Dialogic absurdity: TV news parody as a critique of genre

Television and New Media

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 294-308

  Druick, Zoë ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genre; Intertextuality; Mikhail Bakhtin; News parody; The Colbert Report; The Daily Show

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449837179     PISSN: 15274764     EISSN: 15528316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527476409332057     Document Type: Article

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