Burlesque

Entry 5: For the analysis of Public Women, we focused on the era of the early to mid 1800s. Specifically we read the speech of Angelina E. G. Weld. She stood in front of a large audience of curious southerners to address the controversial subject of slavery. This was her first break at becoming a public woman. She confronted the stereotypes of a woman’s place in the industrializing American country and found a space, her public, to exhibit her strengths and opinions. Weld did this by not…

Previous to, or preceding this chappett, I listed some childhood songs.* One of the authors – or rather translator and transferor of the song was a kid named Kenny. He was a couple of years younger than us, but at a young age, two years were more like dog years… light years. A lot of shit happens and gets crammed into one year of prepubescent life. Kenny was a chunky; hyper kid with the look and attitude of a nine year old John Belushi. Funny as shit! At nine he had attitudinal BALLS,…

Through the silent film Buster Keaton Sherlock Jr.(1924) the filmmaker managed to portray Sherlock Jr's vaudevillist roots by imposing a deadpanning persona centered on burlesque comedy. The protagonist Sherlock Jr did not show any emotional reactions instead he performed actions that would alter laughter to the viewers. These actions would be out of innocence, and his unawareness would result in laughter. For instance, when Sherlock Jr. imitated every movement the culprit of the watch did in…

Bishop experienced a succession of personal and professional milestones during the middle years of the Great Depression. In 1933, she was given her first one-woman show in New York City. A few years later, the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased her painting Two Girls, the same year she was asked to return to Art Students League to teach. A decade later, she became the first woman to hold an executive position as Vice President of the National Institute of Arts & Letters. Among her many awards…

Clinton Buddeley states about the use of humour and satire in the Victorian age: “There was much satire and burlesque written during the eighteenth century, and V. C. ClintonBaddeley comments on the difference between these two genres: Satire is the schoolmaster attacking dishonesty with a whip. Burlesque is the rude boy attacking pomposity with apeashooter. Satire must laugh not to weep; burlesque must laugh not to burst" (Nilson , 1998:2). For better understanding of humour readers must…

princess and they live happily ever after. However, the prince in the story is an ogre and the princess is a traditional "pretty" and "white" princess, who becomes an ogre once the sun sets. One can clearly identify that Dreamworks created this burlesque fairy tale, in order to satirize Disney 's traditional and overrated fairy tales. Even though Shrek is an animated movie and has a PG rating, the audience can easily recognize sexual and satirical lines throughout the movie. According to…

There is an array of different variations of prejudice in this extravagant world. Two hefty forms are racism and sexism. Racism is living prejudice or discriminating someone of another race in the belief that one’s race is superior. Sexism is the prejudice or discrimination against one’s gender, typically female. I have experienced both of these variations of prejudice bounteous times throughout my life from both ends of the stick. Allow me to have the honor of elaborating my profuse experiences…

High school students all go through the same problem: finding themselves. According to most, getting involved with clubs, having a social life, and taking the recommended AP courses would essentially make the students fit the standard of what a highschool student needs to be. But is it really necessary to go through the trouble? Would doing all of these things really help the students find themselves? The purpose of our satire is to show how the typical highschool standard of joining clubs,…

Some observers of the content of American television find it to be an electronics throwback to the nineteenth-century tradition of popular commercial entertainment with its curious combinations of burlesque and violence, but also self-improvement and self-important seriousness. Despite the frustration of reformers, American television probably has tended more to homogenize popular culture than to debase it. And people that use TV understand its programming…

Finn is a novel. Finally, Twain began Huckleberry Finn in idle amusement in the summer of 1876; it was experimental because the author could afford to indulge himself, and this helps to explain vacillations in tone and the freewheeling mixture of burlesque, satire, tall tale, and many other improvisations of technique and purpose. Over the extended period of composition, Twain’s political, social, and philosophical attitudes changed as did his attitude toward Huck’s narrative. Nearly seven years…