Origins Of Parody

The video A Fair(y) Use Tale Trial by Professor Eric Faden was created with the purpose of educating it’s viewers about Fair Use principles. It creates a transformative work through different Disney movie clips each only a few seconds long strung together in order to explain Fair Use and Copyright in an entertaining and original way. The video is noncommercial, and no profit was gained by Professor Faden in producing the work or after it was displayed.

To put this in a language that you can understand, advertisement ads will use humor as a distraction from their product that may contain data that is inaccurate, or that maybe disputable. Advertiser uses humor in hopes that it will turn the audience attention from the inaccuracy of the data. While researcher has shown that humor is a proven tactic in the persuasion process, it has also proven that it does not affect persuasion directly (Cline & Kellaris, 1999).

The comedic technique, Satire, is used in humour to criticise and trigger thoughts about today’s society, groups and issues. ‘Knights and Dames’ created by Satirist, Leahy, is a satirical cartoon that attempts to address issues and provoke thoughts about today’s political issues such as individuality and national identity. Hyperbole, situational irony and caricature are three of the satirical techniques used in this cartoon. This essay will aim to analyse the language features and satirical cartoons.

Brand parody strategy is the act of using the certain physical trait from media, such as TV series, films, important events in society, book, in a humorous way. There are plenty of parodies in advertising nowadays. Unfortunately, there are limited numbers of researches studying further about a

television advertisement companies, main intention is to captivate the audience in other to purchase their product that they are portraying. In this essay, I will be analyzing these two ads, “Whale” (Old Spice) and “Susan Glenn” (Axe). These ads are formulated to get their products noticed, along with sparking the interest of the other goods they may offer. Countless methods are used to convince the audience that’s being targeted to buy the product. Therefore, these ads are similar in its ability to gain the attention of their audiences by appealing to pathos. Through this essay I will analyze the rhetorical effects that help bring these commercials to life.

(TS) The advertisement for Bose Headphones displaying the man and the waterfall uses humor and dramatic irony to make readers remember the ad and the headphones they are selling. (C1) Humor is portrayed in this ad in a number of different ways. (E1) This ad uses humor because the man rowing the boat is about to fall to his death down a waterfall and doesn’t even realize it. The fact that the man is so oblivious and the exaggeration of the power of the headphones is what brings up humor in the ad. (R1) The humor in this unrealistic advertisement quickly draws readers attention to make you remember it. The picture stands out and is different from other ads because of the way it uses humor, so the audience is sure to remember

Chapter three in The Humor Code by Peter McGraw and Joel Warner discusses their trip to New York and their conversations with the many different people they met. One of the events in this chapter was the fact that Peter was called by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. They wanted to know if their new advertisements were funny and whether or not they would help get the message across. After this call, Peter was intrigued as to if humor actually helps sell a product or get a certain message out to their audience. This intrigued me because I see this all over and never thought if it works. This made me think deeper into whether or not humor sells.

The qualities I appreciate most about a specific convention is the use of satire. Satire is “the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues,” satire is used all around us today from being used in standup comedy to television, magazines, and newspaper, also to social media in the likes of Instagram, Facebook, and Vine. The best type of satire, in my opinion, is when the person ridiculing the subject matter does it in a form of affection. Unfortunately, affection is not always used and people who are public figures are those who get harsh criticism in the form of satire. Since public figures are looked at as being perfect, beautiful, or having it all together, this makes them the biggest target for satire.

Besides, individual factors such as age, gender, nationality and so on which affect the audiences’ perceptions and interpretation are not taken into account in the current study. Those variables should be gauged in the research to obtain further insights. The social media―Facebook was used in this study due to the reflection of a real-life condition, yet it contains a potential risk of source-credibility (Hornikx, 2003; Spence et al., 2013). Finally, apart from the intentions to pass along the advertising parodies, other factors that result in the positive or negative impact can enhance the further studies. There is an example taken from the research released by Sweeney, Soutar and Mazzarol (2014), the parodies’ ‘buzz’ effect may radicalize the audiences’ attitudes and opinions. Furthermore, negative buzz is likely that it would give rise to bias and prejudice from the viewers. In that case, they would evaluate the parodies with negative comments instead of positive appraisals (Herr, Kardes and Km,

Ricky was a young adult from New Ankara and was not very smart. He suffers short-term memory loss Ever since he stuck a fork in an electrical outlet, his memory loss is trying to be cured and he has trouble learning simple things like simple addition. He diverted teaching himself math and decided to learn the alphabet because he needed to be literate if he wanted to survive. Every day, he allotted a certain amount of letters in the alphabet to learn. Originally, the information inflexed back and he was starting to remember grammar and the laws of English. However, one day, his mother never came home to help him with his alphabet lessons. After working his ways through the intricate streets of New Ankara, he found out that his mother went to work only to give them the note that she left New Ankara because she was going insane because of her son. Ricky was saddened, but went home and continued the lessons without her. He kept the note and a photo of her as a memorial.

Satire is constantly evolving in order to maintain with the times. As technology, culture and humanity change and grow, satire is forced to grow with it. Satire of our modern time is more likely to be found on our phones than on print, more likely on a television than a telegram. By merging with pop culture, in forms of Family Guy and Comedy Central news shows, these forms of satire are able to stay relevant. But, despite the change in medium, the purpose of satire and effect of satire holds true. Modern satire, just as that of past satire, sheds light on the problems of our society through ridicule and mockery, without reinforcing and further cementing the stereotypes and prejudices they are trying to expose.

Parody, a form of adaptation that allows the reader to re-examine the original text in a new light, is a complex literary concept since it has several different definitions. According to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English (1951), ‘parody’ stems from the Greek ‘parōidia’. The term ‘parōidia’ is made up of two words: ‘para’, meaning “beside, beyond”; and ‘oide’ (ode), which means “song, poem”. This implies that parody could be a song sung beside another or against it. The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary presents a significant definition of ‘para’ as a prefix: It denotes the sense of being “associated in a subsidiary or accessory capacity.” The word ‘subsidiary’, though, entails that parody is a secondary work. This has resulted

After reading this article, there are a few things that I see that stand out: Firstly is that the technique of parody is done so much in the 16th century that it becomes difficult to know from whose work came this work and which piece drew compositional ideas from that piece. The next thing that I found interesting was the “problem” being addressed in the article was whether or not the two pieces were by Josquin. Later on in the article it talks about Credo incorporating almost half of another piece's material. My thought on this is how is this not plagiarism? How was the technique of parody distinguished from taking someone else's material and calling it their own?

Satire has many definitions, but according to Merriam Webster satire can be defined as “A literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn” (Webster). This definition is likely used by many authors who exercise the application of satire. Satire has been in literature since ancient times; it is derived from the Latin satura, meaning "dish of mixed fruits," (Weisgerber). Many satirists have shared a common aim: to expose foolishness in all its guises — vanity, hypocrisy, formalism, reverence, and the intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself (Moyers). As previously mentioned, the term satire was originally derived from satura, defined by Quintilian, a roman

Parody, in Leitch’s terms, is an adaptation, that instead of copying a text/style, it seeks to satirize it, via subtle ways of poking at the sources elements (Leitch, pgs. 116-188). This is the case for Crooked House, which aims point out some