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Pastiche meaning
A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way. | A musical medley, typically quoting other works. | An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
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In the video linked above, you can check out pastiche with a Roman patina from Hanna-Barbera.
It could be a paranoid thriller, a romantic comedy, or a pastiche musical.
It’s a victory snatched from the jaws of pastiche; not so much a crash course as a confidence-building exercise for the ravers.
This Italian horror film is a pastiche of a variety of horror genres, from giallo, to folk horror, to found footage.
Commercial and genre film tropes like these — combined with the creativity of this generation of queer women filmmakers — make for movies “that are very imaginative and very pastiche-y and not realist,” she said.
Happily, London has recently welcomed a pastiche.
That’s not a pastiche from or Pierre Poilievre, though it could well be.
The pastiche panto – which both trades on and sends up the conventions and tropes of traditional pantomime – walks something of a tightrope.
What could have been little more than a Ghostwatch pastiche stands out in very different and effective ways.
What remained was a spirited people who buried their cultural differences and came together in a pastiche of ethnic identities and colorful characters.
Like Lobo, Deadpool started out as a parody, as a direct pastiche of DC's Deathstroke.
At best, it's an underwhelming pastiche of east Asian cuisine.
Brash, unapologetic, and digging enthusiastically into a lengthy history of Jeep 4×4 heritage and iconic styling, the Gladiator could be at best a new truck hero, or at worst an overdue pastiche.
The rest is a visual pastiche of disconnected moments.
The trailer stresses all of this in a pastiche of visual nonsense.
Yet beyond that moroseness lay an emotional and sonic depth that perpetuated this precise pastiche of hardcore and noise.
The micro-budget pastiche of monster movies launched the careers of director John Landis and makeup artist Rick Baker.
The pastiche nature is in the details.
There are a lot of made-up groups and songwriters in this movie too, including 's Larraine Newman co-starring as a pastiche Carole King, but there are also real stars appearing in the movie's climax show at the Paramount.
There’s a risk, when you make a movie tie-in like the 2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt, of veering into pastiche.