THE SIMPSONS ARCHIVE THE SPRINGFIELD TIMES

Leaving Springfield

The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture

Table of Contents


Introduction
John Alberti

"Use a Pen, Sideshow Bob": The Simpsons and the Threat of High Culture"
David L.G. Arnold

Commodity Culture and Its Discontents: Mr. Bennett, Bart Simpson, and the Rhetoric of Modernism
Kurt M. Koenigsberger

The Simpsons and Hanna-Barbera's Animation Legacy
Megan Mullen

Countercultural Literacy: Learning Irony with The Simpsons
Kevin J.H. Dettmar

Homer Erectus: Homer Simpson as Everyman... and Every Woman
Valerie Weilunn Chow

Who Wants Candy? Disenchantment in The Simpsons
Rob Sloane

Myth or Consequences: Ideological Fault Lines in The Simpsons
Vincent Brook

"So Television's Responsible!": Oppositionality and the Interpretive Logic of Satire and Censorship in The Simpsons and South Park
William J. Savage, Jr.

Looking for Amanda Hugginkiss: Gay Life on The Simpsons
Matthew Henry

Releasing the Hounds: The Simpsons As Anti-Nuclear Satire
Mick Broderick

Local Satire with a Global Reach: Ethnic Stereotyping and Cross-Cultural
Conflicts in The Simpsons
Duncan Stuart Beard

Bart Simpson, Prince of Irreverence
Douglass Rushkoff

Leaving Springfield
By John Alberti (editor)
Wayne State University Press
ISBN 0814328490
MSRP $21.95


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