Hommage vs Parody - What's the difference?
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A homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist.
* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=November 29, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=His Master's Vice, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=There's a clip from his Pickup on South Street in Scorsese's The King of Comedy, and extended hommages to other Fuller films in Godard's Breathless and Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.) }}
* {{quote-book, year=2002, title=Guido Cavalcanti, author=Maria Luisa Ardizzone, page=150, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=53XLa_9fq_sC&pg=PA150
, passage=It is certainly true that Pound wanted to pay hommage to Guido. }}
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 30, author=Anthony Tommasini, title=Doing Everything but Playing the Music, work=New York Times
, passage=The piece is like an hommage to Ives: atmospheric and thickly textured music with multiple elements happening at once. }}
A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
* Macaulay
(archaic) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
To make a parody of something.
As nouns the difference between hommage and parody
is that hommage is a homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist while parody is a work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.As a verb parody is
to make a parody of something.hommage
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See also
* (Hommage)Anagrams
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(wikipedia parody)Noun
(parodies)- The lively parody which he wrote was received with great applause.
Verb
(en-verb)- The comedy movie parodied the entire Western genre.
