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Watching with The Simpsons : television, parody, and intertextuality / Jonathan Gray.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.77.S58 G73 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gray, Jonathan (Jonathan Alan)
- Series:
- Comedia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Simpsons (Television program).
- Intertextuality.
- Parody.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 199 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2006.
- Summary:
- Using our favorite Springfield family as a case study, Watching with The Simpsons examines the textual and social role of parody in offering critical commentary on other television programs and genres. In this book, Jonathan Gray brings together textual theory, discussions of television and the public sphere, and ideas of parody and comedy. As a study, including primary audience research, it focuses on how The Simpsons has been able to talk back to three of television's key genres - the sitcom, ads, and the news - and on how it holds the potential to short-circuit these genres' meanings, power, and effects by provoking reinterpretations and offering more media literate recontextualizations.
- Through examining television and media studies theory, the text of The Simpsons, and the show's audience, Gray attempts to fully situate the show's parodic humor within the lived realities of its audiences. In doing so, he further explores the possibilities for popular entertainment television - and particularly comedy - to discuss issues of political and social importance.
- Contents:
- Part I Reading through intertextuality 17
- 1 Intertextuality and the study of texts 19
- Part II Watching with The Simpsons 41
- 2 Domesticom parody, genre, and critical intertextuality 43
- 3 The logic of television and ad parody 69
- 4 News parody and the public sphere 94
- Part III Talking with The Simpsons 117
- 5 Parody and/as interpretive community 119
- 6 'The Simpsons attitude' 142.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415362032
- 0415362024
- OCLC:
- 60402018
- Publisher Number:
- 9780415362030 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780415362023 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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