Title: Humor and satire on contemporary television : animation and the American joke /
Authors: Ezell, Silas Kaine,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Animated television programs United States History and criticism.; Television broadcasting Social aspects United States; Animated television programs; Television broadcasting Social aspects; United States
Contents: Preface and acknowledgments -- Irony and incongruity in American humor -- Frontiers, suburbs, politics, and poop: setting, episodic structure, and the American carnivalesque in the Southwest humorists and animated television programs -- No laughing matter: the relationship between American humor and American collective memory and history -- African-American multiculturalism in The PJs and The Boondocks -- The unkindest cut: animated television programs and postmodernism -- Conclusion: Irony and nihilism: postmodern, or American?