Pastiche- celebrating and presenting traditional genres. For example Quentin Tarantino movies and Easy A
Parody- making fun of a version

Illustrated Case Study:-Romantic Comedy

Romantic comedies Usually revolve around the idea of a couple that are distressed, loney and ultimately end up with each other. However after battling numerous obstacles such as trust issues, in denial or insecurities.
Iconography for romantic comedy movie:
The typical setting for Romcoms would be in restaurants with dim lighting, gyms, cottages, the beach and or other environments that would allow two people to fall in love such as the typical City stories like 'Pretty Woman'

Primitive: This is the first stage that establishes the traditional genre and characters. For example it's usually set in a laid back or humorous setting for example the first scene of '10 things I hate about you' opens up with high school girls enjoying their music in their car on the way to school, then introducing Kat a more stronger opinionated female who we as the audience can tell she'll eventually fall in love.

2nd stage-the classical- this stage is where the movie is at it's peak of the genre, conforming to qualities that are of the regular romcom. such as in the movie 'Clueless' when Cher falls in love with the typical, masculine new student Christian. This leads to our expectations of the girl in distress falling in love with the boy. perhaps just based on lust and looks.

3rd stage-revionist- At this stage the genre is scrutinesed and critically changed to make it unexpected. For example in the movie 'Pretty Woman'