Pastiche
noun
A work of art that imitates the style of another artist, genre or period.
The movie is a pastiche of science fiction and detective genres.
Often appears as...
- artistic pastiche
- musical pastiche
noun
An imitation or replication that has hodgepodge aspects or is considered a combination of different elements.
His house is an eclectic pastiche of differing architectural styles.
Often appears as...
- architectural pastiche
- cultural pastiche
noun
A work of art that imitates the style of another artist, genre or period.
The movie is a pastiche of science fiction and detective genres.
Often appears as...
- artistic pastiche
- musical pastiche
noun
An imitation or replication that has hodgepodge aspects or is considered a combination of different elements.
His house is an eclectic pastiche of differing architectural styles.
Often appears as...
- architectural pastiche
- cultural pastiche
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Artistic Tribute
Pastiche celebrates other works, often as homage, not just copy.
The director's film was a pastiche of his childhood hero's movies.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Satire
Unlike a parody, pastiche isn't meant to mock but to honor the original style.
Her novel is a respectful pastiche of 19th-century literature.
Pro Tip 3/3Genre Blending
Pastiche can mix elements from different genres to create something unique.
His music is a pastiche, blending jazz, classical, and pop.
Pro Tip 1/3Artistic Tribute
Pastiche celebrates other works, often as homage, not just copy.
The director's film was a pastiche of his childhood hero's movies.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Satire
Unlike a parody, pastiche isn't meant to mock but to honor the original style.
Her novel is a respectful pastiche of 19th-century literature.
Pro Tip 3/3Genre Blending
Pastiche can mix elements from different genres to create something unique.
His music is a pastiche, blending jazz, classical, and pop.
Pro Tip 1/3Artistic Tribute
Pastiche celebrates other works, often as homage, not just copy.
The director's film was a pastiche of his childhood hero's movies.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Satire
Unlike a parody, pastiche isn't meant to mock but to honor the original style.
Her novel is a respectful pastiche of 19th-century literature.
Pro Tip 3/3Genre Blending
Pastiche can mix elements from different genres to create something unique.
His music is a pastiche, blending jazz, classical, and pop.
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How sampling transformed...
He flips it, makes it, there's nothing pastiche whatsoever about it. It's thoroughly modern Biggie. I had to make that joke in this room, because you would be the only people that I'd ever have a chance of getting it. And so, it's a groaner. Elsewhere in the pop and rap world,
Video examples
How sampling transformed...
He flips it, makes it, there's nothing pastiche whatsoever about it. It's thoroughly modern Biggie. I had to make that joke in this room, because you would be the only people that I'd ever have a chance of getting it. And so, it's a groaner. Elsewhere in the pop and rap world,
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Quote examples
Derek Cianfrance
American Director
Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that you like, characters that you're interested in, moments you want to explore, themes you want to deal with, music that you want to put in. It's a pastiche of all these things that deal with how you see the world.
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Ron Carlson
American Novelist
I was a good college kid, all-American and baseball-playing, living in the dorms with a million barbarians. I did not expect to be claimed by Fitzgerald hook, line, and sinker. 'This Side of Paradise' - that sweet, sophomoric pastiche of notes, scenes, poetry, and plays - I felt like he'd written the book just for me.
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Jean Dujardin
French Actor
This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought.
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Mark Fisher
British Writer
In terms of the film itself, there was nothing much very new about 'Star Wars.' 'Star Wars' was a trailblazer for the kind of monumentalist pastiche which has become standard in a homogeneous Hollywood blockbuster culture that, perhaps more than any other film, 'Star Wars' played a role in inventing.
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Sasha Velour
American Entertainer
I want to do something that is not just a pastiche of drag that's come before but is really authentically me. I try to tune out all the drag that's out there and tap into the drag that I was doing when I was a little kid - when I didn't even know the word 'queer' or that gay people were out there.
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Mark Fisher
British Writer
The fact that the 1984 cold war film 'Red Dawn' has been remade is more than just another sign of Hollywood declining into pastiche and repetition. It shows that, in a moment of deep capitalist crisis, the Red Peril is back.
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James Wolcott
American Critic
A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.
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Moshe Safdie
Israeli Architect
I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.
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Trixie Mattel
American Entertainer
Drag is pastiche and parody and satire. Drag queens are never meant to be stars. We make fun of stars. Drag queens are the people that 'point' at the star.
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Hilary Mantel
English Writer
I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.
Quote examples
Derek Cianfrance
American Director
Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that you like, characters that you're interested in, moments you want to explore, themes you want to deal with, music that you want to put in. It's a pastiche of all these things that deal with how you see the world.
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Ron Carlson
American Novelist
I was a good college kid, all-American and baseball-playing, living in the dorms with a million barbarians. I did not expect to be claimed by Fitzgerald hook, line, and sinker. 'This Side of Paradise' - that sweet, sophomoric pastiche of notes, scenes, poetry, and plays - I felt like he'd written the book just for me.
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Jean Dujardin
French Actor
This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought.
Quote examples
Mark Fisher
British Writer
In terms of the film itself, there was nothing much very new about 'Star Wars.' 'Star Wars' was a trailblazer for the kind of monumentalist pastiche which has become standard in a homogeneous Hollywood blockbuster culture that, perhaps more than any other film, 'Star Wars' played a role in inventing.
Quote examples
Sasha Velour
American Entertainer
I want to do something that is not just a pastiche of drag that's come before but is really authentically me. I try to tune out all the drag that's out there and tap into the drag that I was doing when I was a little kid - when I didn't even know the word 'queer' or that gay people were out there.
Quote examples
Mark Fisher
British Writer
The fact that the 1984 cold war film 'Red Dawn' has been remade is more than just another sign of Hollywood declining into pastiche and repetition. It shows that, in a moment of deep capitalist crisis, the Red Peril is back.
Quote examples
James Wolcott
American Critic
A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.
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Moshe Safdie
Israeli Architect
I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.
Quote examples
Trixie Mattel
American Entertainer
Drag is pastiche and parody and satire. Drag queens are never meant to be stars. We make fun of stars. Drag queens are the people that 'point' at the star.
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Hilary Mantel
English Writer
I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.
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