[Commlist] New book : Without Empathy: Irony and the Satirical Impulse in Eight Major Filmmakers

Intellect is pleased to share that /Without Empathy: Irony and the 
Satirical Impulse in Eight Major Filmmakers 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/without-empathy>/, by MK Raghavendra, is 
out in e-book and hardback!

In /Without Empathy/, MK Raghavendra investigates how irony and satire 
function in cinema by focusing on the work of eight visionary 
directors—Luis Buñuel, R.W. Fassbinder, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, 
Paul Verhoeven, Aki Kaurismäki, Aleksei Balabanov, and David Lynch. At a 
time when irony is increasingly scrutinized as a mode of expression, 
this book reconsiders its role in film, revealing how these auteurs 
deploy wit and subversion in ways that unsettle audience expectations.

Through close readings of selected works, Raghavendra identifies layers 
of meaning beneath the surface of films often misread. The book situates 
these directors within broader traditions of cinematic satire, while 
simultaneously interrogating what their work has to say about society, 
culture and human folly. /Without Empathy/ is a lucid read for scholars 
and students of film studies and communication, providing a provocative 
lens on how satirical intent is not always recognisable today and how 
its actual targets can make society uncomfortable.


*_Table of Contents
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*Acknowledgments
Introduction:* Irony, Satire, and Empathy

*1.* Luis Buñuel: Unaffiliated Radicalism
*2.* Stanley Kubrick: The Failure of Human Systems
*3.* RW Fassbinder: The Original Sin
*4.* Robert Altman: History, Ideology, and Generic Revision
*5*. Paul Verhoeven: Satirical Impulse Goes Clandestine
*6.* Aki Kaurismäki: Irony and Hopelessness
*7.* Aleksei Balabanov: Collapsed Utopia
*8. *David Lynch: Public Mythologies and Personal Fantasies

*Afterword:* Targets and Strategies
*Bibliography
Index*


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www.intellectbooks.com/without-empathy
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