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| Author | : Jeffrey P. Jones |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2010-12-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0742565297 |
In this completely revised and updated edition (including eight new chapters), Jeffrey Jones charts the evolution and maturation of political entertainment television by examining The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Politically Incorrect/Real Time with Bill Maher, and Michael Moore's TV Nation and The Awful Truth. This volume investigates how and why these shows have been central locations for the critique of political and economic power and an important resource for citizens during numerous political crises. In an age of Truthiness, fake news and humorous political talk have proven themselves viable forms of alternative reporting and critical means for ascertaining truth, and in the process, questioning the legitimacy of news media's role as the primary mediator of political life. The book also addresses the persistent claims that these programs have cynical effects and create misinformed young citizens, demonstrating instead how such programming provides for an informed, active, and meaningful citizenship. The new edition takes account of the many changes that have occurred in television and political culture since Entertaining Politics' initial release.
| Author | : Jonathan Gray |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2009-04 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 0814731996 |
This work examines what happens when comedy becomes political, and politics become funny. A series of original essays focus on a range of programmes, from 'The Daily Show' to 'South Park'.
| Author | : Jeffrey P. Jones |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780742530881 |
Contrary to arguments that television is detrimental to democracy, Entertaining Politics explores the role of new political television in shaping a changing civic culture. Jeffrey P. Jones shows how viewers understand and make use of the increasingly blurred lines between 'serious' and 'entertainment' programming and argues that alarmist critics who predict the end of politics in the age of television have misconstrued the role of the medium and the commitment of audiences to both TV and public life. Visit our website for sample chapters!
| Author | : Doyle Greene |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2015-01-28 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476608296 |
This work examines the unique and ever-changing relationship between politics and comedy through an analysis of several popular American television programs. Focusing on close readings of the work of Ernie Kovacs, Soupy Sales, and Andy Kaufman, as well as Green Acres and The Gong Show, the author provides a unique glimpse at the often subversive nature of avant-garde television comedy. The crisis in American television during the political unrest of the late 1960s is also studied, as represented by individual analyses of The Monkees, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, and All in the Family. The author also focuses on more contemporary American television, drawing a comparative analysis between the referential postmodernism of The Simpsons and the confrontational absurdity of South Park.
| Author | : Geoffrey Baym |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2013-09-13 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1135751641 |
In recent years, the US fake news program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has become a surprisingly important source of information, conversation, and commentary about public affairs. Perhaps more surprisingly, so-called 'fake news' is now a truly global phenomenon, with various forms of news parody and political satire programming appearing throughout the world. This collection of innovative chapters takes a close and critical look at global news parody from a wide range of countries including the USA and the UK, Italy and France, Hungary and Romania, Israel and Palestine, Iran and India, Australia, Germany, and Denmark. Traversing a range of national cultures, political systems, and programming forms, News Parody and Political Satire Across the Globe offers insight into the central and perhaps controversial role that news parody has come to play in the world, and explores the multiple forces that enable and constrain its performance. It will help readers to better understand the intersections of journalism, politics, and comedy as they take shape across the globe in a variety of political and media systems. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Popular Communication.
| Author | : A. Dagnes |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2012-09-06 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137270349 |
Conservative critics argue that modern political satire, in the age of The Daily Show, has a liberal bias. A quick review of the humor landscape shows that there are very few conservative political satirists, and using personal interviews with political humorists this book explains why. The book explores the history of satire, the comedy profession, and the nature of satire itself to examine why there is an ideological imbalance in political humor and it explores the consequences of this disparity. This book will appeal to Daily Show and Colbert fans, political junkies, and anyone interested in the intersection of politics and media.
| Author | : Jonathan Gray |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2009-06-02 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 113525348X |
Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world’s most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a box, it is deeply embedded in everyday life, in how we think, what we think and care about, and who we think and care about it with. But is television entertainment art? Why do so many love it and so many hate or fear it? Does it offer a window to the world, or images of a fake world? How is it political and how does it address us as citizens? What powers does it hold, and what powers do we have over it? Or, for that matter, what is television these days, in an era of rapidly developing technologies, media platforms, and globalization? Written especially for students, Television Entertainment addresses these and other key questions that we regularly ask, or should ask. Jonathan Gray offers a lively and dynamic, thematically based overview with examples from recent and current television, including Lost, reality television, The Sopranos, The Simpsons, political satire, Grey’s Anatomy, The West Wing, soaps, and 24.
| Author | : Jody C Baumgartner |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2020-07-07 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1498565093 |
In the past decade various studies have examined how political humor may influence various political attitudes and voting behavior; whether it affects learning, cognition and media literacy, how it might shape political participation; how people process different forms of political humor; and more. This book is devoted to anticipating and addressing where the field of political humor and its effects will move in the next generation of scholarship, exploring the continued evolution of the study of political humor as well as the normative implications of these developments. It includes research accounting for important changes and developments "on the ground" in the political humor landscape. These include the fact that the cadre of late-night television hosts have completely changed in the past 3 years; there are now more late night television choices; and many hosts have become more overtly political in their presentations. Recommended for scholars of communication, media studies, and political science.
| Author | : Dannagal Goldthwaite Young |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Mass media |
| ISBN | : 0190913088 |
This text explores the aesthetics, underlying logics, and histories of two seemingly distinct genres - liberal political satire and conservative opinion talk - making the case that they should be thought of as the logical extensions of the psychology of the left and right, respectively.
| Author | : Markus Prior |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2007-04-02 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0521858720 |
This 2007 book studies the impact of the media on politics in the United States during the last half-century.
