Humor and Satire on Contemporary Television: Animation and the American Joke - Rilegato

Ezell, Silas Kaine

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ISBN 10: 1472457722 ISBN 13: 9781472457721

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2016

Riassunto

This book examines contemporary American animated humor, focusing on popular animated television shows in order to explore the ways in which they engage with American culture and history, employing a peculiarly American way of using humor to discuss important cultural issues. With attention to the work of American humorists, such as the Southwest humorists, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, and Kurt Vonnegut, and the question of the extent to which modern animated satire shares the qualities of earlier humor, particularly the use of setting, the carnivalesque, collective memory, racial humor, and irony, Humor and Satire on Contemporary Television concentrates on a particular strand of American humor: the use of satire to expose the gap between the American ideal and the American experience. Taking up the notion of ’The Great American Joke’, the author examines the discursive humor of programmes such as The Simpsons, South Park , Family Guy , King of the Hill, Daria, American Dad!, The Boondocks, The PJs and Futurama . A study of how animated television programmes offer a new discourse on a very traditional strain of American humor, this book will appeal to scholars and students of popular culture, television and media studies, American literature and visual studies, and contemporary humor and satire.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Silas Kaine Ezell is Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University, USA

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1472457722
• ISBN 13: 9781472457721
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 178
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