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Satire TV : politics and comedy in the post-network era /

"Satirical TV has become mandatory viewing for citizens wishing to make sense of the bizarre contemporary state of political life. Shifts in industry economics and audience tastes have re-made television comedy, once considered a wasteland of escapist humor, into what is arguably the most popul...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gray, Jonathan (Jonathan Alan) (Editor ), Jones, Jeffrey P., 1963- (Editor ), Thompson, Ethan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, [2009]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The state of satire, the satire of state / Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, and Ethan Thompson
  • With all due respect : satirizing presidents from Saturday Night Live to Lil' Bush / Jeffrey P. Jones
  • Tracing the "fake" candidate in American television / Heather Osbourne-Thompson
  • And now ... the news? : Mimesis and the real in The Daily Show / Amber Day
  • Jon Stewart and The Daily Show : I thought you were going to be funny! / Joanne Morreale
  • Stephen Colbert's parody of the postmodern / Geoffrey Baym
  • Throwing out the welcome mat : public figures as guests and victims in TV satire / Jonathan Gray
  • Speaking "truth" to power? : television satire, Rick Mercer Report, and the politics of place and space / Serra Tinic
  • Why Mitt Romney won't debate a snowman / Henry Jenkins
  • Good demo, bad taste : South Park as carnivalesque satire / Ethan Thompson
  • In the wake of "The nigger pixie" : Dave Chappelle and the politics of crossover comedy / Bambi Haggins
  • Of niggas and citizens : The Boondocks fans and differentiated black American politics / Avi Santo.