... be bitingly satirical, as in Coming Shortly (1954), a burlesque of a cinema trailer advertising that fabulous film that is always ‘Coming Shortly’, and The Bottom of The Barrel (1958) a skit on various styles of professional filmmaking. Similarly, the impulse to turn...

... of materials that includes travel writing, mock epics and verse satires, magazines, and cartoons, such as Thomas Nast’s iconic Uncle Sam drawings. Columbia Lady Liberty Smith Rosenberg Carroll allegory Civil War Giles Paul Harper’s Weekly magazine Nast Thomas Arbuthnot John Law is a Bottomless Pit...

...This chapter tries to reverse the assumption that the popular early modern genre of anatomical satire developed purely as a reaction against, and should therefore be understood antithetically to, the early modern discipline of human dissection. The Fabrica's title-page shows...

... Evans Robert Paramount Rubin Stanley African Americans representation of King Martin Luther MK ULTRA United Artists Universal Studios Baudrillard Jean Cambridge Godfrey Burke Walter Franz Eduard Gestapo Alfred Hitchcock James Bond Graham Greene Postmodernism Ian Fleming Camp Satire...

... imagination. Its central focus is on depictions of divine laughter at opposite ends of the spectrum of ancient Greek culture, in Homeric epic and Lucianic satire. What does it mean to imagine gods who can laugh at and/or with one another, as well as at and/or with humans? Is such laughter a marker of distance...

...This chapter explores Mel Brooks’s transformation of Il’ia Il’f and Evgenii Petrov’s 1928 novel about three men chasing a stash of jewels hidden in a set of dining room chairs into the American “buddy film” genre. Brooks adapts the novel’s satire, grounded in the specific realia of the Soviet New...

... while ensuring that his satires of war and sexuality made their way to the screen, revealing that in addition to his prolific comedic imagination, Sturges was often aided by the very body that was alleged to be censoring him. Breen Joseph I Fonda Henry heroines Lady Eve The 1941 marriage depictions...

... the critical reception of his films and thus proved to be a precursor to what would come to be identified as “auteur” criticism. This leads to a second question: how did the theme of public spectacle in both Sturges’s personal/professional life and in his films that take a satirical...

...Graham’s written attacks on imperial abuses, particularly the abortive ‘Jameson Raid’ in South Africa, sponsored by Cecil Rhodes. Graham’s satirical attacks on racism, particularly in a piece entitled ‘Bloody Niggers’. The controversy surrounding Graham’s pronouncement on political assassination...

... the Wilkite critique, for all its political pertinence, was counteracted by the licentiousness that accompanied it. In Wilkite satire, the language of sodomy provides one means of projecting unrecuperable forms of material excess onto others, while retaining its own libidinous forms of exchange. state Sterne...

... of Mirth Kidd William reprinting Tom and Jerry Forrester Alfred Forrester Charles Comic Magazine Figaro in London lithography Dorrington George Meadows Kenny Slader Samuel Peterloo Massacre comic annuals periodical illustration almanacs satire caricature parody The Comic Offering...

... to write satire, which is basically that there was an opening in satire. Aratus Cicero didactic genre Epicureanism Epicurus On Nature Nicander poetry Aristophanes Henderson Jeffrey Horace politics satire Apuleius humor novel ancient Petronius parody genre allusions literary Empdocles...

...’. It reveals that Mansfield’s enchantment with Dickens produced two effects of influence: first, ‘the presence of numerous Dickensian stylistic devices in her writing’, particularly their ‘many shared satiric emphases, especially their critiques of the societies in which they lived’, and second the revival...

... that had accrued over the course of the sixteenth century. These statutes, which turned subjects into unintentional lawbreakers, found their way into Shakespeare’s comedies, like A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Comedy of Errors, and John Donne’s satires. In parodying...

...Chapter 3 examines John Donne’s ‘Satyre V’, which applies the social and ethical reforming energy of the satiric genre to the need for system-wide legal reform in England. The piece is a tribute to his employer, the Lord Keeper Thomas Egerton, who was lauded for his integrity and commitment...

... Oliver Pope Alexander Richardson Samuel Spectator Steele Richard Swift Jonathan Tatler Churchill John Duke of Marlborough Dublin Spectator Examiner Review of the Affairs of France Review Defoe satire parody and irony Dublin Weekly Journal Dennis John Intelligencer Motte Benjamin Sheridan...

...Brunel’s burlesque shorts have received a great deal of attention from curators and academics due to their satire on the film industry. Made on the fringes of the industry, in a liminal space between amateur film and the professional, these short films are Brunel’s most personal works and have been...

... of utopia, to Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe which tries to articulate the interactions between personhood, autonomy, and surveillance. Finally, it considers the satire of utopia enacted first by Swift, who, in book III of Gulliver’s Travels (1726), seemed to be responding to Bacon’s House...