Genre
Satire & Parody
Comedy aimed at a target. Parody imitates a form to expose it; satire uses the form to attack something outside the film entirely.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick · 1964
Airplane!
Jim Abrahams · 1980
The Social Network
David Fincher · 2010
Blazing Saddles
Mel Brooks · 1974
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