From Menippus to the Movies: Menippean Satire in Motion Pictures

摘要

Like its literary counterparts, Menippean satire in motion pictures range over a variety of topics, from the lunacy of warfare in the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup (Leo McCarey 1933) and Dr. Strangelove: Or how I learned to stop Worrying and love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick 1963) to the dismal circum- Stances of callous humanity in Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard 1967) and Devil's Advocate (Taylor Hackford 1997). Mock adventure characterizes Bedazzled (Stanley Donen 1967) and Hero (Stephen Frears 1992) as well as the inventive nonfictions Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris 1978) as well as the (Michael Moore 1989).