* Charles Johnson-The Successful Pyrate ( set off a minor furore over the morality of portraying pirates on stage ; actually a satire )

The film is a satire on the Hollywood take on history, such as U-571 ( portraying the capture of an Enigma machine as being by the Americans rather than the Polish and later British ) and Pearl Harbor ( where American participation in the Battle of Britain was exaggerated ).

There is a bitter satire for a future writer in that ''.

" Some of the targets of Newman's satire on this album ( which he would return to on future albums ) include racism (" Yellow Man "), L. A .' s rock scene (" Mama Told Me Not to Come "), and the South (" Old Kentucky Home ").

* " Meeting of the Board "-another satire, this one set in a future in which American industry has been badly compromised by workers purchasing full joint-stock ownership of their companies, mismanaging them into a state of stolid uncompetitiveness.

Some of Bulgarin's stories are science fiction: Probable Tall-Tales is a far future story about the 29th century ; Improbable Tall-Tales is a fantastic voyage into hollow Earth ; Mitrofanushka's Adventures in the Moon is a satire.

After a three decades or so hiatus from acting, Conant re-emerged on off and off-off Broadway stages in productions ranging from Gene Ruffini's dystopian Homeland, Anne Fizzard's back-stage comedy Good Opinions, and Tuvia Tenenbom's absurdist satire Kabbalah.

Political fiction frequently employs the literary modes of satire, often in the genres of Utopian and dystopian fiction or social science fiction.

Two notable exclusions from this trend were Yevgeny Zamyatin, author of dystopian novel We, and Mikhail Bulgakov, who, while using science fiction instrumentary in Heart of a Dog, The Fatal Eggs and Ivan Vasilyevich, was interested in social satire rather than scientistic progress.

Lower Slobbovia and Dogpatch are both comic examples of modern dystopian satire.

In particular, marijuana has seen a renaissance in its utopian and dystopian representation in popular culture, such as in the suburban satire American Beauty ( 1999, dir.

Feed ( 2002 ), a dystopian novel of the cyberpunk genre by M. T. ( Matthew Tobin ) Anderson, is a dark satire about corporate power, consumerism, information technology, and data mining in society.

Anderson writes the dystopian novel using heavy satire of consumerism and corporate America.

This is an " SF satire on the Middle East crisis and the War on Terrorism, and concerns what happens when the liberal Western Galactic Empire relocates the oppressed Minervan sect to their ancient homeland of Kennewick, Washington, in the midst of a US ruled by Christian fundamentalist fanatics .".

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Entertainment Weeklys Ken Tucker enjoyed the " nervy attempt to do something different with the TV Western " in the pilot and said that " Brisco County is less a satire of the Western's cliches than a revitalization of them.

While some critics criticized the film's depictions of violence and greed — such as death scenes, Kate's speech, and the gremlins ' gluttony — for lacking comic value, scholar Charlotte Miller instead interpreted these as a satire of " some characteristics of Western civilization ", suggesting that Westerners may take too much satisfaction from violence.

He illustrated this distinction by positing Squire Western ( from Tom Jones ) as a character rooted in novelistic realism, but the tutors Thwackum and Square as figures of Menippean satire.

Murakami was unsatisfied with the state of contemporary art in Japan, believing it to be “ a deep appropriation of Western trends .” Thus, much of his early work was done in the spirit of social criticism and satire.

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines ( 1987 ) was a reflexive satire on the Western film itself.

In March 2008, the site of the club was renamed Zebrano's but after a small group of Peter Cook devotees ( Sally Western, Jonathan Hansler and Robert Ross ) pressured the management for some recognition of the old club's importance in satire, the owners agreed to replace " The Establishment " in writing above the door.

During the trip and their long stay in Paris ( 1712 – 1720 ), they comment, in letters exchanged with friends and mullahs, on numerous aspects of Western, Christian society, particularly French politics and mores, ending with a biting satire of the System of John Law.

The passage of Pseudo-Clement stands within a Western Christian tradition of satire against the variety of minor deities worshipped by classical pagans ; similar passages exist in The City of God by Saint Augustine of Hippo, and Tertullian's Ad Nationes.

While Kipling may have intended the piece as a form of satire, much of Kipling's other writing does suggest that he genuinely believed in the " beneficent role " which the introduction of Western ideas could play in lifting non-Western peoples out of poverty and ignorance.

A deft, hilarious satire on very high French society involving a statesman with two enviable possessions, a lovely young bride and a head containing such weighty thoughts that he has occasionally to remove it for greater comfort.

Although Villaggio's movies tend to bridge trash comedy with a more elevated social satire ; this character had a great impact on Italian society, to such a degree that the adjective fantozziano entered the lexicon.

He is best known for his book Twenty-one Days in India ( 1878 – 1879 ), a satire upon Anglo-Indian society and modes of thought.

In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement.

Some maintain the position that More's Utopia functions only on the level of a satire, a work intended to reveal more about the England of his time than about an idealistic society.

Therefore, the satire of Gombrowicz presents the human being either as a member of a society or an individual who struggles with himself and the world.

The novel is a satire of society as a whole, characterised by hypocrisy and opportunism, but it is not a reforming novel ; there is no suggestion that social or political changes, or greater piety and moral reformism could improve the nature of society.

His novels contain, within imaginary worlds and situations, a strong satire of Italian society over the last few decades.

Other targets of satire, as would become typical in Offenbach's burlesques, are the stilted performances of classical drama at the Comédie Française and the scandals in society and politics of the Second French Empire.

It is a satire about a movie director, played by Joel McCrea, who longs to make a socially relevant drama, but eventually learns that comedies are his more valuable contribution to society.

In 1939, now able to co-finance his own films, Renoir made The Rules of the Game ( La Règle du Jeu ), a satire on contemporary French society with an ensemble cast.

Books of brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and Kir Bulychev, among others, are reminiscent of social problems and often include satire on contemporary Soviet society.

It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period.

Under cover of the thieves and highwaymen who figured in it was disguised a satire on society, for Gay made it plain that in describing the moral code of his characters he had in mind the corruptions of the governing class.

Most of the articles were written by cartoonist Tristan Farnon under the alias " Spigot " ( Jerkcity, Leisure Town ) and other associates, containing news satire and general rumination on modern society.

In 1921 Grosz was accused of insulting the army, which resulted in a 300 German Mark fine and the destruction of the collection Gott mit uns (" God with us "), a satire on German society.

Their first published article, " The Chaldee Manuscript ", a thinly disguised satire of Edinburgh society in biblical language which Hogg started and Wilson and Lockhart elaborated, was so controversial that Wilson fled and Blackwood was forced to apologise.

The chief of these were the Potiphar Papers ( 1853 ), a satire on the fashionable society of the day ; and Prue and I ( 1856 ), a pleasantly sentimental, fancifully tender and humorous study of life.

Equally successful was the Intercepted Letter from Canton ( 1805 ), also anonymous, a satire on Dublin society.

A number of long poems were also written during the 1920s, including Mina Loy's ' auto-mythology ', Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose and Hugh MacDiarmid's satire on Scottish society, A Drunk Man Looks At The Thistle.

It is a satire on the contemporary society which showcases the lifestyle led by the people of that age.

Largely a satire of American culture, society, and behavior, it critiques the vacuity of middle-class American life and its pressure on individuals toward conformity.

" They praised Vonnegut for " blending skilfully a psychological study of the persistent human problems in a mechanistically ' ideal ' society, a vigorous melodramatic story-line, and a sharp Voltairean satire.