Beyond a Joke Archer, Neil
2017, 2016, 2016-10-27
eBook
At the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, a global audience of nearly one billion viewers were treated to the unprecedented sight of James Bond meeting Queen Elizabeth II. Shortly after, ...the 'Queen' hurled herself out of a helicopter, her Union Jack parachute guiding her down to the Olympic Stadium. What it is about moments such as these that define both a particular idea of Britishness and a particular type of British film comedy? How has British cinema exploited parody as a means of negotiating its sense of identity? How does this function within a globalized marketplace and in the face of dominant Hollywood cinema? Beyond a Joke explores the myriad ways British film culture has used forms of parody, from the 1960s to the present day. It provides a contextual and textual analysis of a range of works that, while popular, have only rarely been the subject of serious academic attention – from Morecambe and Wise to Shaun of the Dead to the London 2012 Olympics' opening ceremony. Combining the methodologies both of film history and film theory, Beyond a Joke locates parody within specific industrial and cultural moments, while also looking in detail at the aesthetics of parody as a mode. Ultimately, such works are shown to be a form of culturally specific film or televisual product for exporting to the global market, in which 'Britishness', shaped in self-mocking and ironic terms, becomes the selling point. Written in an accessible style and illustrated throughout with a diverse range of examples, Beyond a Joke is the first book to explore parody within a specifically British context and makes an invaluable contribution to the scholarship on both British and global film culture.
The art of mashup music, its roots in parody, and its social and legal implications.Parody needn't recognize copyright—but does an algorithm recognize parody? The ever-increasing popularity of remix ...culture and mashup music, where parody is invariably at play, presents a conundrum for internet platforms, with their extensive automatic, algorithmic policing of content. Taking a wide-ranging look at mashup music—the creative and technical considerations that go into making it; the experience of play, humor, enlightenment, and beauty it affords; and the social and legal issues it presents—Parody in the Age of Remix offers a pointed critique of how society balances the act of regulating art with the act of preserving it.In several jurisdictions, national and international, parody is exempted from copyright laws. Ragnhild Brøvig contends that mashups should be understood as a form of parody, and thus be protected from removal from hosting platforms. Nonetheless, current copyright-related content-moderation regimes, relying on algorithmic detection and automated decision making, frequently eliminate what might otherwise be deemed gray-area content—to the detriment of human listeners and, especially, artists. Given the inaccuracy of takedowns, Parody in the Age of Remix makes a persuasive argument in favor of greater protection for remix creativity in the future—but it also suggests that the content-moderation challenges facing mashup producers and other remixers are symptomatic of larger societal issues.
Defining "Fake News" Tandoc, Edson C.; Lim, Zheng Wei; Ling, Richard
Digital journalism,
02/2018, Letnik:
6, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This paper is based on a review of how previous studies have defined and operationalized the term "fake news." An examination of 34 academic articles that used the term "fake news" between 2003 and ...2017 resulted in a typology of types of fake news: news satire, news parody, fabrication, manipulation, advertising, and propaganda. These definitions are based on two dimensions: levels of facticity and deception. Such a typology is offered to clarify what we mean by fake news and to guide future studies.
This article reconstructs the concept and definition of mock-heroic poetry by examining and commenting on its tenets as first presented by Alessandro Tassoni in the prefatory letter to his Secchia ...Rapita (1622), as well as in other textual and paratextual loci in the poem. By the same token, this contribution aims to clarify the relations linking the mock-heroic, parody, and satire in Tassoni’s poem.
This article explores the rhetorical function of Internet memes as memory actants. It contributes to an ongoing conversation about the ways in which digital communication has transformed the ...relationship between media, memory, and the archive by disrupting predicable “decay times” and emphasizing memory as a “connective” process rather than a “collective” product. Through an analysis of memetic responses to affective flashpoints in the collective US experience, namely, the 9/11 constellation, this article explores the potential for memes to influence not only the content of public memory but also the attitudes with which we remember that content.
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