Research Catalog

Title

The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy : More Moments of Zen, More Indecision Theory / edited by Jason Holt.

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Holt, Jason, 1971-

Description

ix, 361 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Blackwell philosophy and popculture series

Uniform Title

Blackwell philosophy and popculture series

Subject

Daily show (Television program)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Segment 1. Headlines: Faux news is good news. Rallying against the conflictinator: Jon Stewart, Neil Postman, and entertainment bias / Gerald J. Erion ; The fake, the false, and the fictional: The daily show as news source / Michael Gettings ; The daily show: an ethos for the fifth estate / Rachael Sotos ; Seriously funny: mockery as a political weapon / Greg Littmann ; Keeping it (hyper) real: anchoring in the age of fake news / Kellie Bean -- Segment 2. Live report: Jon Stewart (not Mill) as philosopher, sort of. Jon Stewart: The new and Improved public intellectual / Terrance MacMullan ; Stewart and Socrates: speaking truth to power / Judith Barad ; Jon the Cynic: dog philosophy / Alejandro Br̀cenas ; "Jews! Camera 3": how Jon Stewart echoes Martin Buber / Joseph A. Edelheit -- Segment 3. Field report: politics and critical thinking. More bullshit: political spin and the PR-ization of media / Kimberly Blessing and Joseph Marren ; The senior black correspondent: aaying what needs to be said / John Scott Gray ; The daily show's exposé of political rhetoric / Liam P. Dempsey ; The daily show way: critical thinking, civic discourse, and postmodern consciousness / Roben Torosyan -- Segment 4. Interview: religion and culture. GOP almighty: when God tells me (and my opponents) to run for president / Roberto Sirvent and Neil Baker ; Profaning the sacred: the challenge of religious diversity in "This week in God" / Matthew S. LoPresti ; Jon Stewart and the fictional war on Christmas / David Kyle Johnson ; Evolution, schmevolution: Jon Stewart and the culture wars / Massimo Pigliucci -- Segment 5. Your moment of zen: beyond The daily show. America (the book): textbook parody and democratic theory / Steve Vanderheiden ; A tea party for Me the people: the living revolution meets the originalists / Rachael Sotos ; Neologization à la Stewart and Colbert / Jason Holt ; Irrationality and "gut" reasoning: two kinds of truthiness / Amber L. Griffioen ; Thank God it's Stephen Colbert! the rally to restore irony on The Colbert report / Kevin S. Decker.

ISBN

• 9781118397688 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1118397681 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781118617380 (wol)
• 111861738X (wol)
• 9781118397695 (emobi) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781118397701 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781118617410 (epdf) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013006643

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library