COP2 - Parody/Pastiche

Parody and pastiche are two similar terms. Both these terms relate to the reusing and reference of historic and cultural events however they do so in different ways. Parody uses the information with a satirical tone, intended for amusement. Whereas pastiche simple references the information without any other intentions. Hutcheon argues that postmodernism is parodical because postmodernism finds what is at the core of the subject and then finds a way to encompass a twist within the pre-composed conventional idea of that subject. "I want to argue that postmodernism is a fundamentally con-tradictory enterprise: its art forms (and its theory) use and abuse, install and then subvert convention in parodic ways," Jameson describized pastiche as recycling ideas and cultural aspects once they have already been done. "the random cannibalization of all the styles of the past".