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Nature of Satire (1956)

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Explains that satire has to do with the nature of reality and combines both humor and criticism. Points out that cosmic irony, social irony, and individual irony are the bases for satire, and discusses and illustrates each of these three forms. (Description from NET Film Service Catalog 1960)

Directors & creators

WOI-TV (Television station : Ames, Iowa)

Subjects

public broadcasting, AAPB, Satire, Humor, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Educational Television, National Educational Television, Leonard Feinberg, Iowa State University, Man and Laughter (Television program), Social Reality, Reality vs. Appearance, Literary History, Jonathan Swift, 1950s History, Arts and Humanities, Human Behavior, Social Etiquette, Sociology, Communication, Logic, Intellectual History, Literary Theory, Satirists, Mass Media History, Public Broadcasting

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