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008 080724s2009 ctua b 001 0 eng
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn233543985
035 $a(OCoLC)233543985
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050 00 $aPN6149.P64$bF74 2009
082 00 $a813/.54$222
100 1 $aFreedman, Leonard.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50025689
245 14 $aThe offensive art :$bpolitical satire and its censorship around the world from Beerbohm to Borat /$cLeonard Freedman.
260 $aWestport, Conn. :$bPraeger,$c2009.
300 $ax, 200 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [167]-189) and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$tSatirists and Censors -- $gPt. I.$t(Almost) Anything Goes: Political Satire in America and Britain -- $g1.$tPuncturing the Imperial Presidency: FDR to George W. Bush -- $g2.$tCensorship, American Style -- $g3.$tBritain: From Bulldogs to Poodles -- $g4.$tCensorship, British Style -- $gPt. II.$tA Dangerous Game: Political Satire in Authoritarian Systems -- $g5.$tWhat's Funny About Hitler? -- $g6.$tStalin and Mao: No Laughing Matter -- $g7.$tImperial Ironies: India and the Raj -- $g8.$tThe Middle East: Raging Against Cartoons -- $tConclusion: Still More Satire - And Why We Need It.
520 1 $a"In a tongue-in-cheek style peppered with the world's best one-liners from the last hundred years. The Offensive Art recounts the acrimonious and often perilous cat-and-mouse games between political satirists and their censors and inhibitors through the last century in America (especially FDR, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush II), Britain (especially Churchill, Thatcher, and Blair, and the Royals), Germany (Hitler to the present), Russia (Stalin to the present), China (Mao to the present), India (from the Raj on), and the Middle East (from 1920s Egypt to today)." "The Offensive Art is an arch and sometimes caustic look at the art of political satire as practiced in democratic, monarchical, and authoritarian societies around the world over the past century - together with the efforts by governmental, religious, and corporate authorities to suppress it by censorship, intimidation, policy, and fatwa. Examples are drawn from the full spectrum of satiric genres, including novels, plays, verse, songs, essays, cartoons, cabarets and revues, movies, television, and the Internet." "Freedman focuses on the role and transformation of satire during shifts from authoritarian to democratic systems in such places as South Africa, Argentina, and Eastern Europe. He surveys the state of satire throughout the world today, identifying the most dangerous countries for practitioners of the offensive art, and presents his findings as to the political efficacy of satire in provoking change."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPolitical satire$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPolitical satire$xCensorship.
852 00 $bmil$hPN6149.P64$iF74 2009