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I asked Newegg why it did not assert its right to run a parody without a disclaimer.
In music, scores from centuries past have preserved classic works, which modern composers may wish to modify, rearrange, or parody without loss of the originals.
This is a tour de force that hovers on the edge of parody without ever falling over, and when Lugosi dies, the picture dies a little too.
This manner — bright, hyper, nervously ironic, gesturing toward parody without commitment, covertly uncertain — redeems itself partly as a convincing symptom and partly because Morrisroe does uncover a lot of information.
"The Good Guys," which begins Wednesday on Fox, takes the whimsy even further -- it's a buddy act about two mismatched Texas cops that skates close to the edge of parody without quite tipping over into "Reno 911!" territory.
The hardest thing about pastiche is to duplicate the style and tone of the original without falling into parody — without the self-satisfying notion of superiority to an earlier age of artifice, as if only the past had style whereas the present day has a neutral, natural universality.
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It easily slips into self-parody without meaning to.
The movies were skewed genre commentary: surreal parody, offered without irony; spoof that was too unstable to settle into satire.
Resident Evil is like a Brock Landers style porn parody, just without the sex.
But in "The Green Hour" his style has a stilted, airless quality, as if he were parodying something without quite realizing it.
I was frightened that I had become a self-parody - but without going to the trouble of acquiring a self first.
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