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The Witty Seven: Late Socialist-Capitalist Satire in Hungary

Imre, Anikó·2012·Popular Communication
DOI 10.1080/15405702.2012.638567
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This article adopts the comparative framework proposed by anthropologists Dominic Boyer and Alexander Yurchak (2010), who establish a “family resemblance” between the aesthetics and ideological contexts of contemporary Western political satire and a late socialist Russian and Eastern European mode of irony defined by overidentification with its satirized object or idea. I discuss the long-running Hungarian postsocialist satirical talk show Heti Hetes as a linchpin between late socialist and late capitalist forms of political satire. The program bears the characteristics and legacies of both and reveals unexpected similarities between public discourses otherwise radically separated into two different political systems during the Cold War. Heti Hetes provides the ground for a multilevel analysis, which accounts for the national specificities of a long legacy of political cabaret as well as the shared regional circumstances of late socialism. The broadest goal of the article is to draw up the global historical trajectory of contemporary Western television satire.

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  • Fake news across the spectrum, even the most innocuous satire, has arguably led to increasingly blurred lines between what is seen as real news and what is seen as fake, resulting in a gradual decline of trust in traditional real, or 'hard' news sources.

    “Moreover fake news across the spectrum, even the most innocuous satire, has arguably [3,14,15] also led to increasingly blurred lines between what is seen as real news and what is seen as fake, resulting in a gradual decline of trust in traditional real, or 'hard' news sources [16].”

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Authors
Imre, A.
Affiliations
University of Southern California (US)
Corresponding author
Imre, Anikó
ORCID
Imre, Anikó
Venue
Popular Communication
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2012-01
Volume
10
Issue
1-2
Pages
131-144
ISSN
  • 1540-5702 (ISSN-L)
  • 1540-5710
DOI
10.1080/15405702.2012.638567
OpenAlex
W2068362542
Cited by
6
References
6
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
FWCI
1.45
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Popular Communication (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Humor Studies and Applications
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Eastern European Communism and Reforms
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Media Studies and Communication
Keywords
political satire, Hungarian television, late socialism, late capitalism, irony, political cabaret, Cold War, family resemblance, over-identification, post-socialism

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