The nature of satire

Year Published: 1956

Creator: WOI-TV Tom Lehrer Dr. Leonard Feinberg

Format: 16mm

Description: Dr. Feinberg addresses satire; why satire is used, how it combines humor and criticism, its relationship to the nature of reality, and how it causes laughter. Dr. Feinberg points out that cosmic irony, social irony, and individual irony are the basis for satire, and discusses and illustrates each of these three forms.

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