Sentences with phrase «parodies celebrity culture»

As a corrective, Adam McEwen parodies celebrity culture with fake New York Times obits for Rod Stewart, Nicole Kidman, Bill Clinton, and Jeff Koons.

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Indeed, the book outlines the full gamut of historical periods associated with different kinds of biopic subjects: the classical, celebratory form (melodrama); warts - and - all (melodrama / realism); transition from producer's genre to auteur's genre; critical investigation and atomisation of the subject; parody; culture based on consumerism and celebrity; minority appropriation (queer, feminist, African American, Third World, etc.); and neoclassical biopic, which integrates all of the above.

Of course Capitalist Realism had no such reputation in the U.S.; the artists were parodying the overnight ascendance of Pop Art, with its celebrity culture and embrace of everyday commodities, as well as the German craze for all things American.