Detournement definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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Thing is, it's a nice bit of detournement because instead of then sending up genres beloved of ignorant hicks, the band play the most menacing and the most loving songs in the entire film (the theme from Rawhide, and 'Stand By Your Man'), proving that genres with tight constraints can still convey plenty of emotion, and that good comedy needn't be about mockery.

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Examples (4)

And you just want to be somewhere else … 'less like a detournement of advertising copy than a self help approach to political activism, the' middle class voice 'that Douglass characteristically claimed Climate Camp spoke in. — Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET
Thing is, it's a nice bit of detournement because instead of then sending up genres beloved of ignorant hicks, the band play the most menacing and the most loving songs in the entire film (the theme from Rawhide, and 'Stand By Your Man'), proving that genres with tight constraints can still convey plenty of emotion, and that good comedy needn't be about mockery. — Drowned In Sound // Feed
The original Japanese film ends in a successful riot which plays directly into Viénet's detournement. — Torrentreactor.Net
About: The film uses a much older martial arts film ( "The Crush" from Doo Kwang Gee) for its visuals which has been dubbed over by the filmmakers in an attempt at detournement. — Torrentreactor.Net