...Annalee Newitz Duke University Press 2000 3. Newitz 4/24/00 11:23 AM Page 59 What Makes Things Cheesy? SATIRE, MULTINATIONALISM, AND B-MOVIES The secret...

... satirical hardboiled detective novel, The Miracle Merchant (2003), and Abderrahmane Sissako’s film Bamako (2006), my article analyzes one example of how African writers transfigure the crime genre to engage the epistemological crisis provoked by neoliberal governance formations. © 2013 Duke University...

... of provincial alienation, to anthemic satires of Cold War apocalypse, to voyeuristic detachment in the face of urban decay, to critiques of inner-city racism, the punks’ city was both a scene of violence and of potential safety. During the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the anarchic growl of punk music...

... Chang Heavy Industries seek to articulate a prosocial role for the arts in the shadow of the DMZ, these collectives also complicate and satirize an international desire to reshape the border zone into a symbol of reconciliation. This article shows how the arts can not only foster but also trouble...

...After Globalism Writing Group This essay discusses some of the exigencies and potentialities of contemporary writing performed in but not entirely of an academic idiom. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 academic publishing satire poetry the Right Once upon a time...

... processes that are incipient in the present in order to confront them from a defamiliarized perspec- tive.11 This critical method is intensified in works of satirical science fic- tion such as Black No More and Futureland, which warp contemporaneous...

... for their comedy, their defense against charges of racism is that no one group is singled out but that everyone is “fair game.” The text on one of their DVD covers, for example, declares that it contains “Bolivia presented by one man,” promising satiric...

... Painted by Themselves) in 1852 and Tipos y costumbres de la isla de Cuba (Types and Customs of the Island of Cuba) in 1881, to which he contributed more than eighty illustrations. Many of his lithographs and paintings (if not his satirical cartoons) were accepted...

... choices pointedly criticize the British incapability to experience cross- oriented Jews cultural encounter beyond the frame of their own preconceptions. Bertie, the suitor for Judith’s unhappy consolation marriage, constitutes both a appeared as satirical...

... use and environmental planning. Alex Rivera is a New York–based digital media artist and filmmaker. He has been a Sundance Fellow and Rockefeller Fellow and is the recipient of a Silver Hugo award. His work addresses concerns of the Latino commu­ nity through a language of humor, satire...

... Nathaniel West’s mad Horatio Alger travesty, A Cool Million” (149). The extreme satire in Black Empire contradicts Bryant’s thesis that the hallmark of the writers of the Harlem Renaissance is a recognition of enough “progress” made on “the whole color issue” that lynching is no longer such a pressing...

... to the lofty transcendence of official discourse. It is a tactic that has seen a proliferation of inventive satire, quips, and clever repartee on the Chinese Internet, including commentary by the celebrity writer Han Han, who has distinguished himself as something of a leading exemplar through his...

... follows in the tradition of the satirical essay—even alluding to Swift's “Modest Proposal” in its title—to target a specific group of people who continue to be very much a plague during the entire pandemic: antimaskers. In an exercise of speculative cheekiness, she satirizes this group of people who have...

....” It is a satire with bite, calibrated (at least at this point in time) to the national-popular. Get Out , in other words, is also a symptom of the clash between the world picture of the globalizing culture industries — the planetary bottom line — and what Denise Ferreira da Silva has termed the “global idea...

... entitled “Where Shall the Baboo Go?”5 Baboo (or babu) English eventu- ally became the butt of Kipling’s satire and the object of colonial lexicogra- phies, such as Col. Henry Yule’s famous Hobson Jobson; post-independence...

... of self- importance and high expectations—guaranteed upward mobility, high- level employment, participation in their countries’ political and economic life—that were often satirized by contemporary intellectuals. “How can they all be future leaders? And who will do the work?” the narrator asked...

..., television, and the media event.Big Shot is a satire about the spectacular comedy funeral of Hollywood bigwig Don Tyler (Donald Sutherland) in the Forbidden City — Tyler had been in Bei- jing to remake Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor (1987). Regarding...

... of National Emigration Day, Mohamed Take Your Suitcase seems to align closely with the FLN’s stance on emigration. A searing satire of colonial and postcolonial racism, the play was explicitly aimed at persuading Algerian immigrants to leave...

... president’s malapropisms. Seconds later, we became grimly straitlaced. Gone were satire, the mainstay of left and lib- eral criticism, and irony, commonplace of the postmodern condition: even sarcasm, bitter pill of the postpunk generation. In their place were trauma, intensified and perpetuated...

.... Charting the disturbances and dislocations of a conflict at once immediate, fully mediatized, and radically distanced, they straddle uneasily the generic divide between fiction, memoir, blog- ging, embedded reporting, and polemic.15 Like the satirical pastiches of news media on The Daily Show...