Kirk Combe
Biographic Data
| ID | 5870386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirk Combe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Combe |
| SIGNATURE | COMBE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Denison University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3889-6976 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ways of the World
Stephen Colbert
This essay offers an assessment of Colbert’s satire that situates his practice within the larger theory and history of the genre. My assertion is that satire problematizes notions of certainty, stable reality, and absolute truth. As such, satire enacts a postmodern agenda of freeplay and undecidability. However, many current media critics operate with a modernist view of the genre and of Colbert in particular. Such an approach to satire is inadeq…
Political parody and satire as subversive speech in the global digital sphere
Homeland Insecurity
Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood Films
The New Millennium Manliness
Hegemonic masculinity is the gender performance that, at any given time, becomes “culturally exalted” over alternative masculine behaviors (Connell, “Social Organization” 38). Exemplars of modern hegemonic masculinity frequently are film actors, sports heroes, or even fantasy characters, ideals difficult or impossible to achieve. The actual practitioners of hegemonic masculinity, however, are people possessing institutional position or considerab…
Bourgeois Rakes in Wedding Crashers
Spielberg's Tale of Two Americas
Shadwell as Lord of Misrule
Eighteenth-Century Life - Volume 24, Number 3, Fall 2000
Clandestine Protest against William III in Dryden's Translations of Juvenal and Persius
Political parody and satire as subversive speech in the global digital sphere
Stephen Colbert
This essay offers an assessment of Colbert’s satire that situates his practice within the larger theory and history of the genre. My assertion is that satire problematizes notions of certainty, stable reality, and absolute truth. As such, satire enacts a postmodern agenda of freeplay and undecidability. However, many current media critics operate with a modernist view of the genre and of Colbert in particular. Such an approach to satire is inadeq…
Clandestine Protest against William III in Dryden's Translations of Juvenal and Persius
Shadwell as Lord of Misrule
Eighteenth-Century Life - Volume 24, Number 3, Fall 2000
Spielberg's Tale of Two Americas
Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood Films
The New Millennium Manliness
Hegemonic masculinity is the gender performance that, at any given time, becomes “culturally exalted” over alternative masculine behaviors (Connell, “Social Organization” 38). Exemplars of modern hegemonic masculinity frequently are film actors, sports heroes, or even fantasy characters, ideals difficult or impossible to achieve. The actual practitioners of hegemonic masculinity, however, are people possessing institutional position or considerab…
Bourgeois Rakes in Wedding Crashers
Stephen Colbert
This essay offers an assessment of Colbert’s satire that situates his practice within the larger theory and history of the genre. My assertion is that satire problematizes notions of certainty, stable reality, and absolute truth. As such, satire enacts a postmodern agenda of freeplay and undecidability. However, many current media critics operate with a modernist view of the genre and of Colbert in particular. Such an approach to satire is inadeq…
Political parody and satire as subversive speech in the global digital sphere
Homeland Insecurity
Ways of the World
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