Title: Leaving Springfield : the Simpsons and the possibility of oppositional culture /
Authors: Alberti, John.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Simpsons (Television program)
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.