An edition of Leaving Springfield (2004)

Leaving Springfield

the Simpsons and the possibilities of oppositional culture

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An edition of Leaving Springfield (2004)

Leaving Springfield

the Simpsons and the possibilities of oppositional culture

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English
Pages
344

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Leaving Springfield: the Simpsons and the possibilities of oppositional culture
2004, Wayne State University Press
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Table of Contents

"Use a pen, Sideshow Bob": the Simpsons and the threat of high culture / David L.G. Arnold
Commodity culture and its discontents: Mr. Bennett, Bart Simpson, and the rhetoric of modernism / Kurt M. Koenigsberger
The Simpsons and Hanna-Barbera's animation legacy / Megan Mullen
Countercultural literacy: learning irony with the Simpsons / Kevin J.H. Dettmar
Homer erectus: Homer Simpson as everyman ... and every woman / Valerie Weilunn Chow
Who wants candy? Disenchantment in the Simpsons / Robert Sloane
Myth or consequences: ideological fault lines in the Simpsons / Vincent Brook
"So television's responsible!": oppositionality and the interpretive logic of satire and censorship in the Simpsons and South Park / William J. Savage, Jr.
Looking for Amanda Hugginkiss: gay life on the Simpsons / Matthew Henry
Releasing the hounds: the Simpsons as anti-nuclear satire / Mick Broderick
Local satire with a global reach: ethnic stereotyping and cross-cultural conflicts in the Simpsons / Duncan Stuart Beard
Bart Simpson: prince of irreverence / Douglass Rushkoff.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Detroit
Series
Contemporary approaches to film and television series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.45/72
Library of Congress
PN1992.77.S58 L43 2004, PN1992.77.S58L43

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxii, 344 p. ;
Number of pages
344

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3578443M
ISBN 10
0814328490
LCCN
2002156592
Library Thing
1453822
Goodreads
855362

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