The Gospel according to The Simpsons, Bigger and Possibly Even Better! Edition: With a New Afterword Exploring South Park, Family Guy, & Other Animated TV ShowsWestminster John Knox Press, 24/05/2007 - 317 páginas Is there anything holy in Springfield, the home to irascible Bart Simpson and his naive dad Homer, their enthusiastic evangelical neighbor Ned Flanders, the sourpuss minister Rev. Lovejoy, and the dozens of other unique characters who inhabit the phenomenally popular TV show? In this revision of the 2001 bestseller, author Mark Pinsky says yes! In this entertaining and enlightening book, Pinsky shows how The Simpsons engages issues of religion and morality in a thoughtful, provocative, and genuinely respectful way. With three new chapters and updates to reflect the 2001-2006 seasons, Pinsky has given a thorough facelift to the book that Publishers Weekly called "thoughtful and genuinely entertaining." The new material includes chapters on Buddhism and gay marriage and an extensive afterword that explores how religion is treated on the animated shows that have followed in the footsteps of The Simpsons: South Park, Family Guy, Futurama, American Dad, and King of the Hill. |
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... humor, which is quite an achievement.” —The Most Reverend Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury “I've never been much of a TV watcher. It's against my religion, as they used to say. But now Mark Pinsky's The Gospel according to The ...
... Humor Is in Indirect Proportion to One's True Belief.” 199 14. Conclusion: Cloaking the Sacred with the Profane? 216 Afterword: Futurama, King of the Hill, Family Guy, American Dad, and, Yes, South Park 227 Notes 298 302 Bibliography ...
... said in a newspaper interview that the series “doesn't compare just with other television programs, but with the best of American humor. Will Rogers, Mark Twain and The Simpsons can happily occupy the same Introduction 3.
... humor.”4 The Simpsonshas exerted an ongoing influence on American culture, high and low. “D'oh!” Homer's expression of consternation, has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Bad boy Bart became a giant, sixty-foot balloon in ...
... Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer,” Reinhold Niebuhr observed.8 Or as Conrad Hyers wrote in The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith, “If humor without faith is in danger of dissolving into cynicism ...
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