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Author | : Al Gini |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2020-10-07 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1538129728 |
Download The Sanity of Satire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Political humor and satire are, perhaps, as old as comedy itself, and they are crucial to our society and our collective sense of self. Satire is confrontational. It’s about pushback, dissent, discord, disappointment, and demonstrating the absurdity of the status quo. This book is an attempt to explore how these aspects of satire help secure our sanity. Aristotle famously said that humans are naturally political animals. We need political community to flourish and live good lives. But politics also entails unpopular decisions, oppression, and power struggles. Satire is a vehicle through which we reflect on and challenge the irrational, incomprehensible, and intolerable nature of our lives without becoming totally despondent or depressed. In a poignant, pithy, but not ponderous manner, Al Gini and Abraham Singer delve into the history of satire to rejoice in its triumphs and watch its development from ancient graffiti to the latest late-night TV talk show.
Author | : Jessica Milner Davis |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2017-11-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3319567748 |
Download Satire and Politics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the multi-media explosion of contemporary political satire. Rooted in 18th century Augustan practice, satire’s indelible link with politics underlies today’s universal disgust with the ways of elected politicians. This study interrogates the impact of British and American satirical media on political life, with a special focus on political cartoons and the levelling humour of Australasian satirists.
Author | : Mehnaaz Momen |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2018-12-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1498592759 |
Download Political Satire, Postmodern Reality, and the Trump Presidency Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is an in-depth analysis of the phenomenon of the takeover of politics by entertainment. The author looks for answers in the parallel evolution of satire, the media, and politics, and how each has influenced the other and the implications of this interconnectedness for political discourse.
Author | : Meredith McNeill Hale |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-09-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0192573322 |
Download The Birth of Modern Political Satire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Political satire has been a primary weapon of the press since the eighteenth century and is still intimately associated with one of the most important values of western democratic society: the right of individuals to free speech. This study documents one of the most important moments in the history of printed political imagery, when political print became what we would recognise as modern political satire. Contrary to conventional historical and art historical narratives, which place the emergence of political satire in the news-driven coffee-house culture of eighteenth-century London, Meredith M. Hale locates the birth of the genre in the late seventeenth-century Netherlands in the contentious political milieu surrounding William III's invasion of England known as the 'Glorious Revolution'. The satires produced between 1688 and 1690 by the Dutch printmaker Romeyn de Hooghe on the events surrounding William III's campaigns against James II and Louis XIV establish many of the qualities that define the genre to this day: the transgression of bodily boundaries; the interdependence of text and image; the centrality of dialogic text to the generation of meaning; serialized production; and the emergence of the satirist as a primary participant in political discourse. This study, the first in-depth analysis of De Hooghe's satires since the nineteenth century, considers these prints as sites of cultural influence and negotiation, works that both reflected and helped to construct a new relationship between the government and the governed.
Author | : Amber Day |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2011-02-16 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0253005140 |
Download Satire and Dissent Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In an age when Jon Stewart frequently tops lists of most-trusted newscasters, the films of Michael Moore become a dominant topic of political campaign analysis, and activists adopt ironic, fake personas to attract attention—the satiric register has attained renewed and urgent prominence in political discourse. Amber Day focuses on the parodist news show, the satiric documentary, and ironic activism to examine the techniques of performance across media, highlighting their shared objective of bypassing standard media outlets and the highly choreographed nature of current political debate.
Author | : Gerard Nehling |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 57 |
Release | : 2009-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3640359291 |
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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Englisch - Sonstiges, Note: 1,3, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Englisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Landeskunde: Britain and Europe, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The following essay will explore political and social satire in The Simpsons. This essay will prove Homer Simpson wrong saying in the episode "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" "...cartoons don't have any deep meaning. They are just stupid drawings that give you a cheap laugh". In this essay it will be argued that The Simpsons provides us with an in-depth satirical reflection on U.S. society and, to a certain degree, on Western societies in general. Furthermore, this essay will examine the view of creator Matt Groening and the other writers of The Simpsons that the programme skilfully incorporates the subtext that "[t]he people in power don't always have your best interest in mind" (Cantor 1999, p. 745). Armstrong (2005a, p. 11) emphasises in his article about "Satire as Critical Pedagogy" that satire is a vehicle through which political literacy will be developed and underlines that it is an important part of political education. Thus, the analysis of satire is a vital part of cultural studies and is accordingly examined in this essay.
Author | : Mohammed Hanif |
Publisher | : Random House India |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8184002327 |
Download A case of Exploding Mangoes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In August 1988, Zia gets into the presidential plane, Pak One, which explodes midway. Who killed him? The army generals growing old waiting for their promotions, the CIA, the ISI, RAW, or Ali Shigri, a junior officer at the military academy whose father, a whisky-swilling jihadi colonel, was murdered by the army? A Case of Exploding Mangoes is sharp, black, inventive, and utterly gripping. It marks the debut of a brilliant new writer.
Author | : S. McClennen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 113740521X |
Download Is Satire Saving Our Nation? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The book studies the intersections between satirical comedy and national politics in order to show that one of the strongest supports for our democracy today comes from those of us who are seriously joking. This book shows how we got to this place and why satire may be the only way we can save our democracy and strengthen our nation.
Author | : Mark Knights |
Publisher | : Boydell Press is |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781783272037 |
Download The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to affirm communal boundaries and to undermine them.
Author | : Stephen E. Kercher |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0226431657 |
Download Revel with a Cause Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
We live in a time much like the postwar era. A time of arch political conservatism and vast social conformity. A time in which our nation’s leaders question and challenge the patriotism of those who oppose their policies. But before there was Jon Stewart, Al Franken, or Bill Maher, there were Mort Sahl, Stan Freberg, and Lenny Bruce—liberal satirists who, through their wry and scabrous comedic routines, waged war against the political ironies, contradictions, and hypocrisies of their times. Revel with a Cause is their story. Stephen Kercher here provides the first comprehensive look at the satiric humor that flourished in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. Focusing on an impressive range of comedy—not just standup comedians of the day but also satirical publications like MAD magazine, improvisational theater groups such asSecond City, the motion picture Dr. Strangelove, and TV shows like That Was the Week That Was—Kercher reminds us that the postwar era saw varieties of comic expression that were more challenging and nonconformist than we commonly remember. His history of these comedic luminaries shows that for a sizeable audience of educated, middle-class Americans who shared such liberal views, the period’s satire was a crucial mode of cultural dissent. For such individuals, satire was a vehicle through which concerns over the suppression of civil liberties, Cold War foreign policies, blind social conformity, and our heated racial crisis could be productively addressed. A vibrant and probing look at some of the most influential comedy of mid-twentieth-century America, Revel with a Cause belongs on the short list of essential books for anyone interested in the relationship between American politics and popular culture.