Quiet Little Mountain Town

This page contains a small selection of books and articles about South Park. For now, the collection is limited to academic publications, but I may eventually add a section for articles from entertainment magazines and whatnot.

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Deconstructing South Park: Critical Examinations of Animated Transgression
Brian Cogan (ed.), 2011

Flying To A Quiet Mountain Town Upon A Dung Beetle: Aristophanic Elements in South Park
Dirk Gibb, 2013

South Park FAQ: All That's Left to Know About The Who, What, Where, When and #%$ of America's Favorite Mountain Town
Dave Thompson, 2014

Taking South Park Seriously
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (ed.), 2008

The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy: Respect My Philosophah!
Robert Arp, Kevin S. Decker, William Irwin (eds.), 2013

Beyond a Cutout World: Ethnic Humor and Discursive Integration in South Park
Sienkiewicz, M., & Marx, N. (2009). Journal of Film and Video, 61(2), 5–18

Dator’s 2nd Law of South Park: Imagining (poorly animated) Futures of Religion, Technology, & Culture
Sweeney, J. (2013). Journal of Futures Studies, 17(3), 147-150

No Longer "As Crappy as Possible"?: Cult Sensibilities and the High-Definition Revisioning and "Unbleeping" of Early Seasons of South Park
McGowan, D. (2021). New Review of Film and Television Studies, 19(4), 560-586, DOI: 10.1080/17400309.2021.2006569

“Oh My God, they Digitized Kenny!” Travels in the South Park Cybercommunity V4.01
Ott, B. (2003). In: Stabile, C. Prime Time Animation: Television Animation and American Culture. Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781315015545

Pseudo-Satire and Evasion of Ideological Meaning in South Park
Frim, D. (2014). Studies in Popular Culture, 36(2), 149-171

The (re)shaping of South Park's humor through literary references
Pajović, S. (2014). Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Prištini, 44(2), 427-449. DOI: 10.5937/ZRFFP44-6372

The influence of censorship on the translation of the animated TV-series South Park
Kuch, V (2018).

Won't somebody please think of the children? Or, South Park fanfic and the political realm
Fathallah, J. (2015). Journal of Youth Studies, 18(10), 1309-1325. DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2015.1039972