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No American television show of the past decade has been vilified as has Comedy Central's South Park. This is the show that has featured, in turn, a nine-year-old boy enmeshed in an affair with Ben Affleck, a maniacal Mel Gibson smearing feces everywhere, and the misadventures of Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo, a talking, bouncing, singing piece of poop. While it's not always an exercise in good taste, South Park is a socially significant satire that has also devoted entire episodes to interpretations of Great Expectations, Ken Burns' Civil War, and Hamlet. This volume explores the popularity and cultural relevance of South Park and its place as an artistically and politically worthy satire.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: An Unofficial Explanation and Brief History of South Park
LESLIE STRATYNER and JAMES R. KELLER
1. Kierkegaard, Contradiction, and South Park: The Jester's View of Religion
LORI LIPOMA
2. Truthiness and Consequences: Chewbacca and the Defense of Political Perfection
RICHARD JOHNSTON and DAVID MCAVOY
3. "Yon Fart Doth Smell of Elderberries Sweet": South Park and Shakespeare
ANNE GOSSAGE
4. Bloody Mayhem 7, Life Lessons 0: The Depiction of Youth Sports
KATHARINE KITTREDGE
5. Miss Information: Consumer Excess, Health Care and Historical Guilt in "Cherokee Hair Tampons"
JOLENE ARMSTRONG
6. Facts, Fatsos, and Fascism: South Park's Interrogation of Anti-Tobacco Legislation
BRENNAN M. THOMAS
7. Bridging the Cultural Divide: Moderation and Tolerance of GLBT Communities
BRADLEY EVANS
8. A Carnival in the Rainforest: Familiarizing Environmental Rhetoric
DEIDRE PIKE
9. Canada and Saddam in South Park: Aboot Allah
DANIEL KEYES
10. "Yes I Am, Cartman!": Kyle Broflovski's Cool Judaism
KENNETH R. MOREFIELD
11. "Among School Children": Lacan and the South Park Felt Board Lesson
JAMES R. KELLER
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