The latest in a line of Victoriana ‘queer’ stories leaves Stuart Kelly wondering if it is anything more than an imaginative re-fleshing of a thesis ...
Park City • A satire about preparing for war, a chronicle of Black farmers, a love story from India, a profile of a trailblazing Iranian woman and a dissection of America’s true-crime ...
A Good House review — an excruciatingly funny satire on race, class and house prices on facebook (opens in a new window) A Good House review — an excruciatingly funny satire on race ...
Later comic strips such as Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” are indebted to Mr. Feiffer’s brand of acerbic wit and literate satire. “No other cartoon in strip format was dealing on a regular ...
The entire inauguration extravaganza — from Melania Trump’s hat to Elon Musk’s straight-arm salute — could be viewed as a grand political satire if it did not portend such tragic consequences.
In effect, then, we might argue that the reason Trump satire falls flat is because it’s not “punching up”. But while this asymmetry of voice and credibility is ­arguably true of Left and ...
Satire. The Danish government did not offer to buy the United States after Donald Trump’s statements about Greenland. The message paraphrases segments of a satirical text from 2019.
Amy Jephta stakes a strong claim to being one of South Africa’s leading contemporary playwrights South African playwright Amy Jephta’s latest is a trenchant racial and social satire about ...
Or are we telling the truth? And by now, how would we know?” Before he felt called to satire, young Jules devoured the Depression-era newspaper comics and dreamed of drawing adventure strips ...
Dr Andrew Chrystall’s research unfolds from the aesthetic-historical and interdisciplinary approach of Marshall McLuhan, the Toronto School of Communication, and Media Ecology. His research portfolio ...
Much like missiles, satire requires precision. But this year’s Sundance Grand Jury prize winner, the “War On Terror” satire Atropia, turns out to be a lot shaggier than that—much like the explosives ...