Key terminology:
- Homage-imitation from a respectful standpoint.
- Intertextuality - one media text referring to another.
- Bricolage - mixing up and using different genres and styles. e.g Shaun of the Dead: Zombie mixed with and romantc comedy.
- Pastiche - an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist or period. This is a self-conscious imitation.
- Pastiche/ Homage - Generic conventions of a "golden age" Hollywood film of which "gaga" is the leading lady
- Parody - mocking something in an original way.
Part of the idea of postmodernism is that there is no divide between high arts and mass culture.
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