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The Simpsons' beloved Springfield : essays on the TV series and town that are part of us all /

"First aired in 1989, The Simpsons has become America's most beloved animated show. It changed the world of television, bringing to the screen a cartoon for adults, a sitcom without a laugh track, an imperfect lower class family, a mixture of high and low comedy and satire for the masses....

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Waltonen, Karma, 1975- (Editor), Du Vernay, Denise, 1973- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
Subjects:
Simpsons (Television program)
Essays.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: putting the spring in Sprinfield / Karma Waltonen and Denise Du Vernay
  • The Simpsons timeline (forever incomplete) / Karma Waltonen and Denise Du Vernay
  • This town is a part of them (and us) all / Denise Du Vernay
  • The Simpsons, gender roles and witchcraft: the witch in modern popular culture / Sara Antinora
  • "Owning your okayness": the Simpsons as"good enough" parents / Summer Block
  • Be sharp: the Simpsons and music / Durrell Bowman
  • RIP in Springfield: rhetorics of death / Jennifer Richardson Burg
  • The grotesque and the beautiful: the bodies of Springfield / Brent Walter Cline and Matthew Nelson Hill
  • "Will you take us to Mt. Splashmore?": commercials and consumerism / Brian N. Duchaney
  • "I'll repress the rage I'm feeling!": food politics / Timothy L. Glenn
  • This is not a library! This is not a Kwik-E-Mart!: the satire of libraries, librarians and reference desk air-hockey tables / Casey D. Hoeve
  • Just a little kick in the bum: the Simpsons vs. the nations of the world / Travis Holland
  • "So you're calling God a liar!": an unbiased comparison of science and religion / Wm. Curtis Holtzen
  • "Animation is built on plagiarism": the Simpsons and Hitchcock, parody and Pastiche / Zachary Ingle
  • Is yellow the new green?: the banal environmentalism of the Simpsons / David Krantz
  • Fear of a yellow planet: the eight-fingered, cartoon version of anxiety / Seth Madej
  • In search of another story: satire and the Simpsons / Duncan Reyburn
  • "It's not selling out; it's co-branding!": watching and consuming the Simpsons in a digital age / Tyler Shores
  • Aristotle in Springfield: on friendship / Zachary Tavlin
  • Homer as homework: the Simpsons in the college classroom / Lisa Whalen
  • What we all came her to see
  • sex / Karma Waltonen.