Blame Canada!: South Park and Contemporary Culture
Australian pop-cultural scholar Johnson-Woods, who has also published on reality TV and pop fiction, lovingly limns Comedy Central's animated seriesSouth Park, in which a cast led by precocious little children has, over the years, lampooned matters sexual, political, and religious. No mere list of targets can do the show justice, as creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone spare nothing and nobody. So Johnson-Woods analyses episode plots, characters, and motivations, treating the showlike the legitimate object of social research that it is. Indeed, in her introduction she refers toSouth Parkas "the postmodern pastiche par excellence." Perhaps slightly more obscure than its older peers in animated social satire,The SimpsonsandKing of the Hill, the cable-boundSouth Parkpresents a wilder, higher-energy brand of satire whose complex, rapid-fire delivery Johnson-Woods helps viewers understand and appreciate. Interesting reading for both committed fans and the merely curious.Mike TribbyCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.