The Satiric Decade

Author : Amy Wiese Forbes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0739129457

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The Satiric Decade by Amy Wiese Forbes Pdf

"Where do democratic political practices originate? This issue has long concerned republics, but few historians have studied the process by which people learn the skills of rights-based government. In this illuminating history, Amy Wiese Forbes addresses these origins by analyzing how republicanism took shape through the political satire that flooded French newspapers, theaters, courtrooms, and even academic life in 1830. Forbes shows that satire was the chief source of the critical spirit of republicanism that erupted in the 1840s and sustained the Republic in the 1870s and argues against the notion that satire had no lasting political impact. This book will speak to historians of French politics, republicanism, popular culture, the July Monarchy, satire and political humor, class and gender formation, and legal history." --Book Jacket.

Author : Ted Gournelos,Viveca Greene
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781617030079

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A Decade of Dark Humor by Ted Gournelos,Viveca Greene Pdf

A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor-in a variety of forms-to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001 and, more specifically, the aftermath. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from four countries to discuss the impact of humor and irony on both media discourse and tangible political reality. Furthermore, it demonstrates that laughter is simultaneously an avenue through which social issues are deferred or obfuscated, a way in which neoliberal or neoconservative rhetoric is challenged, and a means of forming alternative political ideologies. The volume's contributors cover a broad range of media productions, including news parodies (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, The Onion), TV roundtable shows (Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher), comic strips and cartoons (Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks, Jeff Danzinger's editorial cartoons), television drama (Rescue Me), animated satire (South Park), graphic novels (Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers), documentary (Fahrenheit 9/11), and other productions. Along with examining the rhetorical methods and aesthetic techniques of these productions, the essays place each in specific political and journalistic contexts, showing how corporations, news outlets, and political institutions responded to-and sometimes co-opted-these forms of humor.

Author : Amy Wiese Forbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : France
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063216878

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Author : Abel Schmuck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1935752057

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New Century, Same Shit by Abel Schmuck Pdf

A sidesplitting satire on the 2000s. A story about us Schmucks? What a great idea! Certainly more interesting than those boring memoirs of politicians. - A member of the Schmuck family Abel doesn't deserve a whole book. Who does he think he is? Take it from me, those Schmucks should be told to shut up! - Elizabeth, unfortunately married to one I wish that I had thought of writing a book like that. How much I could have satirized the world around us. - Mark Twain Burn him! Burn him! He should not be allowed to speak another word! Into the flames with him! Together with all the copies of his story! They are the enemies of my new world order! - Kim Jong-il

Author : Amber Day
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Paul Beatty
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374712242

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The Sellout by Paul Beatty Pdf

Winner of the Man Booker Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature New York Times Bestseller Los Angeles Times Bestseller Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, The Denver Post, BuzzFeed, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly Named a "Must-Read" by Flavorwire and New York Magazine's "Vulture" Blog A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality—the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens—on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles—the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral. Fueled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident—the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins—he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.

Author : Steven Heller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN : UCSD:31822010278182

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Man Bites Man by Steven Heller Pdf

This book is a collection of satirical drawings and cartoons ranging from 1960 to 1980.

Author : Meredith McNeill Hale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1558537740

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Mad about the Eighties by Anonim Pdf

A "MAD" look at the eighties as only America's foremost satire magazine perceives it--rehashing the era that brought us Ronald Reagan, Max Headroom, and, of course, Michael Jackson. of color illustrations.

Author : Jonathan Greenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781107030183

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The Cambridge Introduction to Satire by Jonathan Greenberg Pdf

Provides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.

Author : Ashley Marshall
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781421408163

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The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770 by Ashley Marshall Pdf

Rather, it is a collection of episodic little histories.

Author : Massih Zekavat,Tabea Scheel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000868661

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Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises by Massih Zekavat,Tabea Scheel Pdf

Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises explores how satire and humor can be employed to address and mitigate ecological crises at individual and collective levels. Besides scientific and technological endeavors, solutions to ecological crises must entail social and communicative reform to persuade citizens, corporations, organizations, and policymakers to adopt more sustainable lifestyles and policies. This monograph reassesses environmental behavior and messaging and explores the promises of humorous and satiric communication therein. It draws upon a solid and interdisciplinary theoretical foundation to explicate the individual, social, and ecospheric determinants of behavior. Creative works of popular culture across various modes of expression, including The Simpsons, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and The New Yorker cartoons, are examined to illustrate the strong if underappreciated relationship between humor and the environment. This is followed by a discussion of the instruments and methodological subtleties involved in measuring the impacts of humor and satire in environmental advocacy for the purpose of conducting empirical research. More broadly, the book aspires to participate in urgent cultural and political discussions about how we can evaluate and intervene in the full diversity of environmental crises, engage a broad set of internal and external partners and stakeholders, and develop models for positive social and environmental transformations. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars interested in environmental humanities, communication science, psychology, and critical humor studies. It can further benefit environmental activists, policymakers, NGOs, and campaign organizers.

Author : Ruben Quintero
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405171991

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A Companion to Satire by Ruben Quintero Pdf

This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire fromits emergence in Western literature to the present. Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic booksof the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the Englishtradition in satire to Michael Moore’s satirical movieFahrenheit 9/11. Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literaryand cultural development of Western satire. Focused mainly on major classical and European influences onand works of English satire, but also explores the complex andfertile cultural cross-semination within the tradition of literarysatire.

Author : Kevin Rulo
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781949979909

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Satiric Modernism by Kevin Rulo Pdf

In this book, Kevin Rulo reveals the crucial linkages between satire and modernism. He shows how satire enables modernist authors to evaluate modernity critically and to explore their ambivalence about the modern. Through provocative new readings of familiar texts and the introduction of largely unknown works, Satiric Modernism exposes a larger satiric mentality at work in well-known authors like T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Ellison and in less studied figures like G.S. Street, the Sitwells, J.J. Adams, and Herbert Read, as well as in the literature of migration of Sam Selvon and John Agard, in the films of Paolo Sorrentino, and in the drama of Sarah Kane. In so doing, Rulo remaps the last hundred years as an era marked distinctively by a new kind of satiric critique of and aesthetic engagement with the temporal fissures, logics, and regimes of modernity. This ambitious, expansive study reshapes our understanding of modernist literary history and will be of interest to scholars of twentieth century and contemporary literature as well as of satire.

Author : Kate Racculia
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544129917

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Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia Pdf

A young music prodigy goes missing from a hotel room that was the site of an infamous murder-suicide fifteen years earlier, renewing trauma for a bridesmaid who witnessed the first crime and rallying an eccentric cast of characters during a snowstorm that traps everyone on the grounds.