Description
Humor and Satire on Contemporary Television
Animation and the American Joke
The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture Series
Author: Ezell Silas Kaine
Language: EnglishKeywords
Animated Programs; DVD Commentary; FEMA; Springfi Eld; Animated Television; Animated Television Programs; South Park; American Humor; Family Guy; American Dad; American Humorists; African American Humorists; Post-modern Texts; African American Humor; Griffi Ns; American Collective Memory; African American Culture; Jonas Brothers; Georgia Scenes; Planet Express; World War Ii Veteran; Postmodern Texts; Mark Twain; Low Brow Humor; Animated Television Shows
Publication date: 06-2020
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 05-2016
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
Description
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Preface; Irony and incongruity in American humor; Frontiers, suburbs, politics, and poop: setting, episodic structure, and the American carnivalesque in the southwest humorists and animated television programs; No laughing matter: the relationship between American humor and American collective memory and history; African-American multiculturalism in The PJs and The Boondocks; The unkindest cut: animated television programs and postmodernism; Conclusion: irony and nihilism: postmodern, or American?; Bibliography; Index.
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