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Supergirl scorned: lessons about young femininity in an Australian television satire

open access: yesCritical Studies in Education, 2010
In this paper I explore the popular Australian television character of Ja'mie King – a teenage private school girl created and performed by male comedian Chris Lilley. I conceptualise Lilley's satire as a public pedagogy of young femininity. My reading of his satire responds to recent feminist scholarship around young femininities and ‘girl power ...
Charles, Claire E.
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The American Tradition of Social Satire in South Park Television Series [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Journal of English Studies, 2018
The main objective of this work is to show how the authors of the animated series South Park use controversial humor to satirize people, habits, ideologies and mindsets within the American society. Although South Park is made in a cartoon style,
Przemysław Komsa
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Satirizing News Media, Changing Taiwan’s Feelings: The Night Night Show with Brian Tseng’s Adaptation of the American Satire News Format

open access: yesJournalism and Media, 2023
The US television program The Daily Show has inspired creative talents worldwide to adapt the American political satire news formats to their own political environments. One example is The Night Night Show, hosted by Brian Tseng between 2018 and 2020 and
Muyun Zhou
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The precursors of infotainment? Debate and talk shows on Televisión Española (1980-1989)

open access: yesCommunication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2022
The theory formulated to date indicates that political infotainment programs arrived in Spain in a widespread manner in the 1990s with the rise of private television channels.
Virginia Martín-Jiménez   +2 more
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The Liberalization Process of Satire in Postauthoritarian Democracies: Potentials and Limits in Mexico’s Network Television

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2021
The potential of television satire, an important means of denunciation of abuses of power and incompetence by politicians, can be limited in post-authoritarian democracies, where previous arrangements between political elites and media may hinder what ...
Martín Echeverría, Frida V. Rodelo
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”Satire Junge SATIREEEE”: Nachrichtenparodien in Memes und deren Aushandlung im Kontext des Web 2.0.

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2020
Satire has been present in various different media throughout the centuries. With the rise of television, satire has made its way onto TV screens via various outlets including news parodies. As these TV shows began using social media, new forms of satire
Fabia Hultin Morger
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The fifth paw of the Russian government in Victor Pelevin's novel "Generation P"

open access: yesOpera slavica, 2022
This article deals mainly with the portrayal of state power in Victor Pelevin's novel "Generation P". Victor Pelevin is one of the most popular postmodern and contemporary Russian writers, and his books are among the most read and translated.
Vanessa Massayová
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Saturday Night Candidates: Comedic Brands on Saturday Night Live During the 2016 Presidential Election

open access: yesCinergie, 2021
NBC’s Saturday Night Live (SNL, 1975-) is an institution for political humor on the American television. The key for many successful impersonations seems to be hiring popular comedians who build heavily on their own identity and stardom, exploiting the ...
Matteo Marinello
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Parodic satire of NO-DO in «Polònia»: Iconoclasm and visual re-framing of the Spanish (far)right-wing discourse

open access: yesCommunication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2021
As cultural content, Polònia constitutes an unusual case. We are dealing with one of the highest audience-share television programmes in Catalonia in recent years.
José-Luis Valhondo
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Rhetorical Fantasy-Theme Criticism of "Disappointed Adolescent, Euphoria in the Moment" on Pooorblack's Instagram Page [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات رسانه‌های نوین, 2023
In the present era, and in Baudrillard's terms, the "era of simulation" has seen postmodern aesthetics permeate various aspects of art and media. Authenticity and meaning have been subjected to satire, with hyperreality taking center stage.
hafize mahdian
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