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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"political satire"”.
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Marionettes and metaphor : political satire in the photographs of Tina Modotti
… as relatively straightforward social and political constructs. This thesis shall investigate Modotti's placement within Mexican post-revolutionary political and social drama and consider her cultural and aesthetic production as expressions of class, gender, national and artistic identity. …
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Mobilizing Affect: The Rhetoric and Circulation of Popular Political Satire News Shows
… dissertation offers an analysis of how popular political satire news shows use humor, emotion, and circulation to critically respond to emergent exigencies and power dynamics. This project is grounded in the primary research question: how do these shows, through the affective processes of …
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Funny in a Man's World: Women Comedians' Use of Political Satire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner
<p>Satire and politics are typically considered masculine fields within the societal constructs of the United States. Wanda Sykes and Cecily Strong both navigate these male-dominated worlds with their addresses at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. This analysis views these addresses through …
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A Comedy for the Rich, a Tragedy for the Poor: Political Satire in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games
… the true horrors of totalitarianism by means of political satire and effective polemic. It analyses and evaluates the main character’s role in the social criticism through the eyes of the narrator and heroine, Katniss Everdeen, thus raising questions about the injustice forced on the poor through …
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Political Satire and Political News: Entertaining, Accidentally Reporting or Both? The Case of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TDS)
… (primary text) work as a vehicle of televised political news?" and "How does TDS' audience decode its text?" The research identified flaws in the existing literature and the limits inherent to any similar endeavors. It became apparent that, due to TDS' comedic discourse and its host's political …
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Participatory effects of political satire revisited in the age of digital media : the role of hard news, political expression and social media
This study examines the participatory effects of political satire, specifically late-night talk shows, in the age of digital media. Based on the O-S-R-O-R (background Orientation-Stimulus-Reasoning-outcome Orientation-Response) model of communication effects, this study theorizes and tests …
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A group of satirical sculptures examining social and political paradoxes in the South African context
… was to work within the tradition of social and political satire. Strict definitions of satire were to be expanded to include both comedy and tragedy. By satirising particular stupidities, abuses and "evils of all kind" within South African society, I hoped to address the same in a broader …
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Democracy in Print: The Literature of Persuasion in Jacksonian America, 1815--1840
… others to follow. After a general discussion of political culture in the early 19th century, I begin with an analysis of the literature emanating from the War of 1812, the key event in shaping both the political reputation of the leading politicians, and the attitudes of the electorate that …
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Les comedies-ballets de Moliere: genre de transition
… intentions, it took the form of social and political satire. Due to the great popularity of the spectacle, all of the leading artists, such as Benserade, Luny, and Corneille, at one time or another during the course of their careers, were commissioned to compose a ballet de cour, and Moliere …
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Satire as Journalism: The Daily Show and American Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
… for both journalistic scrutiny and comedic satire. Press and speech protections that James Madison and Thomas Jefferson wrote into the Constitution have served journalists and satirists - and those who work both camps, such as Ben Franklin, Mark Twain and H.L Mencken - during critical times …