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oapen-20.500.12657-884002024-03-28T14:02:55Z Chapter 5 Special Topic Rants Combe, Kirk White Monster,Horror Movie,Peele’s Film,Young Man,Handmaid’s Tale,Black Mirror,Speculative Satire,White Supremacist,Plays Back,Elisabeth Moss,Young Black Men,Horror Genre,SLS,TSA,Face To Face,Make Up,Board Games,Brain Computer Interface,Black Men,Deer Head,Workplace Abuse,Jog thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATJ Television thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC1 Popular culture Since 1980, when neoliberal and neoconservative forces began their hostile takeover of western culture, a new type of political satire has emerged that works to unmask and deter those toxic doctrines. Literary and cultural critic Kirk Combe calls this new form of satire the Rant. The Rant is grim, highly imaginative, and complex in its blending of genres. It mixes facets of satire, science fiction, and monster tale to produce widely consumed spectacles—major studio movies, popular television/streaming series, bestselling novels—designed to disturb and to provoke. The Rant targets what Combe calls the Regime. Simply put, the Regime is the sum of the dangerous social, economic, and political orthodoxies spurred on by neoliberal and neoconservative polity. Such practices include free-market capitalism, corporatism, militarism, religiosity, imperialism, racism, patriarchy, and so on. In the Rant, then, we have a unique and wholly contemporary genre of political expression and protest: speculative satire. 2024-03-13T15:32:34Z 2024-03-13T15:32:34Z 2021 chapter 9780367626815 9780367654092 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88400 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003110491_10.4324_9781003110491-6.pdf Taylor & Francis Speculative Satire in Contemporary Literature and Film Routledge 10.4324/9781003110491-6 10.4324/9781003110491-6 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb ec5e3aff-f002-42b7-adad-cb6d3965bd2f dd06fa2d-a69f-4559-8a2a-cdc400ca574c 9780367626815 9780367654092 Routledge 27 Denison University Denison open access
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Since 1980, when neoliberal and neoconservative forces began their hostile takeover of western culture, a new type of political satire has emerged that works to unmask and deter those toxic doctrines. Literary and cultural critic Kirk Combe calls this new form of satire the Rant. The Rant is grim, highly imaginative, and complex in its blending of genres. It mixes facets of satire, science fiction, and monster tale to produce widely consumed spectacles—major studio movies, popular television/streaming series, bestselling novels—designed to disturb and to provoke. The Rant targets what Combe calls the Regime. Simply put, the Regime is the sum of the dangerous social, economic, and political orthodoxies spurred on by neoliberal and neoconservative polity. Such practices include free-market capitalism, corporatism, militarism, religiosity, imperialism, racism, patriarchy, and so on. In the Rant, then, we have a unique and wholly contemporary genre of political expression and protest: speculative satire.
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