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View definitions for send up

send up

verb as in heighten

verb as in lampoon

verb as in mock

verb as in take off

noun as in burlesque

noun as in caricature

noun as in lampoon

noun as in mockery

noun as in takeoff

noun as in travesty

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Occasionally, cinematographer Ava Berkofsky allows herself a flourish, like a split-screen gag that gets a good giggle, or a tiny send-up of the aesthetics of online selling.

Enter “The Franchise,” HBO’s recent send-up of superhero movies, and now “The Studio,” starring Seth Rogen as the put-upon head of Continental Studios, where movies trump “artsy fartsy films” — to the cinephile chief’s apparent chagrin.

The moment is at once a lens into a power dynamic that will run the length of the film, and a send-up of monkey see, monkey do.

Early on while our eyes are still adjusting to the style, the dim bluish lighting and the hectic way people run around grabbing maps and slamming rotary phones almost feel like a send-up of a CIA spy flick.

It works best as a comedy, a clever send-up of electoral politics.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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