Summary: The Evolution Of Satire

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This paper will discuss the evolution of satire (as a social critique) through the ever changing culture across time represented in films. How films exhibit the type of change from using allusion to expose and criticize to a much more forceful disturbance to provoke for a change and to self express any kind of displeasure. Many factors in social norm like politics and religion reasons can be indicators to the substantial change of presence of satire in film that reflects the social culture. Tracing back to the early forms of satire in literature that existed back in the Roman world, it served as fundament and guide for the evolution satire towards the latter mediums like film. The two main types: Horatian and Juevenalian.

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