatsocietyhaslostfaithinmeta-narra8ves,grandbeliefsystemslikereligion,poli8cal

ideology,andevenculturalformslikearchitecturalstyleorcinema8cgenre.Thismeansthatpostmodernculturealwaysparodiestheconven8onsofearlierforms.

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PASTICHE:

TheOxfordEnglishDicGonarydefinespasGcheasamedleyofvarious

ingredients;ahotchpotch,farrago,jumble.ItisaworkmadefrommulGplesources.

Someone(ref?)Apas8checanbejocular,butunlikeaparodyitsusually

respecul.

PasGcheisprominentinpopularculture.TheStarWarsfilmsbyeorge

LucasarepasGchesof1930sscienceficGonserialslikeFlashordon.

QuenGnTaranGnoisapostmodernfilmmaker.Hisfilmsarepure

pasGches:theypaytributetopulpnovels,blaxploitaGonfilmsandkungFumovies.PulpFicGonisapasGcheof1950spulpficGontexts.KillBillis

apasGcheofKungFufilms.

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PasGcheisalsocharacterisGcofpostmodernculture.

TheMarxistacademicFredricJamesonhasexaminedthefunc8onsof

postmodernpas8che.Hedescribespas8cheastherandomcannibalisa8onof

allthestylesofthepast,theplayofstylis8callusion.Thisispartlytheresult

ofover-exposure.Intheageofmassmediathereisasensethatwehaveseen

toomanyfilms,watchedtoomuchTV,toomuchadver8sing.Weareover-

familiarwiththeformsofmassculture,whichmeansitsimpossibletobe

original.Wecanonlyrecycletheconven8onsofearliertextswhichJamesoncallsthecannibalisa8onofthepast.

Jamesondescribespas8cheasblankparody.Thismeansthatratherthan

beinghumorousorsa8rical,pas8chehasbecomeadeadlanguageunableto

sa8rizeinanyeffec8veway.Whereaspas8cheusedtobeahumorousdevice,ithasbecomedevoidoflaughter.

Johnson,M.