03401namaa2200529uu 4500 doab135620 oapen 20260305123954.0 m o d cr|mn|---annan 240314s2021 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d 9780367626815 9780367654092 9781003110491 9781003110491 10.4324/9781003110491 doi oapen oapen eng dc ATJ bicssc DS bicssc DSK bicssc JBCC1 bicssc JPF bicssc JPS bicssc Combe, Kirk aut Speculative Satire in Contemporary Literature and Film Rant Against the Regime Taylor & Francis 2021 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star Since 1980, when neoliberal and neoconservative forces began their hostile takeover of western culture, a new type of political satire has emerged that works to unmask and deter those toxic doctrines. Literary and cultural critic Kirk Combe calls this new form of satire the Rant. The Rant is grim, highly imaginative, and complex in its blending of genres. It mixes facets of satire, science fiction, and monster tale to produce widely consumed spectacles-major studio movies, popular television/streaming series, bestselling novels-designed to disturb and to provoke. The Rant targets what Combe calls the Regime. Simply put, the Regime is the sum of the dangerous social, economic, and political orthodoxies spurred on by neoliberal and neoconservative polity. Such practices include free-market capitalism, corporatism, militarism, religiosity, imperialism, racism, patriarchy, and so on. In the Rant, then, we have a unique and wholly contemporary genre of political expression and protest: speculative satire. All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English International relations bicssc Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers bicssc Literature: history and criticism bicssc Political ideologies and movements bicssc Popular culture bicssc Television bicssc satire,political satire,science fiction,speculative fiction,dystopia,dystopian fiction,neoliberalism,neoconservatism,genre studies,cultural studies,capitalism,individualism,surveillance,marxism,socialism,Neoliberal corporatism,Speculative satire,Literature and film,Science fiction,Terry Gilliam's film,Speculative Satire,MaddAddam Trilogy,Young Man,MaddAddam,Timeless,Handmaid's Tale,Cognitive Estrangement,Surveillance Capitalism,Monster Tale,Workplace Abuse,Blade Runner,Shoshana Zuboff,Black Mirror,Menippean Satire,Roundabout,Feminist Fabulation,Lives,Chronic,America,North American Free Trade Agreement,Modern Satire,White Monster,International Monetary Fund,Horror Movie,God's Gardeners DOAB Library. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/135620 0 Free-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication 93304 93304