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Leaving Springfield : the Simpsons and the possibilities of oppositional culture / [edited by] John Alberti.

Contributor(s): Series: Contemporary film and television seriesPublication details: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2003.Description: xxxii, 344 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0814328490 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.45/72 21
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.77.S58 L43 2003
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PN1992.77 .S58 L43 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000699040

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Filmography: p. 303-326.

"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.

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