Leaving Springfield
Subtitle: the Simpsons and the possibilities of oppositional culture
By: edited by John Alberti.
Contributors: Alberti, John.
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and television series
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Simpsons (Television program)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Use a pen, Sideshow Bob": the Simpsons and the threat of high culture / David L.G. Arnold; title: Commodity culture and its discontents: Mr. Bennett, Bart Simpson, and the rhetoric of modernism / Kurt M. Koenigsberger; title: The Simpsons and Hanna-Barbera's animation legacy / Megan Mullen; title: Countercultural literacy: learning irony with the Simpsons / Kevin J.H. Dettmar; title: Homer erectus: Homer Simpson as everyman ... and every woman / Valerie Weilunn Chow; title: Who wants candy? Disenchantment in the Simpsons / Robert Sloane; title: Myth or consequences: ideological fault lines in the Simpsons / Vincent Brook; title: "So television's responsible!": oppositionality and the interpretive logic of satire and censorship in the Simpsons and South Park / William J. Savage, Jr.; title: Looking for Amanda Hugginkiss: gay life on the Simpsons / Matthew Henry; title: Releasing the hounds: the Simpsons as anti-nuclear satire / Mick Broderick; title: Local satire with a global reach: ethnic stereotyping and cross-cultural conflicts in the Simpsons / Duncan Stuart Beard; title: Bart Simpson: prince of irreverence / Douglass Rushkoff.