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What is satire? [videorecording].

Contributor(s): Publication details: South Fremantle, Western Australia : Contemporary Arts Media, [2006].Description: 1 videodisc (31 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.87 WHA 2006
Summary: Students review traditional targets for satire - pompous, domineering and hypocritical people ; social, political and religious institutions - and traditional uses of satire - to amuse, criticise or persuade with varying degrees of subtlety. Songs, essays, poems and works of fiction drawn from many periods illuminate the origins, development and results of this genre. Satirists such as Swift, Shaw, Woody Allen and Dorothy Parker are presented.
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Media Resources Taylor's Library-TU 808.87 WHA 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) DVD 1 Available GENLS,GENLS,02,GR 1000526746

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Students review traditional targets for satire - pompous, domineering and hypocritical people ; social, political and religious institutions - and traditional uses of satire - to amuse, criticise or persuade with varying degrees of subtlety. Songs, essays, poems and works of fiction drawn from many periods illuminate the origins, development and results of this genre. Satirists such as Swift, Shaw, Woody Allen and Dorothy Parker are presented.

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