TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This chapter examines four episodes of The Simpsons, paying particular interest to one, The Days of Wine and D’oh’ses to connect the notion of pastiche with a symbolic interactionist view of media representation. We use The Simpsons and episodes pertinent to alcoholism and alcoholic imbibing to show that pastiche, which does not deny the resolute qualities of a serious social issue, nevertheless provides ironic and fantastic imagery to merge the serious and even tragic with the comedic. We use the four episodes to depict alcoholism as a disease but also as focal point for humor, making the contrast between The Days of Wine and D’oh’ses and its classic alcoholism-film counterpart, The Days of Wine and Roses, central to the tragic-comedic connection. We further draw upon Denzin’s notions of the comedic drunk and the alcoholism alibi to discuss how pastiche both inspires attention to alcoholism as a serious medical disease and disease of the self and to alcoholism as pivotal to comedic character development and the emergence of pragmatic and creative selves.
VL  - 46
SN  - 978-1-78635-036-7, 978-1-78635-035-0/0163-2396
DO  - 10.1108/S0163-239620160000046030
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-239620160000046030
AU  - Katovich Michael A.
AU  - Rosenthal Vaughan Sarah
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/01/01
TI  - Alcoholism and The Simpsons: Connecting Symbolic Interactionism and Pastiche
T2  - The Astructural Bias Charge: Myth or Reality?
T3  - Studies in Symbolic Interaction
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 189
EP  - 214
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -