Political Science 2142A/B Lecture 2: 2124
4 Feb 2019
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Political satire: the use of irony, humour and/or sarcasm to examine and criticize states of affair or controversial issues or events within the political arena. More an attempt to expose tensions, errors, absurdity and hypocrisy than trying to offer particular solutions to a particular problem (different from political protest or dissent). Types: fake news, editorial cartoons, pros satire (satire in essay form) - newspapers, short stories, mark twain - famous for satire. One of the first cultures to use pop culture and politics through theatre. Would have big festivals that showed political theatre. A main one was used for god dionysus - god of wine and fertility. One person played all the characters - fesphis. People on stage w no lines - chorus. Used to relax strong dividing tendencies in their society as there was a prominent hierachy. Tragedy = goat song; men dressed up in goat skin and compete - went w culture of games/sportmanship.
