In Sullivan's Travels, which confronts the tension between art and commerce, the eponymous director-hero, who hankers after social significance à la Frank Capra, is an object of Horatian satire.

The Literature of Satire is an accessible but sophisticated and wide-ranging study of satire from the classics to the present in plays, novels and the press as well as in verse. In it Charles Knight ...

a class satire set against a collapsed society, shows how the end of the world can feel right around the corner. When ...

From the Fall 2004 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 21. Satire, caricature and parody are forms of art that rely on blurring the line between truth and outrageousness. Below are suggestions ...

Clare and Colin begin their twelve-part series on satire with the big question: what is satire? Where did it come from? Is it a genre, or more of a style, or an attitude? They then plunge into their ...

Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder's The Curse brings uncomfortable humor to the forefront. But its greatest strength lies in its ...

“An Act of God,” the saucy religious satire running at Aurora’s Copley Theatre, finds the Almighty in a chatty mood. To a point. Written by Emmy Award-winning writer/producer David Javerbaum ...

It is certainly funny in places, and droll in others; it is occasionally even stinging in its satire of show-business ... or perhaps he means to express it by example, of the creeping dullness ...

That account includes a similar satire disclaimer. It's an example of what could be called "stolen satire," where stories written as satire and presented that way originally are reposted in a way ...

Somewhere, the aforementioned Spanish director behind “The Exterminating Angel” is nodding wryly at the idea of a satire about G-7 leaders set in a peat bog thick with mummified zombies.

Cate Blanchett stars as a lusty, preening stateswomen in a geopolitical satire from the experimental filmmaker Guy Maddin. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...