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Author : Whitmore Brent Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book From Barthes to Bart Simpson written by Whitmore Brent Allen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Irwin
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0812694333
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Simpsons and Philosophy written by William Irwin and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here we can find out about irony and the meaning of life, the politics of the nuclear family, Marxism in Springfield, the elusiveness of happiness, popular parody as a form of tribute, and why we need animated TV shows. As if all that weren't enough, this book actually contains the worst philosophy essay ever.
Author : William Irwin
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459601157
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Simpsons and Philosophy written by William Irwin and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Simpsons is one of the most literary and intelligent comedies on television today - fertile ground for questions such as: Does Nietzsche justify Bart's bad behavior? Is hypocrisy always unethical? What is Lisa's conception of the Good? From the editor of and contributors to the widely-praised Seinfeld and Philosophy, The Simpsons and Philosophy is an insightful and humorous look at the philosophical tenets of America's favorite animated family that will delight Simpsons fans and philosophy aficionados alike. Twenty-one philosophers and academics discuss and debate the absurd, hyper-ironic, strangely familiar world that is Springfield, the town without a state. n exploring the thought of key philosophers including Aristotle, Marx, Camus, Sartre, Heidegger, and Kant through episode plots and the characters' antics, the contributors tackle issues like irony and the meaning of life, American anti-intellectualism, and existential rebellion. The volume also includes an episode guide and a chronology of philosophers which lists the names and dates of the major thinkers in the history of philosophy, accompanied by a representative quote from each. Contributors: David L.G. Arnold, Daniel Barwick, Eric Bronson, Paul A. Cantor, Mark T. Conard, Gerald J. Erion, Raja Halwani, Jason Holt, William Irwin, Kelley Dean Jolley, Deborah Knight, James Lawler, J.R. Lombardo, Carl Matheson, Jennifer L. McMahon, Aeon J. Skoble, Dale E. and James J. Snow, David Vessey, James J. Wallace, and Joseph A. Zeccardi ''Each essay provides a hilarious but incisive springboard to some aspect of philosophy. ''
Author : Sunil Manghani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415573408
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Image Studies written by Sunil Manghani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Image Studies provides an engaging introduction to visual studies analysis and an account of existing and emergent visual culture debates, along with chapters on a range of topics, including: consumer culture and identity; photography and digital imaging; painting and drawing; the moving image; the relationship between image and text (including reference to text in art, comics and animation); and scientific imaging. Written in an engaging and accessible way, the text will also include extracts of existing critical materials. Each chapter will include key set readings, including short extracts from existing literatures with accompanying study notes and questions. The chapters will also include a range of critical and creative tasks, designed to bring the academic study of visual culture into direct contact with practical aspects of visual culture and image-making. Image Studies is a new text aimed predominantly at undergraduate students in visual culture, but which will also be useful for media studies students and arts students more generally"--
Author : Mirja Quix
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668010048
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The depiction of Popular Culture with "The Simpsons" in Anne Washburn's "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play" written by Mirja Quix and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: The London Stage, language: English, abstract: A main objective of The Simpsons series seems to be to take every day issues and world events as a part of its stories and to deal with them in a satirical way. While it also concerns itself with apparently banal issues like popular movies or bands, war, politics or nuclear power do not make an exception in the series’ content. Mick Broderick points out, that “while many episodes ostensibly do not touch on nuclear themes, the ever- present influence and immanence of the atomic age pervades The Simpsons like a thematic half- life whose motifs contaminate the multi- layered, intertextual narratives of each episode, often as satire.” At this background, Anne Washburn’s decision to take The Simpsons, of all things, as the one part of popular culture that survives inside the people’s memories throughout a nuclear apocalypse, seems even more peculiar and ironic. But that’s just what happens in Washburn’s “Mr. Burns – A post- electric play”. The electric grid is destroyed and people have to adapt to a world without telephones, television, electric stoves or radiators. They have to revert to older ways of engagement, like storytelling, but instead of higher literature they reminisce about parts of popular culture everyone remembers. The following paper therefore will analyse Anne Washburn’s play in regard to the way popular culture is represented in her post- apocalyptic world. Why is it important and why is The Simpsons Washburn’s main representative of contemporary popular culture in the play? And, moreover, in which ways does the representational form of popular culture change throughout it?
Author : John Ortved
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780865479395
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (793 download)
Download or read book The Simpsons written by John Ortved and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-scenes history of the popular animated series traces its rise from an animated short on "The Tracy Ullman Show" to a mainstream institution, while exposing alleged clashes between its studio executives and creative producers.
