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12. Deconstructing Dad: Satire and Hegemonic Masculinity in Mainstream Television

Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings, 2016
What’s sarcastic, droll, brightly coloured, watched by millions and enforces a hegemonic masculine identity? No, not a sports centre update. Family Guy and American Dad!, along with other mainstream popular television shows, feeds into extreme notions of masculinity by depicting humorous macho images that emulate physical strength, aggressiveness ...
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“SCTV now begins its programming day”: Television, Satire, and the Archive

2019
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Pacific camp: satire, silliness (and seriousness) on New Zealand television

Media, Culture & Society, 2005
How camp has been defined, to whom it ‘belongs’, its politics and its pleasures have been the subject of vigorous debate since the 1960s. Although the bulk of discourse on camp has been associated with queer scholarship, camp is a useful framework for looking at Pacific Island popular culture in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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“Entertain and Subvert”: Fox Television, Satirical Comedy, and The Simpsons

2012
In a segment of The Simpsons episode “Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington” (March 2003), we see the Simpson family gathered around the television watching Krusty the Clown, who is running for a seat in Congress, engage in a televised debate with his opponent on the Fox News channel. The Fox News anchor begins the segment by saying, “Welcome to Fox News, your
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Television Satire, Democracy and the Decay of Public Language: John Clarke's Verbal Caricature

Media International Australia, 2006
This paper examines the contributions of John Clarke to the field of political satire through his interviews with straight-man Bryan Dawe on ABC TV's The 7.30 Report. Clarke's work represents one of the last vestiges of what was once a vigorous satiric tradition in TV comedy, specifically the practice of political caricature.
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Laughing with / at the national self: Greek television satire and the politics of self-disparagement

Social Semiotics, 2017
ABSTRACTThis study engages with the cultural consequences of the self-disparaging politics of television satire. It focuses on an emblematic program of Greek television fiction, Oi Afthairetoi (MEGA channel, 1989–1991) and the ways it both constructs and ridicules a particular version of the Greek self, the “Neoellinas”.
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Supergirl scorned: lessons about young femininity in an Australian television satire

Critical 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 ...
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Syria under the Spotlight: Television satire that is revolutionary in form, reformist in content

Arab Media & Society, 2008
Picture the scene. We are inside Syria’s monolithic Education Ministry witnessing a highly charged committee meeting, convened to tackle one of the country’s most entrenched problems: overcrowding at state universities. All too willing to apply an absurdly cold logic in the matter, a logic that is likely familiar to Syrian viewers at home, the ...
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Prime-Time Television 'Fable Families': Political and Social Satire for Segmented Audiences

Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media & Composite Cultures, 2000
(2000). Prime-Time Television 'Fable Families': Political and Social Satire for Segmented Audiences. Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media & Composite Cultures: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 105-118.
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Trump and Satire: America’s Carnivalesque President and His War on Television Comedians

2018
This chapter suggests that President Donald Trump exhibits a “carnivalesque” comic persona and behavior which have instigated a war with America’s comedians on television. This study examines Trump’s use of comedy as a means of attack, his reactions to comic attacks, and the wide range of satire undermining him.
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