MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture Notes - Leslie Hall, Liberace, Kitsch
23 Nov 2013
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An aesthetic sensibility where things that are ridiculous to the viewer are considered humorous or appealing! Similar to kitsch = gaudy and tacky popular art forms! Notes on camp (1964) referred to camp as love of the unnatural: of arti ce and exaggeration. Roscoe & height (in mock-documentary and the subversion of factuality) note that: Parody borrows styles in order to mock and critique them - it works against discourses that take themselves seriously! Is different than pastiche (which lacks critique) Satire implies ridicule of subject, parody may not. Like irony, parody offers up more than one meaning, it embodies ambivalence and ambiguity. Comic elements of parody appreciated when we recognize the object being mocked! Consider how popular culture can be highly referential in how it refers to other representations rather than referring primarily to things in the world. What other representations do these videos refer to? (macklemore/ryan lewis vs.
