Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: The Weekly World News has graced the stands of supermarket aisles since its birth in 1979. Throughout its colorful history, I argue the Weekly World News is an example of pastiche, parodying diverse discourses from mainstream newspapers to other tabloid magazines, all the way to mainstream media. It is the goal to illuminate the nature of parody I observe within the Weekly World News. By analyzing several articles in different issues of the Weekly World News, I aim to show how this tabloid uses parody in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, and poke fun at a variety of subjects in order to make political and social arguments as well as attempting to push for change.
Author: Daniel P. Knaub
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1577789940