Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 
Taking South Park Seriously [PDF ebook] 

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Taking
South Park Seriously
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Part One The Pleasures of South Park
1. “Bigger Longer & Uncut”:
South Park and the Carnivalesque
Alison Halsall
2. The Pleasures of
South Park (An Experiment in Media Erotics)
Brian L. Ott
3. Orphic Persuasions and Siren Seductions: Vocal Music in
South Park
Jason Boyd and Marc R. Plamondon
4. “Simpsons Did It”:
South Park as Differential Signifier
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Part Two Identity Politics
5. Freud Goes to South Park: Teaching against Postmodern Prejudices and Equal Opportunity Hatred
Robert Samuels
6. Cynicism and Other Postideological Half Measures in
South Park
Stephen Groening
7. Shopping at J-Mart with the Williams: Race, Ethnicity, and Belonging in
South Park
Lindsay Coleman
Part Three South Park Conservatives?
8. “I Hate Hippies”:
South Park and the Politics of Generation X
Matt Becker
9.
South Park Heretics: Confronting Orthodoxy through Theater of the Absurd
Randall Fallows
10. Prophetic Profanity:
South Park on Religion or Thinking Theologically with Eric Cartman
Michael W. De Lashmutt and Brannon Hancock
Part Four Specific Critiques
11. “You Know, I Learned Something Today . . .”: Cultural Pedagogy and the Limits of Formal Education in
South Park
James Rennie
12. “Omigod, It’s Russell Crowe!”:
South Park’s Assault on Celebrity
Damion Sturm
List of Episodes Cited
South Park Complete Episode Guide, Seasons 1–11
List of Contributors
Index

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is Associate Professor of English at Central Michigan University and the author of several books, including
The Rocky Horror Picture Show and
Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination.