Parody

A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation. Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it, but a parody can also be about a real-life person, event or movement. The literary scholar Simon Dentith defines parody as any cultural practice that provides a relatively polemical, allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice, while the literary theorist Linda Hutcheon holds that parody is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text. Parody may be found across art and culture, including literature, music, theater, television, film, animation and gaming.