Author : Jane Batkin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317533259
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Identity in Animation written by Jane Batkin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity in Animation: A Journey into Self, Difference, Culture and the Body uncovers the meaning behind some of the most influential characters in the history of animation and questions their unique sense of who they are and how they are formed. Jane Batkin explores how identity politics shape the inner psychology of the character and their exterior motivation, often buoyed along by their questioning of ‘place’ and ‘belonging’ and driven by issues of self, difference, gender and the body. Through this, Identity in Animation illustrates and questions the construction of stereotypes as well as unconventional representations within American, European and Eastern animation. It does so with examples such as the strong gender tropes of Japan’s Hayao Miyazaki, the strange relationships created by Australian director Adam Elliot and Nick Park’s depiction of Britishness. In addition, this book discusses Betty Boop’s sexuality and ultimate repression, Warner Bros’ anarchic, self-aware characters and Disney’s fascinating representation of self and society. Identity in Animation is an ideal book for students and researchers of animation studies, as well as any media and film studies students taking modules on animation as part of their course.
Author : Jackie Raphael
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900436532X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Disassembling the Celebrity Figure written by Jackie Raphael and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disassembling the Celebrity Figure: Credibility and the Incredible questions the credibility of celebrity brands, exploring how fandoms depend on perceptions and representations of authenticity. It asks how authenticity is projected by global celebrities, and how fans consume these carefully curated personas, and explores how the media breaks down barriers between celebrities and fans. It presents a discussion of celebrities as brands, exploring how their images are maintained after they pass away. It also offers analysis of the ways in which historical figures are later reconstructed as celebrities, and explores how their images are circulated and consumed across contemporary media. Ultimately, the book examines authenticity in celebrity culture by looking at fandom, media representation, branding and celebrity deaths. Contributors are Marie Josephine Bennett, Lise Dilling-Nielsen, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Mingyi Hou, Renata Iwicka, Ephraim Das Janssen, Magdalen Wing-Chi Ki, Celia Lam, Mirella Longo, Aliah Mansor, Jackie Raphael and Millicent Weber.
Author : Karma Waltonen
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786456922
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Simpsons in the Classroom written by Karma Waltonen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The object of much debate, attention, and scholarship since it first aired more than 20 years ago, The Simpsons provides excellent, if unexpected, fodder for high school and college lesson plans. After all, laughing students are hardly sleeping students! But The Simpsons also provides a familiar student knowledge base which instructors can use as a jumping-off point to introduce concepts in literature, composition, linguistics, cultural studies, gender studies, and media appreciation. The authors, both of whom have been teaching The Simpsons for more than a decade, share exercises, prompts, and even syllabi that have proven successful in their own courses. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : David Williams
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739143972
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Trickster Brain written by David Williams and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, scientific and literary cultures have existed side-by-side but most often in parallel universes, without connection. The Trickster Brain: Neuroscience, Evolution, and Nature by David Williams addresses the premise that humans are a biological species stemming from the long process of evolution, and that we do exhibit a universal human nature, given to us through our genes. From this perspective, literature is shown to be a product of our biological selves. By exploring central ideas in neuroscience, evolutionary biology, linguistics, music, philosophy, ethics, religion, and history, Williams shows that it is the circuitry of the brain’s hard-wired dispositions that continually create similar tales around the world: “archetypal” stories reflecting ancient tensions that arose from our evolutionary past and the very construction of our brains. The book asserts that to truly understand literature, one must look at the biological creature creating it. By using the lens of science to examine literature, we can see how stories reveal universal aspects of the biological mind. The Trickster character is particularly instructive as an archetypal character who embodies a raft of human traits and concerns, for Trickster is often god, devil, musical, sexual, silver tongued, animal, and human at once, treading upon the moral dictates of culture. Williams brings together science and the humanities, demonstrating a critical way of approaching literature that incorporates scientific thought.
