The Simpsons Did It!: Postmodernity in Yellow

On December 17th 2014, the US TV-series "The Simpsons" celebrated its 25th birthday ? a remarkable anniversary. With an airtime of 25 years and more than 550 published episodes, "The Simpsons" are part of everyday media-reality of more than just one generation of television viewers. Their immense popularity as well as the critic?s esteem highlight The Simpsons? importance as pop-cultural phenomenon, and demand far-ranging scholarly attention. This book uses "The Simpsons" as an analytical media-matrix to discuss aspects of postmodernity. It features articles by Angela Meyer (?Lisa Simpson as the Voice of Double-Coded Critiques of Contemporary Society?), Benjamin Franz (?Vests, Monorails, ?Springs? and Kwik-E-Marts: Music as Political Discourse in The Simpsons?), John W. Heeren and Salvador Jimenez Murguia (?Faith And Laughter: A Postmodern View of Religion in The Simpsons?), Eric Pellerin (?The Simpsons and Television Self Reflexivity as Critique?), Martin Gloger (?No Homer-Society ? Some Explorations on Springfield Capitalism?), Tom Zlabinger (?Listening to Yellow: Music and Musicians as Heard and Seen in The Simpsons?), Joseph H. Herrera (?Hmm? Abortions for Some, Miniature American Flags for Others?: The Simpsons, Cultural Memory & the Unpaid Labor behind ?Oogle Goggles??) and Brett Jordan Schmoll (?Slashing The Simpsons: Apu, Lisa, and the Fictionalization of Academic Discourse?)