Taking South Park SeriouslyJeffrey Andrew Weinstock SUNY Press, 11 sep 2008 - 254 pagina's 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. |
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Bigger Longer Uncut South Park and the Carnivalesque | 23 |
The Pleasures of South Park An Experiment in Media Erotics | 39 |
Orphic Persuasions and Siren Seductions | 59 |
Simpsons Did It South Parkas Differential Signifier | 79 |
Identity Politics | 97 |
Freud Goes to South Park Teaching against Postmodern Prejudices and Equal Opportunity Hatred | 99 |
Cynicism and Other Postideological Half Measures in South Park | 113 |
Shopping at JMart with the Williams Race Ethnicity and Belonging in South Park | 131 |
South Park Heretics Confronting Orthodoxy through Theater of the Absurd | 165 |
Prophetic Profanity South Park on Religion or Thinking Theologically with Eric Cartman | 173 |
Specific Critiques | 193 |
You Know I Learned Something Today Cultural Pedagogy and the Limits of Formal Education in South Park | 195 |
Omigod Its Russell Crowe South Parks Assault on Celebrity | 209 |
List of Episodes Cited | 227 |
Complete Episode Guide Seasons 111 | 233 |
Contributors | 243 |
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