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In a tongue-in-cheek style peppered with the world's best one-liners from the last century, The Offensive Art recounts the acrimonious and often perilous cat-and-mouse games between political satirists and their censors and inhibitors through the last century in America (especially FDR, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush II and in wartime), Britain (especially Churchill, Thatcher, Blair and the Royals), Germany (Hitler to the present), Russia (Stalin to the present), China (Mao to the present), India (from the Raj on), and the Middle East (from 1920s Egypt to today). Freedman focuses on the role and transformation of satire during shifts from authoritarian to democratic systems in such places as South Africa, Argentina, and Eastern Europe. He surveys the state of satire throughout the world today, identifying the most dangerous countries for practitioners of the offensive art, and presents his findings as to the political efficacy of satire in provoking change.
In a tongue-in-cheek style peppered with the world's best one-liners from the last century, The Offensive Art recounts the acrimonious and often perilous cat-and-mouse games between political satirists and their censors and inhibitors through the last century in America (especially FDR, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush II and in wartime), Britain (especially Churchill, Thatcher, Blair and the Royals), Germany (Hitler to the present), Russia (Stalin to the present), China (Mao to the present), India (from the Raj on), and the Middle East (from 1920s Egypt to today). Freedman focuses on the role and transformation of satire during shifts from authoritarian to democratic systems in such places as South Africa, Argentina, and Eastern Europe. He surveys the state of satire throughout the world today, identifying the most dangerous countries for practitioners of the offensive art, and presents his findings as to the political efficacy of satire in provoking change.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Satirists and Censors
PART I:(ALMOST) ANYTHING GOES: POLITICAL SATIRE IN AMERICA AND BRITAIN
1. Puncturing the Imperial Presidency: FDR to George W. Bush
2. Censorship, American Style
3. Britain: From Bulldogs to Poodles
4. Censorship, British Style
PART II: A DANGEROUS GAME: POLITICAL SATIRE IN AUTHORITARIAN SYSTEMS
5. Whats Funny About Hitler?
6. Stalin and Mao: No Laughing Matter
7. Imperial Ironies: India and the Raj
8. The Middle East: Raging Against Cartoons
Conclusion: Still More Satire And Why We Need It
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2008 |
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Genre: | Importe, Politikwissenschaften |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | Gebunden |
ISBN-13: | 9780313356001 |
ISBN-10: | 0313356009 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Freedman, Leonard |
Hersteller: | Praeger |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 240 x 161 x 16 mm |
Von/Mit: | Leonard Freedman |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 30.11.2008 |
Gewicht: | 0,493 kg |
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Satirists and Censors
PART I:(ALMOST) ANYTHING GOES: POLITICAL SATIRE IN AMERICA AND BRITAIN
1. Puncturing the Imperial Presidency: FDR to George W. Bush
2. Censorship, American Style
3. Britain: From Bulldogs to Poodles
4. Censorship, British Style
PART II: A DANGEROUS GAME: POLITICAL SATIRE IN AUTHORITARIAN SYSTEMS
5. Whats Funny About Hitler?
6. Stalin and Mao: No Laughing Matter
7. Imperial Ironies: India and the Raj
8. The Middle East: Raging Against Cartoons
Conclusion: Still More Satire And Why We Need It
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2008 |
---|---|
Genre: | Importe, Politikwissenschaften |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | Gebunden |
ISBN-13: | 9780313356001 |
ISBN-10: | 0313356009 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Freedman, Leonard |
Hersteller: | Praeger |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 240 x 161 x 16 mm |
Von/Mit: | Leonard Freedman |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 30.11.2008 |
Gewicht: | 0,493 kg |