1st Edition
Speculative Satire in Contemporary Literature and Film Rant Against the Regime
The Briefest of Introductions: What, Why, How
Chapter One: The Rant
Chapter Two: The Regime
Chapter Three: Ranting Against the Regime
Chapter Four: Living Under a Lousy Orthodoxy
Chapter Five: Special Topic Rants
Chapter Six: Neoliberal A.I.
The Briefest of Conclusions: So what? Why bother? How does this matter?
Biography
Kirk Combe is Professor of English at Denison University in Ohio. He teaches and researches in satire and drama, cultural studies, and popular culture. On these topics, he’s published numerous books and articles, including Theorizing Satire: Essays in Literary Criticism and Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood Films.
"Kirk Combe brings welcome clarity and precision to delineating and defining an emergent subgenre of popular and cult-favorite narrative work in print, TV, and cinema. Bringing to bear literary history and theory coupled with political analysis and cultural critique, Combe usefully and often wittily illuminates the relationship between the current socio-political moment and the 'speculative satire' that comments on it."--Brian A. Connery, Professor Emeritus, Oakland University
