Watching with the Simpsons

Watching with the Simpsons

by Gray, Jonathan

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Using our favorite Springfield family as a case study, Watching with The Simpsons examines the textual and social role of parody in offering critical commentary on other television programs and genres." "In this book, Jonathan Gray brings together textual theory, discussions of television and the public sphere, and ideas of parody and comedy. As a study, including primary audience research, it focuses on how The Simpsons has been able to talk back to three of television's key genres - the sitco…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Watching with the Simpsons / Jonathan Gray.

Summary

Using our favorite Springfield family as a case study, Watching with The Simpsons examines the textual and social role of parody in offering critical commentary on other television programs and genres." "In this book, Jonathan Gray brings together textual theory, discussions of television and the public sphere, and ideas of parody and comedy. As a study, including primary audience research, it focuses on how The Simpsons has been able to talk back to three of television's key genres - the sitcom, ads, and the news - and on how it holds the potential to short-circuit these genres' meanings, power, and effects by provoking reinterpretations and offering more media literate recontextualizations.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Taylor & Francis
  • Place of Publication:London [England]
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xii, 199 pages).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780203961360, 0203961366
  • DOI:10.5040/9780203961360
  • oclc:on1345642771
  • LC Classification:PN1992.77.S58
  • Dewey Decimal:791.4572

Table of Contents

Intertextuality and the study of texts -- Domesticom parody, genre, and critical intertextuality -- Ad parody and the logic of television -- News parody and the public sphere -- Parody and/as interpretive community -- The Simpsons attitude?

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Subjects

INTERTEXTUALITY parody Simpsons (Television program)

Writers

Gray, Jonathan

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