MultiMedia

Mayhem!

Rock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvbFwj__frg
Fey/Palin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=aZjFVUmzuEU&nohtml5=False
https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5EE_OIvI5U&nohtml5=Fals
e
(until 2:45)
Colbert: climate change link:

Today
1) Contemporary Satire Continued: Multimedia Mayhem

Editorial Cartoons
The Onion
Michael Moore
Twitter satire
Ad-busting & subvertising
Grassroots satire on YouTube
2) Preparing for the exam!

Contemporary Satire
Satire produced in the present day or recent past.
Contemporary satire targets current ideas, institutions,
and cultural norms and products, finding expression in a
range of existing and emerging media forms.
Diverse digital media including TV, the Internet, new
media tools, and networked technologies have made
satire easier than ever for the citizen-satirist, the
everyday individual, to engage in satire and have an
audience.

Contemporary Satire
Brian Connery observes a decentralization of authority
in electronic media.
Thus, with the Internet, what we see is the
democratization of satire.
Additionally, our misuse, abuse, and over-reliance on new
technology is frequently a target of contemporary satire.

Editorial Cartoons
Political cartoons promote critical thinking about politics and culture.
They rely on symbolism and caricature (exaggerated, often grotesque
distortion).
They use visual hyperbole/exaggeration to get at an underlying truth,
and they tend to be particularly effective if they use the kind of
symbolism with which the public is familiar (Press). E.g., the elephant
and the donkey are recurrently used to symbolize the Republican and
Democratic parties in the United States.
They range from Horatian to Juvenalian satire.

Palin Endorses Trump by Adam

Zyglis
http://adamzyglis.buffalonews.com/

Michael Ramirez

Marian Kamensky

Chris Rock Hosted the 88th Academy

Tina Fey (1970- )

I think of this whenever someone says to me, "Jerry Lewis says 'women
aren't funny,' or Christopher Hitchens says 'women aren't funny,' or Rick
Fenderman says 'women aren't funny'. Do you have anything to say to
that?"
Yes. We don't fucking care if you like it.
I don't say it out loud, of course, because Jerry Lewis is a great
philanthropist, Hitchens if very sick, and the third guy I made up.
Unless one of these men is my boss, which none of them is, it's irrelevant.
My hat goes off to them. It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude
that just because you don't like something, it is empirically not good. I don't
like Chinese food, but I don't write articles trying to prove it doesn't exist.
Tina Fey - Bossypants

Tina Fey as Sarah Palin

Fey: Satiric Aphorism

Lead her away from acting but not all the way to
Finance.
For Childhood is short a Tiger Flower blooming
Magenta for one day
And Adulthood is long and Dry-Humping in Cars will
wait.

Feys Parody Reverses

Expectations
The proper diction of a prayer is absolutely abandoned:
And when she one day turns on me and calls me a Bitch
in front of Hollister,
Give me the strength, Lord, to yank her directly into a
cab in front of her friends,
For I will not have that Shit. I will not have it.

Michael Moore

Moore uses his camera to employ radical

juxtaposition, visual metaphor, ironic debunking,
selective compression for dramatic effect, a
carefully positioned nave narrator, and other
techniques commonly used in literary satire
(Quintero 4).

Of course, we don't produce The Awful Truth so we can just get you all
to yuck it up.
Satire assumes the audience has a brain. I think [viewers] get where our
heart is at [when they watch Teen Sniper School], and that when we
show a two year-old holding a 9mm [handgun], [they] are able to figure
out that that is the OPPOSITE of what we want in this world.
[I believe] that one of the main functions of satire is to confront the
uncomfortable issues. Satire is not supposed to be the kind of Comedy
Lite you can find on every other channel. Good satire has you laughing
so you don't start crying -- and, in the end, maybe it gets you thinking
about just what the #@*& is going on in this strange world. (Moore)

Moores Facebook Post has a

Postscript
P.S. I'm asking everyone who reads this letter to go here
(http://michaelmoore.com/weareallmuslim), and sign the
following statement: "WE ARE ALL MUSLIM" -- and then
post a photo of yourself holding a homemade sign saying
"WE ARE ALL MUSLIM" on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram
using the hashtag #WeAreAllMuslim. I will post all the
photos on my site and send them to you, Mr. Trump. Feel
free to join us.

