Are we there yet?: Searching for Springfield and the Simpsons' rhetoric of omnitopia

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 207-222

  Wood, Andrew ^a,b   Todd, Anne Marie ^b  

^a Department of Communication Studies ^*  (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Locale; Modernity; Omnitopia; Popular Culture; Simpsons; Urbanity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744969835     PISSN: 15295036     EISSN: 14795809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07393180500200878     Document Type: Review

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