There can always be one more word said about or one more text added to a genre. The genre is renewed by this constant borrowing. The new Menippea offers another example of this. These two forces allow what can be said about an issue and how those issues can be raised. The cultural studies project does not fully recognize the impact of time.
Time is only recent time or the time it takes from production to recpetion.
By focusing on the former, the cultural studies project could show the influence of older forms and by focusing on the latter the project could move past a technological critique of television. The technological critique views television as a medium of reproductions. This claim is so established that its validity cannot be debated. Looking at how television not only reproduces forms but how it renews the forms will help to expand our knowledge of both television and culture. Return to top Parody Parody is the relationship between discourses.