The Sanity of Satire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sanity of Satire write by Al Gini. This book was released on 2020. The Sanity of Satire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Political humor and satire are, perhaps, as old as comedy itself, and they are crucial to our society and collective sense of self. In a poignant, pithy, but not a ponderous manner, Al Gini and Abraham Singer delve into satire's history to rejoice in its triumphs and watch its development from ancient graffiti to the latest late night TV talk show.
The Sanity of Satire
The Sanity of Satire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sanity of Satire write by Al Gini. This book was released on 2020-10-07. The Sanity of Satire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Political humor and satire are, perhaps, as old as comedy itself, and they are crucial to our society and our collective sense of self. Satire is confrontational. It’s about pushback, dissent, discord, disappointment, and demonstrating the absurdity of the status quo. This book is an attempt to explore how these aspects of satire help secure our sanity. Aristotle famously said that humans are naturally political animals. We need political community to flourish and live good lives. But politics also entails unpopular decisions, oppression, and power struggles. Satire is a vehicle through which we reflect on and challenge the irrational, incomprehensible, and intolerable nature of our lives without becoming totally despondent or depressed. In a poignant, pithy, but not ponderous manner, Al Gini and Abraham Singer delve into the history of satire to rejoice in its triumphs and watch its development from ancient graffiti to the latest late-night TV talk show.
Crazy Funny
Crazy Funny - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crazy Funny write by Lisa A. Guerrero. This book was released on 2019-10-28. Crazy Funny available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the ways in which contemporary works of black satire make black racial madness legible in ways that allow us to see the connections between suffering from racism and suffering from mental illness. Showing how an understanding of racism as a root cause of mental and emotional instability complicates the ways in which we think about racialized identity formation and the limits of socially accepted definitions of (in)sanity, it concentrates on the unique ability of the genre of black satire to make knowable not only general qualities of mental illness that are so often feared or ignored, but also how structures of racism contribute a specific dimension to how we understand the different ways in which people of color, especially black people, experience and integrate mental instability into their own understandings of subjecthood. Drawing on theories from ethnic studies, popular culture studies, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and trauma theory to offer critical textual analyses of five different instances of new millennial black satire in television, film, and literature – the television show Chappelle’s Show, the Spike Lee film Bamboozled, the novel The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty, the novels Erasure and I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett, and the television show Key & Peele – Crazy Funny presents an account of the ways in which contemporary black satire rejects the boundaries between sanity and insanity as a way to animate the varied dimensions of being a racialized subject in a racist society.
The Borowitz Report
The Borowitz Report - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Borowitz Report write by Andy Borowitz. This book was released on 2010-05-11. The Borowitz Report available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prepare to be shocked. From the man The Wall Street Journal hailed as a "Swiftean satirist" comes the most shocking book ever written! The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers, by award-winning fake journalist Andy Borowitz, contains page after page of "news stories" too hot, too controversial, too -- yes, shocking -- for the mainstream press to handle. Sample the groundbreaking reporting from the news organization whose motto is "Give us thirty minutes -- we'll waste it."
Satire for Sanity
Satire for Sanity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Satire for Sanity write by Allaina Kilby. This book was released on 2014. Satire for Sanity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
