Title Humor and satire on contemporary television : animation and the American joke / Silas Kaine Ezell

Published London : Routledge, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 167 pages) Series The cultural politics of media and popular culture Cultural politics of media and popular culture. Contents 1. Irony and incongruity in American humor -- 2. Frontiers, suburbs, politics, and poop : setting, episodic structure, and the American carnivalesque in the Southwest humorists and animated television programs -- 3. No laughing matter : the relationship between American humor and American collective memory -- 4. African-American multiculturalism in The PJs and The Boondocks -- 5. The unkindest cut : animated television programs and postmodernism Summary "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"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Animated television programs -- United States -- History and criticism Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. Animated television programs Television broadcasting -- Social aspects United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 131711941X 9781317119418 9781472457738 1472457730 9781315587646 1315587645 9781317119401 1317119401

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