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Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. [1]
Satire can be traced back throughout history; wherever organized government, or social categories have existed, so has satire. [5] The oldest example that has survived until today is Aristophanes. In his time, satire targeted top politicians, like Cleon, [6] and religion, at the time headed by Zeus.
American History X satirizes race/racism in a contemporary setting; They Live; Land of the Dead, a satire of post-9/11 America state and of the Bush administration; The Wicker Man, a satire on cults and religion; The Great Dictator, a satire on Adolf Hitler; Monty Python's Life of Brian, a satire on miscommunication, religion and Christianity
Film or television satire may be of the political, religious, or social variety.Works using satire are often seen as controversial or taboo in nature, with topics such as race, class, system, violence, sex, war, and politics, criticizing or commenting on them, typically under the disguise of other genres including, but not limited to, comedies, dramas, parodies, fantasies and/or science fiction.
Every significant politician and political act had satires to attack it. Few of these were parodic satires, but parodic satires, too, emerged in political and religious debate. So omnipresent and powerful was satire in the Augustan age that more than one literary history has referred to it as the "Age of satire" in literature. [citation needed]
"Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." This phrase was first used during an emergency meeting of the CCP on 7 August 1927, at the beginning of the Chinese Civil War. [47] "All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful."
The claim originated months earlier as satire. The 81-year-old actor has no connection to a suspended account using his name, his publicist said. The claim originated months earlier as satire.
A strong relationship between the arts and politics, particularly between various kinds of art and power, occurs across historical epochs and cultures.As they respond to contemporaneous events and politics, the arts take on political as well as social dimensions, becoming themselves a focus of controversy and even a force of political as well as social change.