List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Taking South Park Seriously Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Part One The Pleasures of South Park 1. "Bigger Longer & Uncut": South Park and the Carnivalesque Alison Halsall 2. The Pleasures of South Park (An Experiment in Media Erotics) Brian L. Ott 3. Orphic Persuasions and Siren Seductions: Vocal Music in South Park Jason Boyd and Marc R. Plamondon 4. "Simpsons Did It": South Park as Differential Signifier Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Part Two Identity Politics 5. Freud Goes to South Park: Teaching against Postmodern Prejudices and Equal Opportunity Hatred Robert Samuels 6. Cynicism and Other Postideological Half Measures in South Park Stephen Groening 7. Shopping at J-Mart with the Williams: Race, Ethnicity, and Belonging in South Park Lindsay Coleman Part Three South Park Conservatives? 8. "I Hate Hippies": South Park and the Politics of Generation X Matt Becker 9. South Park Heretics: Confronting Orthodoxy through Theater of the Absurd Randall Fallows 10. Prophetic Profanity: South Park on Religion or Thinking Theologically with Eric Cartman Michael W. DeLashmutt and Brannon Hancock Part Four Specific Critiques 11. "You Know, I Learned Something Today ...": Cultural Pedagogy and the Limits of Formal Education in South Park James Rennie 12. "Omigod, It's Russell Crowe!": South Park's Assault on Celebrity Damion Sturm List of Episodes Cited South Park Complete Episode Guide, Seasons 1-11 List of Contributors Index
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is Associate Professor of English at Central Michigan University and the author of several books, including The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination.
"This collection is sure to get South Park fans thinking a little deeper. The articles are both well written and readable. You know, I think I learned something today!" - Robert Arp, editor of South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today "This book is a serious and thoughtful effort at a scholarly analysis of South Park, and it makes an important contribution in beginning a scholarly dialogue on this influential and often controversial show." - John Alberti, author of Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture
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