Taking South Park Seriously

Name: Taking South Park Seriously
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AvJeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

Collection of scholarly essays on the wildly popular Comedy Central show.Since it came on the air in 1997, Comedy Central's top-rated animated program, South Park, has been criticized for its crude, scatological humor and political insensitivity. However, the program also fearlessly wades into the morass of American political life as it tackles and satirizes all American sacred cows, including "political correctness," the value of celebrities, ideas about childhood, and the role of religion in American life. In the process, South Park raises provocative and timely questions about politics, identity, and the media’s influence in shaping American thinking.Taking South Park Seriously brings together scholars who explore the broader implications of South Park's immense popularity by examining the program's politics, aesthetics, and cultural impact. Topics covered include the pleasures of watching the show, South Park's relationship to other animated programs, and the program's representations of racial and ethnic minorities, the disabled, celebrities, children, religion, and education. This book will be of interest not only to communications and cultural studies scholars, but to anyone who has ever laughed along with Cartman, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny.Contributors include Matt Becker, Jason Boyd, Lindsay Coleman, Michael W. DeLashmutt, Randall Fallows, Stephen Groening, Alison Halsall, Brannon Hancock, Brian L. Ott, Marc R. Plamondon, James Rennie, Robert Samuels, Damion Sturm, and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-09-11
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:266
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791475669

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Television inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is Associate Professor of English at Central Michigan University and the author of several books, including The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination.

Recensioner i media

"This collection is sure to get South Park fans thinking a little deeper. The articles are both well written and readable. You know, I think I learned something today!" — Robert Arp, editor of South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today"This book is a serious and thoughtful effort at a scholarly analysis of South Park, and it makes an important contribution in beginning a scholarly dialogue on this influential and often controversial show." — John Alberti, author of Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Taking South Park SeriouslyJeffrey Andrew WeinstockPart One The Pleasures of South Park 1. "Bigger Longer & Uncut": South Park and the CarnivalesqueAlison Halsall2. The Pleasures of South Park (An Experiment in Media Erotics)Brian L. Ott3. Orphic Persuasions and Siren Seductions: Vocal Music in South ParkJason Boyd and Marc R. Plamondon4. "Simpsons Did It": South Park as Differential SignifierJeffrey Andrew WeinstockPart Two Identity Politics 5. Freud Goes to South Park: Teaching against Postmodern Prejudices and Equal Opportunity HatredRobert Samuels6. Cynicism and Other Postideological Half Measures in South ParkStephen Groening 7. Shopping at J-Mart with the Williams: Race, Ethnicity, and Belonging in South ParkLindsay Coleman Part Three South Park Conservatives? 8. "I Hate Hippies": South Park and the Politics of Generation XMatt Becker9. South Park Heretics: Confronting Orthodoxy through Theater of the AbsurdRandall Fallows10. Prophetic Profanity: South Park on Religion or Thinking Theologically with Eric CartmanMichael W. DeLashmutt and Brannon HancockPart Four Specific Critiques 11. "You Know, I Learned Something Today...": Cultural Pedagogy and the Limits of Formal Education in South ParkJames Rennie12. "Omigod, It’s Russell Crowe!": South Park’s Assault on CelebrityDamion SturmList of Episodes CitedSouth Park Complete Episode Guide, Seasons 1–11List of ContributorsIndex