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Satiric Impersonations: From Aristophanes to the Guerrilla Girls
By Joel Schechter
200 pages
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- Southern Illinois University
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- Carbondale
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Synopsis
In this entertaining and provocative new work, Joel Schechter selectively surveys political satire covering a wide range of periods and events from Aristophanes to the present. His absorbing essays focus on the satire of Jonathan Swift, Charlie Chaplin, Will Rogers, Dario Fo, and the Guerrilla Girls, among others.
Schechter argues that some politicians are as theatrical, if not as comic, as the plays, pamphlets, and films in which they are satirically impersonated, and he contends that ...
In this entertaining and provocative new work, Joel Schechter selectively surveys political satire covering a wide range of periods and events from Aristophanes to the present. His absorbing essays focus on the satire of Jonathan Swift, Charlie Chaplin, Will Rogers, Dario Fo, and the Guerrilla Girls, among others.
Schechter argues that some politicians are as theatrical, if not as comic, as the plays, pamphlets, and films in which they are satirically impersonated, and he contends that their very theatricality invites their satirical treatment by playwrights and performers. As examples, he cites Hitler, Stalin, and Reagan as performers whose "acts" rival anything a satirist could invent and any impersonation a comedian could stage.
To Schechter, impersonation is both an art form through which one living person appears to be another and an act that reveals that the person imitated is an impostor. For example, he contends that "while Hitler conquered Europe, Chaplin [in his film The Great Dictator ]in his own way conquered Hitler, adding him to a repertoire that included the Little Tramp and (later) Blue-beard."
Schechter concludes with a memoir of his own brief career as an actor-politician.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: the Great Carnival of Time 1
- 1 - Senators Aristophanes, Kennedy, and Dole 7
- 2 - Jonathan Swift and the Guerrilla Girls 20
- 3 - David Crockett Goes to Washington, Will Rogers Stays Home 34
- 4 - The Last Days of Karl Kraus, First Nights of Günter Wallraff 46
- 5 - The Leading Actor Played the Führer": Hitler as Chaplin's Double" 64
- 6 - Stalin and His Doubles 73
- 7 - The Trials of Daniel Berrigan 80
- 8 - Dario Fo, Trumpets and Raspberries 92
- 9 - Reagan, the Teleprompter President 107
- 10 - Abbie Hoffman's Other Life 123
- 11 - Confessions of an Actor-Politician 136
- Conclusion: the Gorbachev Look-Alike Contest 153
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: the Great Carnival of Time 1
- 1 - Senators Aristophanes, Kennedy, and Dole 7
- 2 - Jonathan Swift and the Guerrilla Girls 20
- 3 - David Crockett Goes to Washington, Will Rogers Stays Home 34
- 4 - The Last Days of Karl Kraus, First Nights of Günter Wallraff 46
- 5 - The Leading Actor Played the Führer": Hitler as Chaplin's Double" 64
- 6 - Stalin and His Doubles 73
- 7 - The Trials of Daniel Berrigan 80
- 8 - Dario Fo, Trumpets and Raspberries 92
- 9 - Reagan, the Teleprompter President 107
- 10 - Abbie Hoffman's Other Life 123
- 11 - Confessions of an Actor-Politician 136
- Conclusion: the Gorbachev Look-Alike Contest 153
- Notes Index 161
- Notes 163
- Index 181