Trick, treat, transgress : the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror as a cultural history of the digital age / Sandra Danneil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Danneil, Sandra, author.

Series:

Marburger Schriften zur Medienforschung ; 89.

Marburger Schriften zur Medienforschung ; 89

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Simpsons (Television program).

Popkultur.

Serialität.

Culture.

Local Subjects:

Popkultur.

Serialität.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 pages)

Edition:

1. Aufl.

Place of Publication:

Marburg : Schüren, [2021]

Summary:

Long description: Die Simpsons sind nicht nur die berühmteste Fernseh-Familie der Welt; The Simpsons ist zudem eine der langlebigsten TV-Animationsserien der amerikanischen Fernsehgeschichte. Im Laufe von über dreißig Jahren sind die gelben Fünf aus Springfield zu einem weltweit bekannten Phänomen herangewachsen, das Akademiker zu Fans und Fans zu Akademikern macht. Die kultur- und medienwissenschaftliche Dissertation behandelt einen Teil der Serie, der von der Forschung bislang nicht beachtet wurde, die Halloween-Serie Treehouse of Horror. Es war das Ziel dieses Projekts, das Halloween special als subversiven Abkömmling von The Simpsons einer genauen Untersuchung zu unterziehen. Treehouse ist ein serieller Anthologie-Zyklus, der seit 1990 in dreißig Episoden eine ganz eigene, unabhängige Form komplexer Serialität und Narration entwickelt hat. Eine Grundannahme dieser Arbeit ist, dass The Simpsons die Art und Weise revolutioniert hat, wie wir durch das Fernsehen heute auf die US-amerikanische Kultur und Gesellschaft blicken. Die Autorin nimmt außerdem an, dass Treehouse of Horror einen entscheidenden Einfluss darauf hat, wie wir auf die westliche Populärkultur des Horrors zurückschauen und in welcher Form wir uns an sie erinnern. Da kulturwissenschaftliche Fragestellungen zu The Simpsons vor allem im englischsprachigen Raum in den vergangenen zwanzig Jahren hinlänglich beantwortet werden konnten, richten sich die zentralen Fragestellungen dieser Arbeit darauf, inwiefern Treehouse of Horror für eine neue Tradition innerhalb der US-amerikanischen Populärkultur steht, die bereits Ende der 1980er Jahre mediale Mythen zu hinterfragen begann. Wie hat die Treehouse-Serie den Dialog zwischen Zuschauern des digitalen Zeitalters und Texten der Vergangenheit angeregt? Wie hat der Zyklus durch die Remediation populärkultureller Texte Zuschauer dazu angespornt, mediale Inhalte zu kommentieren und sie auf ihre eigene Lesepraxis anzuwenden? Und schließlich: Wie archiviert die Animationsserie populäres Material der Vergangenheit so, dass ihr zeitgenössisches Publikum bereit ist, diese historischen Medientexte neu zu entdecken und sie kritisch zu hinterfragen?

Long description: The Simpsons is not only the most famous television family in the world; The Simpsons is also one of the longest running animated TV series in American television history. Over the course of more than thirty years, the yellow five from Springfield have grown into a worldwide phenomenon that turns academics into fans and fans into academics. This dissertation in cultural and media studies deals with a part of the series that has so far been ignored by researchers, the Halloween series Treehouse of Horror. It was the aim of this project to subject the Halloween special to close scrutiny as a subversive descendant of The Simpsons. Treehouse is a serial anthology cycle that has developed its own independent form of complex seriality and narration in thirty episodes since 1990. A basic assumption of this thesis is that The Simpsons has revolutionised the way we look at US culture and society through television today. The author also assumes that Treehouse of Horror has a decisive influence on how we look back on Western popular culture of horror and in what form we remember it.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Danksagung

1 Introduction

The Beginnings: Fox &amp

The Simpsons

The Simpsons: A Non-Affirmative Part of Popular Culture

The Beginning of Thinking Seriously About Television

TV Studies

or, How to Establish an Independent Discipline

The Simpsons is 'Us:' The Early Days of Participatory Culture

Why This Book Needs to be Written

The Simpsons, Postmodernism, and Popular-Culture Studies: Between Fans and the ACAdemy

