Satire TV Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era

Name: Satire TV Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era
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ISBN: 9780814731994

ISBN-10: 0814731996

ISBN-13: 9780814731994

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, Ethan Thompson, Jeffrey P. Jones

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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Ethan Thompson is Associate Professor at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. He is the author of Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture , and co-editor of Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era .



Foreword




Post 9/11, Post Modern, of Just Post Network?



The State of Satire, the Satire of State




With All Due Respect: Satirizing Presidents from Saturday Night Live to Lil' Bush




Tracing the "Fake" Candidate in American Television Comedy




Fake News, Real Funny



And Now... the News? Mimesis and the Real in The Daily Show




Jon Stewart and The Daily Show: I Thought You Were Going to Be Funny!




Stephen Colbert's Parody of the Postmodern




Building in the Critical Rubble: Between Deconstruction and Reconstruction



Throwing Out the Welcome Mat: Public Figures as Guests and Victims in TV Satire




Speaking "Truth" to Power? Television Satire, Rick Mercer Report, and the Politics of Place and Space




Why Mitt Romney Won't Debate a Snowman




Shock and Guffaw: The Limits of Satire



Good Demo, Bad Taste: South Park as Carnivalesque Satire




In the Wake of "The Nigger Pixie": Dave Chappelle and the Politics of Crossover Comedy




Of Niggas and Citizens: The Boondocks Fans and Differentiated Black American Politics



About the Contributors


Index