"Dystopia is alive and well in contemporary American society, and not least of all on the small screen. Long studied as a mass means of shrouding the headlines and the nightly news in affect in order to render intelligible an increasingly chaotic and terrifying world (removing a…
"Dystopia is alive and well in contemporary American society, and not least of all on the small screen. Long studied as a mass means of shrouding the headlines and the nightly news in affect in order to render intelligible an increasingly chaotic and terrifying world (removing a…
Explores the many ways that prime-time television played a central role in the social conflicts of the 1960's in America.
""Horrible White People" explores genre, gender, and whiteness in television"-- At the same time that right-wing political figures like Donald Trump were elected and reactionary socio-economic policies like Brexit were voted into law, representations of bleakly comic white frag…
""Horrible White People" explores genre, gender, and whiteness in television"-- At the same time that right-wing political figures like Donald Trump were elected and reactionary socio-economic policies like Brexit were voted into law, representations of bleakly comic white frag…
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 an…