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  • Saturday Night Live & American TV

    by Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz, Ron Becker ...
    Thought-provoking and "undeniably interesting" essays on this cultural institution of comedy and what it says about our society ( Booklist).Since 1975, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" has greeted late night–TV viewers looking for the best in sketch comedy and popular music. SNL is the variety show that launched the careers of countless comedians, including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sketch Comedy

    Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television

    by Nick Marx ...
    A history of sketch comedy on American television and analysis of what it says about American culture and society.In Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television, Nick Marx examines some of the genre's most memorable?and controversial?moments from the early days of television to the contemporary line-up. Through explorations of sketches from well-known shows such as Saturday Night ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Comedy Studies Reader

    Edited by Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz ...
    From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Elephant's New Shoe

    by Laurel Neme ...
    Illustrated by Ariel Landy ...
    This sweet true story stars a tiny, orphaned elephant who was given another chance.When Chhouk, an Asian elephant calf, was found, he was alone, underweight, and had a severe foot injury. Conservationist Nick Marx of Wildlife Alliance rescued the baby elephant. With help from the Cambodian Forestry Administration, the Cambodian School of Prosthetics and Orthotics, and an elephant named Lucky, Nick ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    That's Not Funny

    How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them

    by Matt Sienkiewicz, Nick Marx ...
    Narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 38 min

    A 2022 Best Comedy Book, Vulture"Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no right-wing Jon Stewart?" These sorts of questions launch a million tweets, a thousand op-eds, and more than a few scholarly analyses. That's Not Funny argues that it is both an intellectual and politically strategic mistake to assume that comedy has a liberal bias. Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx take listeners ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Watching with The Simpsons

    Television, Parody, and Intertextuality

    by Jonathan Gray ...
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    Using our favourite Springfield family as a case study, Watching with The Simpsons examines the textual and social role of parody in offering critical commentary on other television programs and genres.Jonathan Gray brings together textual theory, discussions of television and the public sphere, and ideas of parody and comedy. Including primary audience research, it focuses on how The Simpsons has ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    Fame in Contemporary Culture

    by P. David Marshall ...
    Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the famous, exploring the concept of the new public intimacy: a product of social media in which celebrities from Lady Gaga to Barack Obama are ... Read more

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  • Mad Men, Mad World

    Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s

    Edited by Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Lilya Kaganovsky, Robert A. Rushing ...
    Since the show's debut in 2007, Mad Men has invited viewers to immerse themselves in the lush period settings, ruthless Madison Avenue advertising culture, and arresting characters at the center of its 1960s fictional world. Mad Men, Mad World is a comprehensive analysis of this groundbreaking TV series. Scholars from across the humanities consider the AMC drama from a fascinating array of ... Read more

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  • Bring on the Books for Everybody

    How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture

    by Jim Collins ...
    Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah’s Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore bookshops ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • How to Watch Television, Second Edition

    Edited by Ethan Thompson, Jason Mittell ...
    Series Book 3 - User's Guides to Popular Culture
    A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the presentWe all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it “good” or “bad.” Rather, criticism uses the close examination of a television program to explore that program’s cultural significance, ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • From Mouse to Mermaid

    The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture

    Edited by Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells ...
    A collection of essays that explicate Disney ideology through fifty-five years of feature films, including Bambi, Beauty and the Beast, Pinocchio, and more.From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing children's classics as well as the Disney affiliates' more recent attempts to capture adult ... Read more

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