Good days and Mad : a hysterical tour behind the scenes at Mad magazine / Dick DeBartolo. by DeBartolo, Dick

Seeing Mad : essays on Mad magazine's humor and legacy / edited by Judith Yaross Lee and John Bird.

Table of Contents: “…Theories -- 'Comedy before Country': Engaged Levity and Absurdist Critique in Mad Magazine / Jeff St. Onge -- Genre Studies and Mad Magazine: Changing and Challenging Genres, 1953-1966 / Kathleen Mollick -- Part V. …”
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The Daniel Clowes reader : a critical edition of Ghost world and other stories, with essays, interviews and annotations / edited by Ken Parille. by Clowes, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Urban romanticism, Mad Magazine, and the aesthetics of Ugly (1986-1998) /…”

The Simpsons : a cultural history / Moritz Fink. by Fink, Moritz

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: yellow planet -- From counter culture to couch culture -- "So, we meet again, MAD magazine": The Simpsons' comics ancestors -- The birth of The Simpsons -- The Simpsons' road to success -- Springfield on the map -- At home at 742 Evergreen Terrace -- A town called Springfield -- Pop culture institution -- Simpsonized -- The renaissance of animation -- Merchandising The Simpsons -- The Simpsons in remix culture -- Conclusion: the future of The Simpsons.…”
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The fugitive : a complete episode guide, 1963-1967 / by John Cooper. by Cooper, John, 1944 March 14-

Parody and taste in postwar American television culture / by Ethan Thompson. by Thompson, Ethan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the parodic impulse in the (Not-So) fabulous Fifties -- The new, sick sense: the mediation of America's health and humor at mid-century -- What, me subversive? MAD Magazine and the textual strategies and cultural politics of parody -- The parodic sensibility and the sophisticated gaze: masculinity and taste in Playboy's penthouse -- Ernie Kovacs and the logics of television parody and electronic trickery -- Black tie, straightjacket: Oscar Levant's sick life on TV -- Conclusion: television for people who hate television?…”
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Kerouac and friends : a beat generation album / [compiled by] Fred W. McDarrah.

Table of Contents: “…. - Beatnik magazine parody / Mad magazine.…”

Language and public policy / Hugh Rank, editor. by Rank, Hugh

Table of Contents: “…Bias in the mass media: a student-consumer approach to analyzing news products / Robert Cirino -- Mad magazine--witness for the people / Richard Reeves -- Plight of the American language / Jean Stafford -- How we debase the English language / Melvin Maddocks -- Semantics, attitudes, and the training of teachers / Howard F. …”

Loaded words / Marjorie Garber. by Garber, Marjorie B.

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How to be a writer. CreativeLive.

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From Krakow to Krypton : Jews and comic books / Arie Kaplan. by Kaplan, Arie

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The quest for Jewish belief and identity in the graphic novel / Stephen E. Tabachnick. by Tabachnick, Stephen Ely

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