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[CorU]atypeof writing oractingthattriesto make somethingseriousseemstupidandfunny: Thedancesceneis inparta burlesqueofBollywoodfilms. Thepoliticalburlesques are not veryhard-hittingandratherbland. Thecomedyissubtleandnuanced; it nevertipsover into burlesque. [CorU]USatypeoftheatreentertainmentin the US in the late 19th and early 20thcenturiesthat hadfunnyactsand astriptease(= aperformancein which someoneremovestheirclothes): 滑稽歌舞杂剧（包含脱衣舞等，盛行于19世纪末至20世纪初的美国） Heworkedfor manyyearsinvaudevilleand burlesque. Theydescribethe show as anold-fashionedmusicalburlesque. [U]amoderntypeofentertainmentthatincludesdancingandstriptease(= aperformerremovingtheirclothes): Nakeddancinghasbecomeacceptedas aformofartyentertainmentin thegrowingfashionfor burlesque. - Theyperformedburlesques ofclassicmoviessuch as "Gone With the Wind".
- Afterappearingon Broadway and in burlesque, sheswitchedtofilmsin 1908.
- There is afeministmovementin burlesque that is women saying, "I can be ultrafeminineandsexyand I'm doing it for myself."
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesTypes of film, play, book etc. - adaptation
- Afrofuturism
- allegorical
- allegory
- anime
- autobiographical
- computer-animated
- cyberpunk
- episodic
- Gothic
- kitchen-sink
- lampoon
- procedural
- prosy
- pulpy
- satirical
- science fiction
- self-referential
- SFF
- smash
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Humour & humorous Spectacles & performances relatingto or in thestyleofburlesqueentertainment: I really likeperforming, and Iwantedto do something burlesque and a littlegaudy. Heworkedinnightclubsas a burlesqueacrobat. showingor writing about somethingseriousin a way thattriesto make itseemstupidandfunny: Thepieceshewrotewas a burlesquetreatmentof areligioussermon. - Women in burlesqueattiredancedon thebar.
- There's something burlesque about thelookof thecar.
- Criticsfoundthe writingstiltedandartificialto thepointof it being burlesque.
- The play-within-a-play was a burlesqueaffairrenderedwithlaceratingwit.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesSpectacles & performances - aerobatic
- amateur theater
- balancing act
- bullfight
- bullfighting
- double-header
- minstrel show
- music hall
- non-musical
- one-night stand
- one-person
- routine
- spectacle
- spectacular
- street theatre
- strip
- stripping
- striptease
- super-spectacle
- supershow
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Types of film, play, book etc. Humour & humorous [CorU]atypeof writing oractingthattriesto make somethingseriousseemstupid 滑稽讽刺作品（或表演） [U]USatypeoftheatreentertainmentin the US in the late 19th and early 20thcenturiesthat hadfunnyactsand astriptease(= aperformancein which someoneremovestheirclothes) 滑稽歌舞杂剧（包含脱衣舞等，盛行于19世纪末至20世纪初的美国） Examplesofburlesqueburlesque He argues that burlesques are at their most telling when aiming their satire at the very 'summit' of their culture.From theCambridge English Corpus The words of the burlesque's song are cleverly structured to echo the rhymes of the borrowed tune.From theCambridge English Corpus Occupying intersticial positions between genres, performance venues and levels of cultural artefact, burlesques breached cultural categories within the theatrical world.From theCambridge English Corpus In some cases, anticlericals painted churches red, heaped religious images on the bonfire and performed liturgical burlesques in which bulls were crowned bishop.From theCambridge English Corpus All of the categories of musical selections routinely found in operatic burlesques are represented here, and several medleys juxtapose varying types of music.From theCambridge English Corpus Certainly, this consideration would have been at work in the operatic burlesques as well.From theCambridge English Corpus The activity of rhyme is autocratic as well as misaligned, burlesqueing the government of the body.From theCambridge English Corpus The comedy, in fact, was just the central part of these performances, conceived as full spectacles that incorporated many aspects of popular culture: dances, burlesques, carnivalesque elements.From theCambridge English Corpus Furthermore, literaryburlesquehad a popularity that strikes us as idiosyncratic, and drab realism made an inviting target.From theCambridge English Corpus They make aburlesqueof revolutionary myths of transparency.From theCambridge English Corpus Worse, theburlesquedoesn't just remove; it mocks the dispensation others have found in the soliloquy.From theCambridge English Corpus Her study examines hard country through theburlesque, 'a comic mode that can be used to undermine any cultural ideal'.From theCambridge English Corpus A higher level of comic refunctioning takes place when the original meaning of a quotation is completely changed by placing it in aburlesquecontext.From theCambridge English Corpus At the same time, this invocation of hunting, one of medieval nobility's most jealously guarded privileges, also emphasizes the summoner'sburlesqueof the secular.From theCambridge English Corpus Similar in form toburlesque, pantomime however, took its subjects mainly from children's stories, although some deal with historical or exotic subjects.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |