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Fan activism as discursive action: Poaching foreign television series for political satire in China

Discourse, Context & Media, 2021
Abstract Critical discourse analysis (CDA) has proved insightful theoretically to analysing discourses and discursive practices of digital activism, especially political activism online. However, few studies have developed CDA analytical framework to unpack fan activism.
Vincent Guangsheng Huang, Zhuoxiao Xie
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Holocaust Humor, Satire, and Parody on Israeli Television

Jewish Film & New Media, 2015
The politicization of the Holocaust has been reflected in Israeli culture from the late 1940s in cinema, literature, theater, and poetry; in the last several decades, it has also been depicted on Israeli television. Most of the representations of the Holocaust in the first decades of Israel's existence were dramatic. But from the 1990s onward, Israelis
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Laughter and Liability: The Politics of British and Dutch Television Satire

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2009
Contemporary politicians face immense rhetorical and communicative challenges. Performing on the intertwined stages of politics, media (including Internet) and everyday life, they need to master diverse and contrasting repertoires of talk. Political communication research, at present, has ignored the question of how politicians face and experience ...
Stephen Coleman, Anke Kuik, Liesbet Van Zoonen   +2 more
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Televised political satire

2013
In the present study, satire is addressed from a more comprehensive theoretical framework that will not reduce it to a form of literary discourse. Consequently, this paper proposes a bipartite model of satire: the macro and the micro model. While the former sees satire as an institutionalized genre of discourse, the latter perceives it not as a genre ...
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Christmas satire on Swedish television: Christopher’s Christmas Mission

Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 2013
Abstract The short subject argues that the short animated film, Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton/Christopher’s Christmas Mission, which is screened annually on Swedish public service television to the delight of around a million spectators, offers sharp satire criticizing lingering class inequalities in the 1970s, despite decades ...
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Political Satire in Danish Television: Reinventing a Tradition

Popular Communication, 2012
This article highlights political satire as part of a long tradition of satirical sketch comedy in Danish public service television. Since the late 1990s, however, there have been major changes to this entertainment tradition. Taking these developments as a point of departure, this article argues that political satire has been trying to reinvent itself
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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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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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The Musician and the Recording Studio: Satirical Perspectives in Film and Television

2022
This article explores the relationship between musicians and recording studios in a range of satirical screen works. For two decades, there has been a debate about the necessity of professional recording studios amid increasingly sophisticated home recording technology.
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From hostile humour to stereotyping in televised satire Les Guignols de l’Info

Language and Dialogue, 2015
Humour displayed by today’s media targets both individuals and communities and the degree to which it is perceived as a mere humoristic act or, more seriously, as an insult depends on a series of factors which point to: its creator (the goal he/she (c)overtly assumes to reach), its addressee (whether he/she is a witness or a target), and the context in
Gabriela Scripnic, Diana Elena Popa
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