Estetica del pastiche e intermedialità: «Povera piccina»

The pastiche is not strictly confined to the realm of comic or humour: sometimes it can be a pure exercise of rewriting or linguistic contamination in a total neutral way. Nevertheless, it is true that its dominant feature is usually a joking one, in all its possible shades, from aggressive laugh to the finest irony. The present article will start from a theoretical definition of pastiche, as usually opposed to parody, and will shed light on how the pastiche fits perfectly the new textual configurations of our contemporary era, expecially if we look at intermedial phenomena. In the last part, an example of an unknown example of intermedial pastiche (a camp rewrting of classic cinema) will be provided