Laughter as Resistance: The Rise of Political Satire in Croatia and Serbia
With the recent rise of the Right Wing throughout the world, there has been a significant increase in production of countervailing political comedy and satire. In the USA, figures such as Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer have increasingly figured as objects of unbound satire, in shows...
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Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia, and Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
2016-01-01
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| description | With the recent rise of the Right Wing throughout the world, there has been a significant increase in production of countervailing political comedy and satire. In the USA, figures such as Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer have increasingly figured as objects of unbound satire, in shows from Stephen Colbert’s to Saturday Night Live. Political satire has been recently developing in the Balkans as well, especially in Croatia and Serbia, with the work of Croatia’s News Bar and Serbia’s 24 Minuta and Njuz.net. Contemporary media theory and political science have begun to stress the importance and influence of this type of resistance to authoritarianism from the point of view of participatory democracy and active citizenship. This article presents the modus operandi of Croatia’s and Serbia’s political satirists and examines their approaches to resistance by engaging with a set of representative texts and videos. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-90497bb8c6824b20b1fb72a284645a432023-01-03T11:19:09ZengFaculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia, and Faculty of Political Science, University of ZagrebPolitičke Perspektive2217-561X2335-027X2016-01-01633348Laughter as Resistance: The Rise of Political Satire in Croatia and SerbiaSrđan Jovanović0Lund UniversityWith the recent rise of the Right Wing throughout the world, there has been a significant increase in production of countervailing political comedy and satire. In the USA, figures such as Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer have increasingly figured as objects of unbound satire, in shows from Stephen Colbert’s to Saturday Night Live. Political satire has been recently developing in the Balkans as well, especially in Croatia and Serbia, with the work of Croatia’s News Bar and Serbia’s 24 Minuta and Njuz.net. Contemporary media theory and political science have begun to stress the importance and influence of this type of resistance to authoritarianism from the point of view of participatory democracy and active citizenship. This article presents the modus operandi of Croatia’s and Serbia’s political satirists and examines their approaches to resistance by engaging with a set of representative texts and videos.https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/302473political satireCroatiaSerbiaNjuz.netNews Barpolitical participation |
| spellingShingle | Srđan Jovanović Laughter as Resistance: The Rise of Political Satire in Croatia and Serbia Političke Perspektive political satire Croatia Serbia Njuz.net News Bar political participation |
| title | Laughter as Resistance: The Rise of Political Satire in Croatia and Serbia |
| title_full | Laughter as Resistance: The Rise of Political Satire in Croatia and Serbia |
| title_fullStr | Laughter as Resistance: The Rise of Political Satire in Croatia and Serbia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Laughter as Resistance: The Rise of Political Satire in Croatia and Serbia |
| title_short | Laughter as Resistance: The Rise of Political Satire in Croatia and Serbia |
| title_sort | laughter as resistance the rise of political satire in croatia and serbia |
| topic | political satire Croatia Serbia Njuz.net News Bar political participation |
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