Very good point about some texts being more or less stable, and SP clearly is one-- after all, it's been claimed as a conservative show, which to me seems odd, but shows how open it is to such a claim. As for didacticism, when I use that word I tend ...
While I'm sure the elements you're discussing here are present in the anti-Britney-ism, at the same time, I find her a slippery example of these processes in the abstract, since surely a source of the anti-Britney-ism also lies in some people� ...
I'm fascinated by how a lot of ads like this try to sell such conspicuous and over the top signs of privilege and control: being able to tell women to shake their "junks" and so forth. Here, the fantasy of control and power is so redundant, ...
Amber, I'd highly recommend checking out Mark Thomas too, of England. He managed a really neat medium between a Moore/Yes Men/Billy-ish playfulness, comedy, and pranksterism, and a serious political critique that let a few more people take him seriou ...
If 3-camera shows are struggling, I wouldn't blame/thank reality TV, YouTube, DVDs, iPods, etc.-- rather, I think a whole host of parodies have really made it a hard form to pull off. The Simpsons made fast work of the family sitcom; Scrubs has playe ...
The intermediary is nearly always required in any story of grief, though, as evidenced for instance by Fordham's (and I'd suspect many other campus papers') Observer's framing of the Virginia Tech rampage in terms of Fordham students t ...
Not sure how much my comment relates to this specific clip, but I wonder about national (sexual) identity here, too. Many aspects of Canadianness (in its stereotypical polite version that is, not the drunk hockey fan or lumberjack mind you) are somewhat e ...
this vid also proves definitely for me why copyright "violation" can be good for business, as it totally made my household one of Regina Spektor fans, and Amazon is reaping the rewards ...
Like Vicki, I'm not sure where Star Search comes into this. But a similarly brilliant mashup, of one of Bush's State of the Union by Brit comic mastermind Chris Morris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FSpQLsUmVQ ...
It's refreshing at the same time that political parody and satire doesn't have to be political all the time, no? It would be tiring if Stewart, Colbert, etc. were wholly political. But, for instance, much of Stewart's schtick is just funny ...
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