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Saturday Night Live and American TV
For over 35 years, \"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 a mass of comedians including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Chris Farley, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Adam Sandler, among others. Week after week, SNL has produced unforgettable sketches and provocative political satire, adapting to changing times while staying true to its original vision of performing timely topical humor. With essays that address issues ranging from race and gender to authorship and comedic performance, \"Saturday Night Live\" and American TV follows the history of this 36-time Emmy-winning show and its place in the shifting social and media landscape of American television.
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The Carnival’s Edge
This article reexamines the satire of Charlie Hebdo through the lens of comedy theory and cultural studies. Drawing upon Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of “the carnivalesque” and Linda Hutcheon’s concept of “irony’s edge,” it considers the wide variety of potential meanings that are encoded within Hebdo’s highly controversial comedy and religious representations. Introducing the notion of the “ambigramic carnival,” I argue that competing notions of hegemony in French culture encourage radically different understandings of the ethical and political implications of Hebdo’s content. Ultimately, I contend that while Hebdo’s approach to satire is in no way responsible for the terroristic violence visited upon the magazine, the publication nonetheless crafted a style intended to evoke a range of responses, including profound anger. As an empirical companion to this theoretical approach, the article then turns to coverage of the Hebdo massacre in the Jewish press, arguing that in the United States the Forward used the Hebdo story to represent Jewish empowerment and disempowerment simultaneously.
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Green Arrow
\"Oliver Queen thought he had it all figured out. As the heroic archer Green Arrow, he'd finally found a sense of purpose, friends to aid him, even a place on the Justice League of America. But now, he's not even sure where he came from... or who he came from. As Green Arrow discovers that his stranding on a desert island was more than just an accident, there seem to be more sinister forces at work behind all these sudden revelations. The Queen family is embroiled in a war generations old. A war of clans. A war of outsiders. Acclaimed creative team Jeff Lemire (ANIMAL MAN) and Andrea Sorrentino (I, VAMPIRE) take Green Arrow on his most challenging adventure yet. Collects GREEN ARROW #17-34, GREEN ARROW FUTURES END #1, and GREEN ARROW SECRET ORIGINS\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Appropriating Irony
This article examines the rise of right-wing comedy in American media, considering how an academic, economic, and cultural emphasis on left-liberal ironic humor over the last decade has obscured the emergence of conservative forms of televisual satire. The article does so by closely analyzing the industrial and formal traits of Fox News' Watters' World (2017–) and Adult Swim's short-lived but controversial Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace (Cartoon Network, 2016). These programs mimic liberal televisual satire in form but use displaced abjection in order to further degrade already marginalized cultural groups. The right's use of comedic forms heretofore associated with liberalism, we argue, presents an imminent threat to contemporary political discourse.
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Green Arrow : war of the clans
\"Oliver Queen thought he had it all figured out. As the heroic archer Green Arrow, he'd finally found a sense of purpose, friends to aid him, even a place on the Justice League of America. But now he's not even sure where he came from... or whom he came from. As Green Arrow discovers that his stranding on a desert island was more than just an accident, there seem to be more sinister forces at work behind all these sudden revelations. The Queen family is embroiled in a war generations old. A war of clans. A war of outsiders.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Spider-Girl : the complete collection. vol.1
What if Peter Parker and Mary Jane had a daughter? The ever-amazing answer is, she'd be May \"Mayday\" Parker -A.K.A. Spider-Girl! Spinning out of the pages of WHAT IF? into her very own universe, the teenage Mayday inherits spider-powers and dons the red-and-blues of her retired father! Now follow her adventures from the very beginning, as Mayday learns about Spider-Man's legacy and wrestles with whether to follow in his footsteps! She'll face threats old and new - from the Venom symbiote and Kaine, to Crazy Eight and the Dragon King - and meet some of the incredible faces of the future Marvel Universe, like Darkdevil, Wild Thing, the Fantastic Five and the newest roster of the mighty Avengers! Discover a friendly neighborhood hero for a new generation!
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Hard questions: public goods and the political economy of the new Palestinian televisual public sphere
[...] my approach is to identify relevant models produced by economists and international relations scholars and apply to them data relevant to Ma'an and The Hard Question culled from personal observations and interviews. [...] I consider the possibilities for Ma'an on panregional satellite television, arguing that although this platform offers a possible path to sustainability, it also brings with it potential sacrifices in terms of attention to specifically national Palestinian concerns.
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