Without Empathy: Irony and the Satirical Impulse in Eight Major Filmmakers

Irony and satire in cinema have fallen out of favor. This study looks at the works of eight auteurs-Luis Buñuel, R.W. Fassbinder, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Paul Verhoeven, Aki Kaurismäki, Aleksei Balabanov, and David Lynch-whose films, though not always seen as such, are often more ironic than satirical.


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MK Raghavendra is an Indian film and literary scholar with thirteen published books on film, culture, and politics.