Ethan Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4929097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ethan Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ethan |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-3651-3222 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Comedy Book
Comedy Book effectively synthesizes trends and arguments in contemporary American comedy, particularly stand-up and its mediated forms, while offering tools we can use to understand and evaluate its cultural value. Fox writes that his goal is to show why comedy ought to be taken seriously as an art form and to model how that can be done. This book is for a popular audience. Indeed, humor studies scholars do not need to be convinced that comedy sh…
The State of Satire, the Satire of State
Good Demo, Bad Taste
How to Watch Television
Live From New York, It's the Fake News! Saturday Night Live and the (Non)Politics of Parody
Though Saturday Night Live's “Weekend Update” has become one of the most iconic of fake news programs, it is remarkably unfocused on either satiric critique or parody of particular news conventions. Instead, the segment has been shaped by a series of hosts who made a name for themselves by developing distinctive comic personalities. In contrast to more politically invested contemporary programs, the genre of fake news on Saturday Night Live has b…
Satire TV
This work examines what happens when comedy becomes political, and politics become funny. A series of original essays focus on a range of programmes, from 'The Daily Show' to 'South Park
The Parodic Sensibility and the Sophisticated Gaze
The dramatic success of Playboy magazine in the 1950s paralleled the meteoric rise of television as both an industry and cultural form, but the magazine's relationship with the new electronic medium was an uneasy one. Television's status as a domestic, even feminine, medium posed particular challenges, even more so than the “masscult” critique. Rather than recommending specific programs for consumption as it did with books, albums, and movies, th…
Satire TV
This work examines what happens when comedy becomes political, and politics become funny. A series of original essays focus on a range of programmes, from 'The Daily Show' to 'South Park
Live From New York, It's the Fake News! Saturday Night Live and the (Non)Politics of Parody
Though Saturday Night Live's “Weekend Update” has become one of the most iconic of fake news programs, it is remarkably unfocused on either satiric critique or parody of particular news conventions. Instead, the segment has been shaped by a series of hosts who made a name for themselves by developing distinctive comic personalities. In contrast to more politically invested contemporary programs, the genre of fake news on Saturday Night Live has b…
The Parodic Sensibility and the Sophisticated Gaze
The dramatic success of Playboy magazine in the 1950s paralleled the meteoric rise of television as both an industry and cultural form, but the magazine's relationship with the new electronic medium was an uneasy one. Television's status as a domestic, even feminine, medium posed particular challenges, even more so than the “masscult” critique. Rather than recommending specific programs for consumption as it did with books, albums, and movies, th…
The Parodic Sensibility and the Sophisticated Gaze
The dramatic success of Playboy magazine in the 1950s paralleled the meteoric rise of television as both an industry and cultural form, but the magazine's relationship with the new electronic medium was an uneasy one. Television's status as a domestic, even feminine, medium posed particular challenges, even more so than the “masscult” critique. Rather than recommending specific programs for consumption as it did with books, albums, and movies, th…
Satire TV
This work examines what happens when comedy becomes political, and politics become funny. A series of original essays focus on a range of programmes, from 'The Daily Show' to 'South Park
Live From New York, It's the Fake News! Saturday Night Live and the (Non)Politics of Parody
Though Saturday Night Live's “Weekend Update” has become one of the most iconic of fake news programs, it is remarkably unfocused on either satiric critique or parody of particular news conventions. Instead, the segment has been shaped by a series of hosts who made a name for themselves by developing distinctive comic personalities. In contrast to more politically invested contemporary programs, the genre of fake news on Saturday Night Live has b…
How to Watch Television
The State of Satire, the Satire of State
Good Demo, Bad Taste
Comedy Book
Comedy Book effectively synthesizes trends and arguments in contemporary American comedy, particularly stand-up and its mediated forms, while offering tools we can use to understand and evaluate its cultural value. Fox writes that his goal is to show why comedy ought to be taken seriously as an art form and to model how that can be done. This book is for a popular audience. Indeed, humor studies scholars do not need to be convinced that comedy sh…
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