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Leaving Springfield : the Simpsons and the possibility of oppositional culture

Title
Leaving Springfield : the Simpsons and the possibility of oppositional culture / edited by John Alberti.
Publication
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors
Alberti, John.
Description
xxxii, 344 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Contemporary approaches to film and television series
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Filmography: p. 303-326.
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.
Call Number
MWGT 04-1471
ISBN
  • 0814328482
  • 0814328490 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002156592
OCLC
51323494
Title
Leaving Springfield : the Simpsons and the possibility of oppositional culture / edited by John Alberti.
Imprint
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2004.
Series
Contemporary approaches to film and television series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Filmography: p. 303-326.
Added Author
Alberti, John.
Research Call Number
MWGT 04-1471
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