Twitter Satire:
#distractinglysexy
http://
gizmodo.com/5901048/colbert-discovers-chuck-grassleyamericas-worst-tweeter
#distractinglysexy
http://
www.buzzfeed.com/skarlan/biohazard-suits-are-nsfw

Culture jamming AKA

Adbusting
A form of activismoften grassrootsby individuals who
are opposed to contemporary consumer culture; culture
jammers consider advertising a form of propaganda, a
form of corporate brainwashing that is increasingly
difficult to escape. (Neill)
Culture jamming is a resistance movement that involves
satirizing ads either by
1) vandalizing ads (altering them somehow or covering
them with subversive graffiti: subvertizing)
2) parodying them

http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Modules/FM21920/subvertise.html

Adbusters

Russian satire:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-15553373
Officer Bubbles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMTm3QRwEc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pofLmW_unhM&nohtm
l5=False&spfreload=10

CUL 343: Final Exam

Date: Thursday, April 21st.
Time: 2:00 to 4:00 pm.
Location: SEQ S1069
Worth: 25%
The Exam:
It will cover material from the whole semester.
It is not open book.
You may being an English Print Dictionary.

PART A: Short Answer (20 points)

(4 points per question)
Identify and state the satiric significance of FIVE of the
following NINE satiric terms, metaphors, characters, etc.
(There could be a picture!)
Note: In your answers, refer specifically to the satiric work
that the term or quote refers to and describe its
significance/meaning. If the term does not refer to a
specific work, use a text of your choice to illustrate
the term.
In your answer, remember to give a specific example and
explain HOW this example illustrates the term.
This section emphasizes material after Rabelais!

Student Answer: Parody

The imitation of another written works attitude or tone in
a more absurd, ridiculous or humorous fashion than the
original. In Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll utilizes
parody in Alices recitation of her childhood rhymes,
bringing attention to and mocking the originals didactic
messages by replacing them by more decadent ones he
thought better for children. For example, instead of how
doth the busy bee, Alice recites how doth the
crocodile, who is lazy, and not industrious like the bee.

PART B: Quotation Analysis (5 points)

Discuss the Significance of ONE of the following

quotations. Refer to the satiric target[s] and method
technique[s] that the quote reflects. Be sure to name the
text!
There will be three quotations to choose from!
They will include A Modest Proposal and subsequent
texts!
Make sure to give some context for the quote.
What techniques and targets are on display in the quote?
What are the overall targets of this satire?

Example for Part B

But no one reads / what I write, for Im afraid to give
public recitals / there are certain people, you see, who
detest this kind of writing, / for most men deserve a
scolding. Pick anyone you like / from a crowd: hes
plagued with avarice or else the disease of ambition.
Which satirist is this?

Example for Part B

This quotation is from Horaces Satires. Here, Horaces
humble, self-critical persona is on display. He is speaking
to his adversarius and defending his practice of satire (a
form of art many detest). In this quote, Horace
demonstrates characteristics of Horatian satire. He is
autobiographical and puts himself down as someone who
does not recite satire with bravado. Furthermore, he
asserts that most men deserve a scolding; in other
words, we are all faulty and fallible. Horaces satire is
known for its universal targets (and less for personal
satire). As well, here he mentions greed and excessive


PART C: Essay (25 points)
Write an essay on ONE of the topics below. Your essay should present a clear,
well-supported argument that discusses TWO satiric texts from our course.
There will be three topics to choose from. The topics will focus on
ideas/themes/techniques that we have been discussing throughout the course.
For example:
Satire as protest, terms such as the grotesque, or defamiliarization, recurrent
targets of satire (materialism, hypocrisy, lack of empathy, American dream,
etc.)
Note: The general clarity of your essay (in terms of grammar and expression)
contributes to your mark. Please take a moment to proofread your essay!

Thank you for being a FANTASTIC class!