The Simpsons, Popular Culture, and Postmodern Theory: Matthew A. Henry and John Alberti

Postmodernism &amp

Popular Satire

From The Simpsons to Treehouse of Horror: Popular Genre Mixing &amp

Adult Animation

The Simpsons' Halloween Special Cycle

TREEHOUSE OF HORROR: Time Travel through American Pop-Culture History

Popular-Culture History of the Digital Age: Theory, History, Analysis

To Be Continued?

2 Theory | The Simpsons and Postmodernity

Postmodernism: A Perfect Cromulent Wor(l)d?

When Postmodernism went Popular Culture

Asking with Umberto Eco: Is THE SIMPSONS as the 'Low' Ground of 'High' Art?

Cartoon Clichés and Homeric Profundity in "The Simpsons Guy"

Angela McRobbie: Popular-Culture Representations in THE SIMPSONS

Lisa the Wholesome: Feminist Representations in 1990s America

Bart The Trickster: 1990s' Boyhood between Boomer Enthusiasm and the Age of Innocence Lost

Homer the Everyman: Representations of 1990s' Marginalized Masculinity

Wrapping up McRobbie: Thinking about Culture Wars with The Simpsons

Linda Hutcheon: Postmodern Parody in THE SIMPSONS

Appealing to the Masses: Walt Disney, Matt Groening, and the Different Ways of Cartoon Storytelling

Morality according to THE SIMPSONS: Re-Telling Tales of Human Defectiveness and Mistaken Emancipation

Rethinking THE SIMPSONS' Parody: The Antithetical Gaze &amp.

Cartoon Layering

Parody, Popular History, and TREEHOUSE OF HORROR as Historiographic Metafiction

Michel Foucault: Reading TREEHOUSE OF HORROR as Popular-Culture History Archive

THE SIMPSONS' Archive: Order of Disorder, or The Re-Organization of History

The Language of TREEHOUSE OF HORROR: Reinventing American Halloween TV

Remediation makes a New Archive: Repurposing Practices in TREEHOUSE OF HORROR

THE SIMPSONS, A Funhouse Mirror: A Conclusion

3 Analysis | Treehouse of Horror: Lessons to Remember

Opening Credits | THE SIMPSONS' TREEHOUSE OF HORROR Teaches Lessons to Remember

What is TREEHOUSE OF HORROR? - The Boom of the 'Danse Macabre'

American Broadcasting Traditions: In the Beginning there was the Radio

TREEHOUSE OF HORROR Exclusives: Title Cards &amp

Wraparound

Serial Memory &amp

Simulated Continuity: Recurring Elements

Recurring Elements 1: Kang &amp

Kodos

Recurring Elements 2: The Couch Gag and its History

TREEHOUSE OF HORROR's Major Influences:EC Comics' Scary Names &amp

"The New Trend"

TREEHOUSE OF HORROR: Anthology Structure &amp

Portmanteau Films

From Radio to Comics to TV to Cinema: Adaptation &amp

Genre Mixing in TREEHOUSE OF HORROR

What We've Learned So Far …

History Lesson No. 1 | Animation Auteurs and Auteur Television: Analyzing THE SIMPSONS' Couch Gag as Means of Participatory Culture

Television: A Producer's Medium

The Contemporary Television Auteur

THE SIMPSONS' Auteurs: Fans, Filmmakers, Freaks

The 'Real' Animation Auteurs: Revisiting THE SIMPSONS with Kricfalusi, Chomet, Plympton

Auteurs' Crossover Sphere of THE SIMPSONS' Couch Gag

Banksy: Street-Art Auteur for the Masses

Fan Art, Lee Hardcastle, and the Limits of Participation.

