A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America, Ted Gournelos, Viveca Greene
Автор: Gillingham Paul Название: Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in Mexico ISBN: 0826360076 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826360076 Издательство: Eurospan Рейтинг: Цена: 8283 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Since the 2000 elections toppled the PRI, over 150 Mexican journalists have been murdered. Failed assassinations and threats have silenced thousands more. Such high levels of violence and corruption question one of the fundamental assumptions of modern societies, that democracy and press freedom are inextricably intertwined. In this collection historians, media experts, political scientists, cartoonists, and journalists reconsider censorship, state-press relations, news coverage, and readership to retell the history of Mexico's press.
Описание: <em>Dark Arcadia</em> attempts an objective reassessment of the controversial works and life of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Ignoring secondary accounts and various received truths, Gavin Callaghan goes back to the weird texts themselves, and follows where Lovecraft leads him: into an arcane world of parental giganticism and inverted classicism, in which Lovecraft's parental obsessions were twisted into the all-powerful cosmic monsters of his imaginary cosmology.
Автор: Yates Название: Nestroy: Satire and Parody in Viennese Popular Comedy ISBN: 0521168392 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521168397 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4337 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Johann Nepomuk Nestroy (1801–1862), for a quarter of a century the dominant actor on the popular Viennese stage, was the author of over eighty dramatic works, all but one of them comedies in the local Viennese tradition. It was only in the twentieth century that Nestroy's influence, above all as a satirist and master of language, was recognised. In this 1972 publication, the first book in English on Nestroy, Professor Yates centres his discussion of the possen (theatrical comedies) on the dominant comic elements of satire and parody, which are considered in close relation to the sources. He examines in detail five of Nestroy's best-known plays, considering them in relation to their Viennese setting and providing an introduction to the history and conditions of Viennese popular theatre from the early eighteenth century up to Nestroy's times, including an assessment of its relationship to other traditions of popular drama.
Автор: Gilmore Название: Satire ISBN: 0415480817 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415480819 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 16333 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What is satire? How can we define it? Is it a weapon for radical change or fundamentally conservative? Is satire funny or cruel? Does it always need a target or victim? Combining thematic, theoretical and historical approaches, John T. Gilmore introduces and investigates the tradition of satire from classical models through to the present day. In a lucid and engaging style, Gilmore explores: the moral politics of satire whether satire is universal, historically or geographically limited how satire translates across genres and media the boundaries of free speech and legitimacy. Using examples from ancient Egypt to Charlie Hebdo, from European traditions of formal verse satire to imaginary voyages and alternative universes, newspaper cartoons and YouTube clips, from the Caribbean to China, this comprehensive volume should be of interest to students and scholars of literature, media and cultural studies as well as politics and philosophy.
Описание: Winner of the 2016 Religious Communication Association Book of the Year Award
In God Mocks, Terry Lindvall ventures into the muddy and dangerous realm of religious satire, chronicling its evolution from the biblical wit and humor of the Hebrew prophets through the Roman Era and the Middle Ages all the way up to the present. He takes the reader on a journey through the work of Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales, Cervantes, Jonathan Swift, and Mark Twain, and ending with the mediated entertainment of modern wags like Stephen Colbert. Lindvall finds that there is a method to the madness of these mockers: true satire, he argues, is at its heart moral outrage expressed in laughter. But there are remarkable differences in how these religious satirists express their outrage.The changing costumes of religious satirists fit their times. The earthy coarse language of Martin Luther and Sir Thomas More during the carnival spirit of the late medieval period was refined with the enlightened wit of Alexander Pope. The sacrilege of Monty Python does not translate well to the ironic voices of Soren Kierkegaard. The religious satirist does not even need to be part of the community of faith. All he needs is an eye and ear for the folly and chicanery of religious poseurs. To follow the paths of the satirist, writes Lindvall, is to encounter the odd and peculiar treasures who are God's mouthpieces. In God Mocks, he offers an engaging look at their religious use of humor toward moral ends.
Автор: Ezell Название: Humor and Satire on Contemporary Television ISBN: 1472457722 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472457721 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23595 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines contemporary American animated humor, focusing on popular animated television shows in order to explore the ways in which they engage with American culture and history, employing a peculiarly American way of using humor to discuss important cultural issues. With attention to the work of American humorists, such as the Southwest humorists, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, and Kurt Vonnegut, and the question of the extent to which modern animated satire shares the qualities of earlier humor, particularly the use of setting, the carnivalesque, collective memory, racial humor, and irony, Humor and Satire on Contemporary Television concentrates on a particular strand of American humor: the use of satire to expose the gap between the American ideal and the American experience. Taking up the notion of ’The Great American Joke’, the author examines the discursive humor of programmes such as The Simpsons, South Park , Family Guy , King of the Hill, Daria, American Dad!, The Boondocks, The PJs and Futurama . A study of how animated television programmes offer a new discourse on a very traditional strain of American humor, this book will appeal to scholars and students of popular culture, television and media studies, American literature and visual studies, and contemporary humor and satire.
Автор: Gilmore, John T. (university Of Warwick, Uk) Название: Satire ISBN: 0415480825 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415480826 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 4173 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
What is satire? How can we define it? Is it a weapon for radical change or fundamentally conservative? Is satire funny or cruel? Does it always need a target or victim? Combining thematic, theoretical and historical approaches, John T. Gilmore introduces and investigates the tradition of satire from classical models through to the present day. In a lucid and engaging style, Gilmore explores:
the moral politics of satire
whether satire is universal, historically or geographically limited
how satire translates across genres and media
the boundaries of free speech and legitimacy.
Using examples from ancient Egypt to Charlie Hebdo, from European traditions of formal verse satire to imaginary voyages and alternative universes, newspaper cartoons and YouTube clips, from the Caribbean to China, this comprehensive volume should be of interest to students and scholars of literature, media and cultural studies as well as politics and philosophy.
Автор: Derek C. Maus, James J. Donahue Название: Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights ISBN: 1617039977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617039973 Издательство: Eurospan Рейтинг: Цена: 11561 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From 30 Americans to Angry White Boy, from Bamboozled to The Boondocks, from Chappelle`s Show to The Colored Museum, this collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the flowering of satire and its influence in defining new roles in black identity.
Автор: Derek C. Maus, James J. Donahue Название: Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights ISBN: 1496804562 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496804563 Издательство: Eurospan Рейтинг: Цена: 5867 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the flowering of satire and its influence in defining new roles in black identity. Contributors look at the ways in which contemporary African American satire engages in a broad ranging critique that exposes fraudulent, outdated, absurd, or otherwise damaging mindsets and behaviours.
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