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This style is Juvenalian satire: this purpose, the evacuation of fear and anger through the acting out of frightful fantasies. Kubrick has flushed a monster from its psychic lair—the universal fear of nuclear accident—and then proceeded to feed and nourish it, letting it perform its worst before your eyes.
Reminiscent of George Bernard Shaw’s MAJOR BARBARA, though lacking the play’s satirical wit and humor, OUT OF THIS WORLD is the story of Harry Beech’s falling out with his father Robert, the...
- The Simpsons (1989 onwards) The Simpsons may not seem like a hotbed for satire at first glance, but it deftly satirizes everyday life. Its satire takes on family, TV, religion, politics, and the American lifestyle in general.
- South Park (1997 onwards) This animated sitcom from Comedy Central is well known for its profanity, dark and surreal humor, and its no-holds-barred criticism of controversial issues.
- Dr. Strangelove (1964) This black comedy, directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union.
- Fight Club (1999) Based on the 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club takes aim at toxic masculinity, consumerism, capitalism, and a certain nihilistic Gen-X point of view.
Out of This World is a 1945 American romantic comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake and Diana Lynn. The picture was a satire on the Frank Sinatra "bobby soxer" cult.
Satire is the use of humor, irony, sarcasm, or ridicule to criticize something or someone. Public figures, such as politicians, are often the subject of satire, but satirists can take aim at other targets as well—from societal conventions to government policies.
satire, artistic form, chiefly literary and dramatic, in which human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, parody, caricature, or other methods, sometimes with an intent to inspire social reform. Satire is a protean term.
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Summary. Although scholars generally agree that satire cannot be defined in a categorical or exhaustive way, there is a consensus regarding its major features: satire is a mode, rather than a genre; it attacks historically specific targets, who are real; it is an intentional and purposeful literary form; its targets deserve ridicule on the ...
