The Deep End of South Park: Critical Essays on Television’s Shocking Cartoon Series - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786443073 ISBN 13: 9780786443079

Verlag: McFarland, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

No American television show of the past decade has been vilified as has Comedy Central’s South Park. This is the show that has featured, in turn, a nine-year-old boy enmeshed in an affair with Ben Affleck, a maniacal Mel Gibson smearing feces everywhere, and the misadventures of Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo, a talking, bouncing, singing piece of poop. While it’s not always an exercise in good taste, South Park is a socially significant satire that has also devoted entire episodes to interpretations of Great Expectations, Ken Burns’ Civil War, and Hamlet. This volume explores the popularity and cultural relevance of South Park and its place as an artistically and politically worthy satire.

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Leslie Stratyner, a professor of English at Mississippi University for Women, lives in Columbus, Mississippi.

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No American television show of the past decade has been vilified as has Comedy Central's South Park. This is the show that has featured, in turn, a nine-year-old boy enmeshed in an affair with Ben Affleck, a maniacal Mel Gibson smearing feces everywhere, and the misadventures of Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo, a talking, bouncing, singing piece of poop. While it's not always an exercise in good taste, South Park is a socially significant satire that has also devoted entire episodes to interpretations of Great Expectations, Ken Burns' Civil War, and Hamlet. This volume explores the popularity and cultural relevance of South Park and its place as an artistically and politically worthy satire.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McFarland
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0786443073
• ISBN 13: 9780786443079
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 206
• Herausgeber: Keller James R., Stratyner Leslie
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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