Seeing Mad : essays on Mad magazine's humor and legacy / edited by Judith Yaross Lee and John Bird.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, Judith Yaross, 1949- editor.

Bird, John, 1954- editor.

Project Muse.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mad.

American wit and humor--History and criticism.

American wit and humor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 596 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I. The Usual Gang

Inside the Editorial Process: Mad Veterans Jaffee and Meglin Look at Their Editors / Paul Levitz

Harvey Kurtzman and Modern American Satire / M. Thomas Inge

Al Feldstein and Mad's Humor of Social Critique / Margaret Cavin Hambrick

Wally Wood: Picturing Male Adolescent Sexuality in Mad's Early Parodies / Joseph W. Slade

The Lighter

and Weightier

Side of Mad, Or, Everything I Needed to Know About Gender and Sexuality I Learned from Dave Berg / Ann M. Ciasullo

Part II. Features from Cover to Fold-In

The Secret History of Alfred E. Neuman / Alan Rankin

The 'Mad 20' with Alfred E. Neuman, Or, It's the Covers, Stupid / Christopher J. Gilbert

The Prohías Paradox: The Cold War Specificity and Existential Universality of 'Spy vs. Spy' / Michael J. Socolow

Mad About Poe: Poetry in a Jugular Vein / Dennis W. Eddings

Sing Along with Alfred: Humor, Satire, and Culture in the Music of Mad / John Bird

You Always Hurt the Ones You Love: Mad Magazine's Affectionate Parodies of Beloved Film Classics / Don Baird

A Golden Age of Blecch: Mad Magazine's Parodic Satire of Quality Television / Ethan Thompson

Folding Against the Establishment: Satiric Distance and Difference in Al Jaffee's Back Cover Feature in Mad Magazine / Kerry Soper

Part III. Themes

A Secular Talmud: The Jewish Sensibility of Mad Magazine / Nathan Abrams

Mutually Assured Disparagement: Enmification and Enlightenment in Early 1950s Mad / James J. Kimble

Diplomats Gone Mad: A Musical Rumble / James D. Bloom

Joining the Fray? Mad on Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew / Nicolas Labarre

Part IV. Theories

'Comedy before Country': Engaged Levity and Absurdist Critique in Mad Magazine / Jeff St. Onge

Genre Studies and Mad Magazine: Changing and Challenging Genres, 1953-1966 / Kathleen Mollick

Part V. Legacies

Sons of Mad: Harvey Kurtzman and the Rise of Underground Comix (an Alternate-Universe Analysis) / Nicholas Sammond

Quotations from the Future: Harvey Kurtzman's 'Superduperman,' Nostalgia, and Alan Moore's Miracleman / Brian Cremins

Part VI. Resources

Mad's 'Usual Gang of Idiots': Selected Capsule Biographies / Joe Otto and Judith Yaross Lee

A Mad Timeline, 1952 to 2020 / Leah Szalai and Judith Yaross Lee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 19, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Seeing Mad

ISBN:

9780826274489

082627448X

Publisher Number:

40030154617

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.