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Professor Takes on "South Park" in Forthcoming Essay Collection
Central Michigan University (CMU) ^
| November 30, 2005
| staff
Posted on 12/01/2005 10:15:54 AM PST by EveningStar
Central Michigan University English professor Jeffrey Weinstock is taking Kyle, Kenny, Stan and Cartman into a new realm: academia.
Not usually a topic of high-brow conversation, the "South Park" gang has caught the attention of Weinstock, who studies popular culture, along with other academic colleagues who have submitted 50 proposals for his forthcoming compilation, due out in 2008.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: academia; popularculture; southpark
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To: EveningStar
A class on South Park...
My kids are majoring in Engineering or they can forget about me paying for their college!
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posted on
12/01/2005 10:17:49 AM PST
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: .cnI redruM; 537cant be wrong; 68 grunt; A. Patriot; A_Conservative_Chinese; ...
To: EveningStar
The real
CMU would never have time for this.
SD
To: EveningStar; All
THis is what tax dollars SORRY ES I like South Park this is ridclous LOL!
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posted on
12/01/2005 10:21:22 AM PST
by
SevenofNine
("Not everybody in, it, for truth, justice, and the American way,"= Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
12/01/2005 10:23:13 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: cripplecreek
I've seen every episode, including the original 'spirit of christmas'. I've seen the south park movie and own the DVD.
In addition, I've seen amd pwm team america and orgazmo. The only one I haven't seen is "cannibal: the musical"
I think at this point I should have a PhD in south park studies.
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posted on
12/01/2005 10:25:55 AM PST
by
flashbunny
(To err is human. But to really screw something up, have the government try to fix it.)
To: cripplecreek
I should have a degree. I would like to do graduate work in Cartmenology. And yes, you would have to respect my authori-te!
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posted on
12/01/2005 10:26:32 AM PST
by
pikachu
(That which does not kill me just makes me grumpy!)
To: EveningStar
Cartman would kick Professor Weinstock's butt.
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posted on
12/01/2005 10:28:38 AM PST
by
Condor51
(Leftists are moral and intellectual parasites - Standing Wolf)
To: Incorrigible; SoothingDave; SevenofNine
It's not a class. It's a still-to-be-published book of essays. :)
To: pikachu
I hate hippies. May I be your research assistant?
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posted on
12/01/2005 10:43:18 AM PST
by
BJClinton
(The short answer is that I am 47 years old and I am not a blithering idiot. ~Buckhead)
To: flashbunny
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posted on
12/01/2005 10:46:14 AM PST
by
kaylar
To: flashbunny
I liked the way the show ended with a dead whale on the moon last night.
"it was funny before and it'll be funny again."
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posted on
12/01/2005 10:54:23 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: EveningStar
I hope that this will become the topic of a future episode.
Kenny will die of boredom.
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posted on
12/01/2005 10:55:52 AM PST
by
Nicholas Conradin
(If you are not disquieted by "One nation under God," try "One nation under Allah.")
To: Nicholas Conradin
Hmm... A South Park episode about South Park as a college class, studying the episode about the class, in class...
...and then the universe folds in on itself.
Too dangerous.
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posted on
12/01/2005 11:03:33 AM PST
by
Ramius
(Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
To: flashbunny
I think at this point I should have a PhD in south park studies. I've watched the Babs Streisand eps. Does that qualify me for a BS degree? ;-)
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posted on
12/01/2005 11:11:37 AM PST
by
peyton randolph
(Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
To: flashbunny
By all means, see "Cannibal."
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posted on
12/01/2005 11:20:06 AM PST
by
kallisti
To: EveningStar
It's all still a bunch of tree-hugging hippie crap!
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posted on
12/01/2005 11:20:18 AM PST
by
LeftiesBinWhinin
(Remember Bill Clinton and never vote for a Democrat ever again.)
To: EveningStar
Some things resist overintellectualization, thank God, and
South Park is one of them. You can, of course, make an attempt to deconstruct the thing after the usual fashion -
In the works of Trey Parker, a predominant concept is the concept of subsemantic language. Thus, Sartres model of social realism states that narrativity has objective value, but only if neocultural rationalism is valid.
However, Lacan uses the term social realism to denote not theory, as Baudrillard would have it, but pretheory. Lacans essay on neocultural rationalism implies that class, surprisingly, has significance.
...and so it goes. And you just know that stuff is going to turn up on Terence And Philip Do PostModernism and that the punchline will be another juicy fart.
To: flashbunny
Track "Cannibal" down. It's moderately amusing. (And at the very least, you'll figure out where music on the "Braniff" production logo comes from.) Plus the commentary for the movie involves the cast drinking scotch... and finishing 2 bottles of it before the film ends.
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posted on
12/01/2005 11:28:56 AM PST
by
Starter
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