The Collaborative Space of the Animated Archive: TREEHOUSE OF HORROR, Guillermo del Toro, and Genre Memorabi

Conclusion: Animation Auteurs, Auteur Television, And Participatory Culture

History Lesson No. 2 | The Literary Legacy of American Gothic Fiction: Complex Television &amp

TREEHOUSE OF HORROR

The Modern Horror Story and its Literary Touchstones

Developing its Own Language - The Gothic of TREEHOUSE OF HORROR

Initial Thoughts: The 'Gothic Mode' as Critical Activity

Second Set of Thoughts: A Mode is not a Genre - TREEHOUSE OF HORROR's Gothic Ways of Making Us Look at the World

Third Set of Thoughts: History 'Revives' Itself - The Gothic's Mode of Genre Participation

TREEHOUSE OF HORROR and Narrative Complexity on the Series' Own Medium Terms

Transgressing Genre Boundaries: TREEHOUSE OF HORROR's "The Island of Dr. Hibbert" &amp

the Production of TV Horror

Popular Gothic Fiction, Form, and Forensic Fandom: TREEHOUSE OF HORROR's "The Raven"

Conclusion: The Complexity of Cartoon Storytelling in TREEHOUSE OF HORROR

History Lesson No. 3 | Exotic Islands, Haunted Houses, and Home Invasions: TREEHOUSE OF HORROR's Cinematic Archive

Objects for Cinematic Horror: Television / Monsters / Abnormal Homes

TREEHOUSE OF HORROR and the Strange Site of Television

'Filling the Vacuum' I: ToH's "The Terror of Tiny Toon"

'Filling the Vacuum' II: ToH's "UNnormal Activity"

'Filling the Vacuum' III: ToH's "The Others"

Hollywood at Home: TREEHOUSE OF HORROR and Pre-Code Hollywood

Animating Hollywood Controversy I: Freaks and ToH's "Freaks, No Geeks"

Animating Hollywood Controversy II: KING KONG's Fever Dreams of the East and ToH's "King Homer"

New Scares, Economic Nightmares, and Haunted Hotels: ToH's '80s-Horror Retrospectives

ToH's '80s-Horror Retrospective I: New Scares.

ToH's '80s-Horror Retrospective II: Economic Nightmares and "Bad Dream House"

ToH's '80s-Horror Retrospective III: Made-for-TV Cartoon Horror and "The Shinning"

Conclusion: Horror (Begins) at Home

History Lesson No. 4 | 'A Treehouse full of Twilight Zones' - The Legacy of 1960s' Anthology Storytelling, Science-Fiction TV, and TREEHOUSE OF HORROR's Love Letter to Rod Serling's THE TWILIGHT ZONE

Television's Unrelated Storytelling: the Anthology

Some Historical Notes on the Formula in THE TWILIGHT ZONE

Disintegrating American Ideology with TREEHOUSE OF HORROR's "The Bart Zone" (Fox 1991)

Do 'Gen Xers' Dream of the Future? - TREEHOUSE OF HORROR's "Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off"

Thwarting Audience Expectation with Open Closure in TREEHOUSE OF HORROR's "Terror at 5 1/2 Feet"

Rope-a-Dope with American Angst in TREEHOUSE OF HORROR's "Hungry are the Damned"

Revenge on the Baby Boomers: Dysfunctional Masculinity in TREEHOUSE OF HORROR's "Clown Without Pity"

Science Fiction Becomes Real: 3-D Animation and TREEHOUSE OF HORROR's "Homer3"

Conclusion: The Treehouse That Matt Built on Rod's Property

4 Conclusion | A Popular-Culture History of the Digital Age

THE SIMPSONS' TREEHOUSE OF HORROR under the Microscope of Postmodern Pop-Culture Theory

TREEHOUSE OF HORROR: Lessons to re-member

Finally: What Comes After THE SIMPSONS?

5 References

6 Appendix

TREEHOUSE OF HORROR Episode Guide

TREEHOUSE OF HORROR Reference Guide

Guest-Animated Couch-Gag Guide: THE SIMPSONS &amp

List of Figures

Index

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Notes:

PublicationDate: 20210813

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783741001451

3741001457

OCLC:

1266908842