It's Funny Because It's True? The Simpsons, Satire, and the Significance of Religious Humor in Popular Culture

A Mother's Value Lies in Her Sexuality:The Simpsons,Family Guy, andSouth Parkand the Preservation of Traditional Sex Roles

“…Methodologically, the examples we selected were chosen after undergoing what Stuart Hall describes as “a long preliminary soak, a submission by the analyst to the mass of his [sic] material” (:15). David Feltmate has been watching these three programs for over a decade and has published on their content regarding other aspects of social life (see, e.g., Feltmate ). Kimberly P. Brackett, meanwhile, has been researching motherhood and has spent over a decade absorbing and analyzing discourses from the “Mommy Wars.” When we combined our insights from each soak, a pattern emerged across the programs which revealed the latent assumption that motherhood and sexuality are related and that the children are the beneficiaries or victims of their mother's sexuality.…”

El periodismo informativo y la televisión infantil en las primeras temporadas de la serie de ficción televisiva Los Simpson

“…Diferentes autores se han ocupado de analizar en la serie cuestiones de género (Analuisa, 2015;Reig y Mancinas, 2010;Chacón y Sánchez-Ruiz, 2009, Henry, 2007Feltmate y Brackett, 2014), las claves de su éxito (Marta-Lazo y Tovar, 2011; Gray, 2006), las técnicas utilizadas para traducir su humor (Lorenzo;Pereira y Xaobanova, 2003), su relación con las ciencias económicas (Chu, 2014; Lucassen y Thomas, 2010) y otros aspectos relacionados con la psicología y la espiritualidad (Feltmate, 2013;Eaton y Uskul, 2004;Pinsky, 2001), aunque las líneas de todos ellos difieren de los objetivos marcados en el presente estudio.…”

The Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 2013

“…The takeaway is that we need "specialized theories" for better engagement with religious satire. 106 In the American Humor Studies Association, one group of accomplished scholars has been drawing our attention back to a magazine of their youth, the years at Mad when Harvey Kurtzman and William Gaines were at the helm and Bill Elder was maestro of the illustrations. (A large sample of their work appears in the jumbo fall 2014 special issue of StAH [n.s.…”