Blame Canada!
Subtitle: South Park And Contemporary Culture
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Published: March 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780826417305
Subjects: Films, cinema; Popular culture; Television - History & Criticism; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Performing Arts/Dance
Description: Now running into its tenth season, South Park has still not "jumped the shark". Satricially edgier than The Simpsons, South Park responds immediately to cultural controversies: four days after Saddam Hussein's capture an episode lampooned it, and the show has no fear in tackling subjects like Terri Schiavo, The Passion of The Christ, and Michael Jackson, while co-opting disparate elements such as Kill Bill and Janet Jackson's nipple into one episode. Its mixture of iconoclasm, cultural referents, and intertextuality makes it the perfect lens through which to examine contemporary popular culture in America - and television's role in the creation of that culture. Blame Canada! is a smart, readable book that will appeal to the show's many fans as much as to scholars and researchers of contemporary television.