The Simpson family has been a frequent visitor to millions of
households around the globe for two decades and the TV show
centering on the yellow family is arguably the most successful TV
series of all time. But THE SIMPSONS is not only economically
successful, it is also intelligent. Recent publications have
investigated the show's philosophical and psychological
implications and have thereby proven that the show is more than an
'ordinary' animated cartoon. The show has perfected the
postmodernist aesthetic, an aesthetic that is characterized by
meta-referentiality and intertextuality. The incessant references
to TV shows and movies past and present may lead some academics to
claim that THE SIMPSONS is the kind of fiction that only springs
from and leads to fiction, but John Barth already noted some twenty
years ago that "all fiction about fiction is in fact fiction about
life." Following this line of thought, THE SIMPSONS has to say a
lot about the society that makes the show successful. The book at
hand discusses the TV show THE SIMPSONS from two related
perspectives: its relation to postmodernism and its relation to the
postmodern American society.
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