Author : David Blakesley
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809328291
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (282 download)
Download or read book The Terministic Screen written by David Blakesley and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2007-09-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film examines the importance of rhetoric in the study of film and film theory. Rhetorical approaches to film studies have been widely practiced, but rarely discussed until now. Taking on such issues as Hollywood blacklisting, fascistic aesthetics, and postmodern dialogics, editor David Blakesley presents fifteen critical essays that examine rhetoric’s role in such popular films as The Fifth Element, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Usual Suspects, Deliverance, The English Patient, Pulp Fiction, The Music Man, Copycat, Hoop Dreams,and A Time to Kill. Aided by sixteen illustrations, these insightful essays consider films rhetorically, as ways of seeing and not seeing, as acts that dramatize how people use language and images to tell stories and foster identification. Contributors include David Blakesley, Alan Nadel, Ann Chisholm, Martin J. Medhurst, Byron Hawk, Ekaterina V. Haskins, James Roberts, Thomas W. Benson, Philip L. Simpson, Davis W. Houck, Caroline J.S. Picart, Friedemann Weidauer, Bruce Krajewski, Harriet Malinowitz, Granetta L. Richardson, and Kelly Ritter.
Author : David Gallagher
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300847689
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Castle & Other Tales written by David Gallagher and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-17 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castle & Other Tales is the second collection of short stories by David Gallagher. It includes: The Castle, The Trial, Jars, The Box, Customer Service, Harassment Record, Jars II, The Outsider, A Gold Rush (2004), Hiltenspergerstraße and The Walkman.
Author : Donald E. Pease
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822314929
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (149 download)
Download or read book National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives written by Donald E. Pease and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National narratives create imaginary relations within imagined communities called national peoples. But in the American narrative, alongside the nexus of belonging established for the national community, the national narrative has represented other peoples (women, blacks, "foreigners", the homeless) from whom the property of nationness has been removed altogether and upon whose differences from them the national people depended for the construction of their norms. Dismantling this opposition has become the task of post-national (Post-Americanist) narratives, bent on changing the assumptions that found the "national identity." This volume, originally published as a special issue of bounrary 2, focuses on the process of assembling and dismantling the American national narrative(s), sketching its inception and demolition. The contributors examine various cultural, political, and historical sources--colonial literature, mass movements, epidemics of disease, mass spectacle, transnational corporations, super-weapons, popular magazines, literary texts--out of which this narrative was constructed, and propose different understandings of nationality and identity following in its wake. Contributors. Jonathan Arac, Lauren Berlant, Robert J. Corber, Elizabeth Freeman, Kathryn V. Lingberg, Jack Matthews, Alan Nadel, Patrick O'Donnell, Daniel O'Hara, Donald E. Pease, Ross Posnock, John Carlos Rowe, Rob Wilson
Author : Bart Simpson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782914593069
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Mon guide de la vie written by Bart Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tu as hâte de connaître toute la vérité, mec ? Alors dévore ce livre petit mais costaud, plein de savoureux morceaux d'humour, de sagesse et de connaissance universelle, préparé pour toi par le seul et unique Bartholomew J Simpson - découvre la vie brute de décoffrage révélée par le gars qui a tout vu, tout entendu, tout fait - mais qui niera tout.
Author : Jessica Milner Davis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319567748
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Satire and Politics written by Jessica Milner Davis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the multi-media explosion of contemporary political satire. Rooted in 18th century Augustan practice, satire’s indelible link with politics underlies today’s universal disgust with the ways of elected politicians. This study interrogates the impact of British and American satirical media on political life, with a special focus on political cartoons and the levelling humour of Australasian satirists.
Author : Daniel Ira Goldmark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520950127
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Funny Pictures written by Daniel Ira Goldmark and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom’s earliest days through the twentieth century. Written by a who’s who of animation authorities, Funny Pictures offers a stimulating range of views on why animation became associated with comedy so early and so indelibly, and illustrates how animation and humor came together at a pivotal stage in the development of the motion picture industry. To examine some of the central assumptions about comedy and cartoons and to explore the key factors that promoted their fusion, the book analyzes many of the key filmic texts from the studio years that exemplify animated comedy. Funny Pictures also looks ahead to show how this vital American entertainment tradition still thrives today in works ranging from The Simpsons to the output of Pixar.
Author : Theo Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351735195
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book The Rhetorical Word written by Theo Hobson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003:This book offers a bold reading of Protestant tradition from a rhetorical and literary perspective. Arguing that Protestant thought is based in a rhetorical performance of authority, Hobson draws on a wide range of modern and postmodern thought to defend this account of rhetorical authority from various charges of authoritarianism. With close readings of Augustine, Luther, Kierkegaard and Barth, this book develops a new 'rhetorical theology of the Word' and also a new critique of secular modernity, with particular reference to modern literature and the thought of Nietzsche. Confronting the related issues of rhetoric and authority, Hobson provides a provocative account of modern theology which offers new perspectives on theology's relationship to literature and postmodern thought.
