Contemporary Political Satire

Author : Amber Day
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780253005144

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Satire and Dissent by Amber Day Pdf

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 : Meredith McNeill Hale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192573322

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The Birth of Modern Political Satire by Meredith McNeill Hale Pdf

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 : M. D. Fletcher
Publisher : Lanham, MD : University Press of America
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political satire
ISBN : UCSC:32106007772319

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Contemporary Political Satire by M. D. Fletcher Pdf

Author : Jessica Milner Davis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319567747

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Satire and Politics by Jessica Milner Davis Pdf

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 : Jonathan Gray,Jeffrey P. Jones,Ethan Thompson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814731994

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Satire TV by Jonathan Gray,Jeffrey P. Jones,Ethan Thompson Pdf

This work examines what happens when comedy becomes political, and politics become funny. A series of original essays focus on a range of programmes, from 'The Daily Show' to 'South Park'.

Author : Mehnaaz Momen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498592758

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Political Satire, Postmodern Reality, and the Trump Presidency by Mehnaaz Momen Pdf

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 : Nicholas Holm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319509501

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Humour as Politics by Nicholas Holm Pdf

This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world. Drawing on a range of contemporary televisual, cinematic and digital examples, from Seinfeld and Veep to Family Guy and Chappelle’s Show, Holm explores how humour has become a central site of cultural politics in the twenty-first century. More than just a form of entertainment, humour has come to play a central role in the contemporary media environment, shaping how we understand ideas of freedom, empathy, social boundaries and even logic. Through an analysis of humour as a political and aesthetic category, Humour as Politics challenges older models of laughter as a form of dissent and instead argues for a new theory of humour as the cultural expression of our (neo)liberal moment.

Author : A. Dagnes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137270344

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A Conservative Walks Into a Bar by A. Dagnes Pdf

Conservative critics argue that modern political satire, in the age of The Daily Show, has a liberal bias. A quick review of the humor landscape shows that there are very few conservative political satirists, and using personal interviews with political humorists this book explains why. The book explores the history of satire, the comedy profession, and the nature of satire itself to examine why there is an ideological imbalance in political humor and it explores the consequences of this disparity. This book will appeal to Daily Show and Colbert fans, political junkies, and anyone interested in the intersection of politics and media.

Author : Kirk Combe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0367654091

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Speculative Satire in Contemporary Literature and Film by Kirk Combe Pdf

"Kirk Combe theorizes a new type of contemporary political satire: the Rant. Grim, imaginative, and complex in its blending of genres, the Rant targets the Regime-the dangerous social and economic orthodoxies of neoliberalism and neoconservatism"--

Author : Olena Boylu
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783832555566

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Politics, Satire, and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary American Novel by Olena Boylu Pdf

What is the role of the historical and political novel in our lives? Is it just a story from the past, or does it shape our historical consciousness? Can we rely on the information within this type of fiction? According to many historicists, we cannot. However, we can also question numerous ideologically shaped history books that look more like fiction than scientific sources. Hence, historically and politically loaded fiction has an equal chance in the formational process of our historical consciousness. Besides, through satire and humor, which a scientist omits in a history book, a novelist manages to affect its reader on a different scale and leave a deeper trace. As E.,L. Doctorow once stated, ``The historian tells you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.'' Hence, this study analyzes several significant concepts such as historiography, historical consciousness, power, its elements, and the way it operates; traces major characteristics of historical and political fiction, and determines the role of satire within them. Eventually, through the analysis of several prominent contemporary novels, it provides vivid examples of all the concepts that have been discussed.

Author : Gregory H. Williams
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226898957

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Permission to Laugh by Gregory H. Williams Pdf

Permission to Laugh explores the work of three generations of German artists who, beginning in the 1960s, turned to jokes and wit in an effort to confront complex questions regarding German politics and history. Gregory H. Williams highlights six of them—Martin Kippenberger, Isa Genzken, Rosemarie Trockel, Albert Oehlen, Georg Herold, and Werner Büttner—who came of age in the mid-1970s in the art scenes of West Berlin, Cologne, and Hamburg. Williams argues that each employed a distinctive brand of humor that responded to the period of political apathy that followed a decade of intense political ferment in West Germany. Situating these artists between the politically motivated art of 1960s West Germany and the trends that followed German unification in 1990, Williams describes how they no longer heeded calls for a brighter future, turning to jokes, anecdotes, and linguistic play in their work instead of overt political messages. He reveals that behind these practices is a profound loss of faith in the belief that art has the force to promulgate political change, and humor enabled artists to register this changed perspective while still supporting isolated instances of critical social commentary. Providing a much-needed examination of the development of postmodernism in Germany, Permission to Laugh will appeal to scholars, curators, and critics invested in modern and contemporary German art, as well as fans of these internationally renowned artists.

Author : Al Gini,Abraham Singer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538129722

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The Sanity of Satire by Al Gini,Abraham Singer Pdf

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 : Iain MacKenzie,Fred Francis,Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786604088

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Comedy and Critical Thought by Iain MacKenzie,Fred Francis,Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone Pdf

Throughout history, comedians and clowns have enjoyed a certain freedom to speak frankly often denied to others in hegemonic systems. More recently, professional comedians have developed platforms of comic license from which to critique the traditional political establishment and have managed to play an important role in interrogating and mediating the processes of politics in contemporary society. This collection will examine the questions that arise when of comedy and critique intersect by bringing together both critical theorists and comedy scholars with a view to exploring the nature of comedy, its potential role in critical theory and the forms it can take as a practice of resistance.

Author : Julie A. Webber
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498569859

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The Joke Is on Us by Julie A. Webber Pdf

This edited volume brings together scholars of comedy to assess how political comedy encounters neoliberal themes in contemporary media. Central to this task is the notion of genre; under neoliberal conditions (where market logics motivate most actions) genre becomes “mixed.” Once stable, discreet categories such as comedy, horror, drama and news and entertainment have become blurred so as to be indistinguishable. The classic modern paradigm of comedy/tragedy no longer holds, if it ever did. Moreover, as politics becomes more economic and less moral or normative under neoliberalism, we are able to see new resistance to comedic genres that support neoliberal strategies to hide racial and gender injustice such as unlaughter, ambiguity, and anti-comedy. There is also an increasing interest with comedy as a form of entertainment on the political right following both Brexit in the UK and the election of Trump in the U.S. Several essays confront this conservative comedy and place it in context of the larger humor history of these debates over free speech and political correctness. For comedians too, entry into popular media now follows the familiar neoliberal script of the celebration of self-help with the increasing admonishment of those who fail to win in market terms. Laughter plays an important role in shaming and valorizing (often at the same time!) the precarious subject in the aftermath of global recession. Doubling down on austerity, self-help policies and equivocation in the face of extremist challenges (right and left), politics foils the critical comedian’s attempt to satirize and parody its object. Characterized by ambiguity, mixed genre and the increasing use of anti-humor, political comedy mirrors the social and political world it mocks, parodies and celebrates often with lackluster results suggesting that the joke might be on us, as audiences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN : 1933784652

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Mad about Politics by Anonim Pdf

Revel in the salacious animation of the leaders of the world's superpowers' most embarrassing moments. Hunt with Dick Cheney, learn how to spell with Dan Quayle, take speech lessons with George W. Bush, and find out why Alfred E. Neuman is running for President - again and again and again.