(Ebook) Taking South Park Seriously 1st Edition by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ISBN 978-0791475669 0791475662

(Ebook) Taking South Park Seriously 1st Edition by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ISBN 978-0791475669 0791475662

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ISBN 10:  0791475662

ISBN 13: 978-0791475669

Author: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Collection of scholarly essays on the wildly popular Comedy Central show.

Since it came on the air in 1997, Comedy Central's top-rated animated program, South Park, has been criticized for its crude, scatological humor and political insensitivity. However, the program also fearlessly wades into the morass of American political life as it tackles and satirizes all American sacred cows, including "political correctness," the value of celebrities, ideas about childhood, and the role of religion in American life. In the process, South Park raises provocative and timely questions about politics, identity, and the media’s influence in shaping American thinking.

Taking South Park Seriously brings together scholars who explore the broader implications of South Park's immense popularity by examining the program's politics, aesthetics, and cultural impact. Topics covered include the pleasures of watching the show, South Park's relationship to other animated programs, and the program's representations of racial and ethnic minorities, the disabled, celebrities, children, religion, and education. This book will be of interest not only to communications and cultural studies scholars, but to anyone who has ever laughed along with Cartman, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny.

Contributors include Matt Becker, Jason Boyd, Lindsay Coleman, Michael W. DeLashmutt, Randall Fallows, Stephen Groening, Alison Halsall, Brannon Hancock, Brian L. Ott, Marc R. Plamondon, James Rennie, Robert Samuels, Damion Sturm, and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.

Table of contents: 

Part One The Pleasures of South Park

ONE

"Bigger Longer & Uncut": South Park and the Carnivalesque Alison Halsall

Two

The Pleasures of South Park (An Experiment in Media Erotics) Brian L. Ott

THREE

Orphic Persuasions and Siren Seductions:

Vocal Music in South Park

Jason Boyd and Marc R. Plamondon

FOUR

"Simpsons Did It":

South Park as Differential Signifier Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Part Two Identity Politics

FIVE

Freud Goes to South Park: Teaching against Postmodern Prejudices and Equal Opportunity Hatred

Robert Samuels

SIX

Cynicism and Other Postideological Half Measures in South Park

Stephen Groening

SEVEN

Shopping at J-Mart with the Williams:

Race, Ethnicity, and Belonging in South Park

Lindsay Coleman

Part Three South Park Conservatives?

EIGHT

"I Hate Hippies":

South Park and the Politics of Generation X

Matt Becker

NINE

South Park Heretics:

Confronting Orthodoxy through Theater of the Absurd Randall Fallows

TEN

Prophetic Profanity:

South Park on Religion or Thinking Theologically with Eric Cartman

Michael W. DeLashmutt and Brannon Hancock

Part Four Specific Critiques

ELEVEN

"You Know, I Learned Something Today...": Cultural Pedagogy and the Limits of Formal

Education in South Park

James Rennie

TWELVE "Omigod, It's Russell Crowe!": South Park's Assault on Celebrity Damion Sturm

List of Episodes Cited

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