deconstruct = 'undermine or discredit (an artistic work), as by parody, locating in an antithetical context, etc.'

[Joel S. Berson]

Good -- a deconstruction of deconstructionism, attaching a negative
characteristic to it. (Destructionism?)

Joel

At 11/14/2010 10:48 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>2009 Sam Stagg _Born to be Hurt_  [N.Y.: St. Martin's Press] 101: Since
>nothing in Sirk is accidental, I'm convinced that somehow he intended to
>desconstruct her evil masterpiece [_Triumph of the Will_].
>Stagg is referring to director Douglas Sirk's use of images reminiscent of
>some of those in Leni Riefenstahl's _T of the R_ but in an anti-Nazi movie,
>_Hitler's Madman_ (1943).
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