Popular Culture and the Future of Politics Cultural Studies and the Tao of South Park
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Ted Gournelos is assistant professor of critical media and cultural studies at Rollins College.Gournelos ably mobilizes South Park's challenge to traditional broadcasting and marketing strategies, to mount a convincing and insightful case about oppositional culture in the contemporary era. His Taoist model of allusive, responsive and disruptive processes reveals South Park and similar texts as models which both critique a range of political discourses and the contradictory media practices which mount them. Gournelos' scholarship is comprehensive, offering an engaging and persuasive account of post 9/11 ideological flux and moral ambiguity
- Paul Wells, Loughborough University,
Amidst South Park's general irreverence and grotesquerie lies one of American media's more interesting sites for oppositional politics. With care and significant skill, Gournelos examines the show and other satirical voices in contemporary culture, explaining exactly how and why the glorious horror of Eric Cartman and friends matter.
- Jonathan Gray, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
This series critically examines television, emphasizing in-depth monographic studies on a particular television series. By looking at television through a critical lens, the books in this series will bring insight into the cultural significance of television, and also explore how the lessons apply to larger critical and social issues. The texts in the series will appeal to communication, media, and cultural theory scholars.
Series Editor: Mark Andrejevic
Advisory Board: Robin Andersen, Lynn Schofield Clark, James Hay, and Fredrick Turner