Leaving Springfield : the Simpsons and the possibility of oppositional culture
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Leaving Springfield : the Simpsons and the possibility of oppositional culture
（Contemporary approaches to film and television series）
Wayne State University Press, c2004
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- "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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Description
This is a study of the television programme ""The Simpsons"" which focuses on the show's dual roles as subversive political satire and mainstream mass media hit. Since its first appearance as a series of cartoon vignettes in 1987 and its debut as a weekly programme in 1990, ""The Simpsons"" has had multiple, even contradictory, media identities. Although the show has featured biting political and social satire, which often proves fatal to mass public acceptance, ""The Simpsons"" entered fully into the mainstream, consistently earning high ratings from audiences and critics alike. ""Leaving Springfield"" addresses the success of ""The Simpsons"" as a corporate-manufactured show that openly and self-reflexively paraodies the very consumer capitalism it simultaneously promotes. By exploring such topics as the impact of the show's satire on its diverse viewing public and the position of ""The Simpsons"" in sitcom and television animation history, the commentators develop insights into the ways parody intermixes with mass media to critique postmodern society.
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