Teleparody: Predicting/Preventing the TV Discourse of Tomorrow

Edited by Angela Hague and David Lavery | London: Wallflower Press, 2002

Table of Contents

Introduction: David Lavery, Prehistory | Angela Hague, History | Review of Boys Will Be Boys: Critical Approaches to Simon and Simon

The SitCom: Rhonda V. Wilcox, Review of Visual Pleasure and Nasal Elevation: A Television Teleology by Taryn P. Cursive-Waters | Bill Friend, Review of From Gidget to the End of History: Sally Field and the American Century by James Detourne | Dennis Hall, Review of Equinicity: Contending Discourses in Mister Ed by Jerome Stern | Robert Holtzclaw, Review of Cultural Displacement and the Hegemony of Wealth in The Beverly Hillbillies by Justin Addison


Drama: Clifford Mapes, Review of “This is the City-State: The Idea of the Guardian in the TV LAPD by Xerxes Havelock | David Lavery, Review of Californication and Cultural Imperialism: Baywatch and the Creation of World Culture edited by Andrew Anglophone


Children’s TV: On Mister Rogers--Kevin Kehrwald, Review of Don’t You Be My Neighbor: Dystopian Visions in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood by Victoria Neamo || Jeremy Brown, Won’t You be My Rhizome?: A Review The Piano and the Trolley: The Rhizomatic Mister Rogers by Shelia Rosenberg | Krystal Whitecastle, “Tinky Winky’s got a brand new bag”: The Year's Work in Teletubbies Studies


Cartoons: Michael Dunne, Review of Beavis, Butt-head, and Bakhtin by I. B. Todorov | Stephen Tompkins, Review of They Deconstructed South Park, You Bastards! edited by Lavender Levine


Science Fiction: Paul Malone, Review of Zipping the Great Minds: Max Headroom’s BigTime Philosophy edited by Martyn Dumfries 


Soap Opera: Mark J. Charney, Review of The Semiotics of Days of Our Lives: The Possession of Marlena Evans as a Pedagogical Means of Interpretation by Kristen Susan Wortham-Quinn | Brenda R. Weber, Review of Daytime Dialogism: Erica’s Eroica in the Pine Valley Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton “Smith,” and Acronym for Alterity: AMC and the Subaltern by D. Raymond Gardner | Richard Henry, The Case of “Donna Quixotic: The Mirror of Uldolpho” (Episode 18)

Reality TV and Sports: Eugene Halton, No Man is an Island: It Takes a Village Idiot: A Review of On Temptation Island: The View from the Hot Tub by Art Dimsdale | Charles A. Goldthwaite, Jr., Review of Foreign Objects in the Ring: Professional Wrestling and the Politics of Engagement by Lugnut Jones | Allison Graham, Review of Subverting Desires: Spectacles of the Simpson Year edited by André Dross


Greg A. Waller, Review of Tropes of Turbulence by R. Pupkin-Bickle and Mapping Meteorology, Signifying Storms, Deploying Doppler by Georgina Wynette and Tom E. Jones


Gender: Will Brooker, Review of Straight Reading, Resistance, Reappropriation, and Heterosexuality by Richard Bradshaw | Ken Gillam and Shannon Wooden, Review of A Creature Feminine: The Politics of T & A in Primetime Television 1970-2000 edited by Patricia Frangois | Jim Riser, Review of Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans / Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock: Homoeroticism as Subtext in the Post-Atomic Age by Herman Heman


Theory: Matthew Hills , The Perils of Post-Theory TV: Substituting Fandom for Academia, a Review-Essay of TV Guides: Towards Embedded Theory by Iain John Austen and Autarchic Tele-visions by Sarah-Jane Smythe | Ben Picken-Schnozzel, Postnasal Drip: Post-rational Authority and Post-tenure Guilt | Marc Dolan, The Neverending Series: The Indiana Jones Chronicles and The Past/Present/Future of Mass Media Narrative


Afterword by Robert J. Thompson


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