on+media+parody

-- Attached is an article (in the journal that I used to edit) on how the Steve Colbert, etc phenomena compares to the cynical culture in late-socialist Russia. Here a fun overview: http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/322

-- Laughing with the Yes Men

-- Ad Busters does a lot of interesting media parody work, and has a magazine: http://www.adbusters.org/

-- The Yes Men is a really famous (and really funny) media parody group. The library owns these films about their work, which includes some discussion of why they do it. And there's interviews with them around online (like here: http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/mike-bonanno-of-the-yes-men/)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1352852/ (also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men_Fix_the_World) Folsom DVD(2nd Flr) Call # PN1997.2 .Y4764 2010 Title The Yes Men fix the world

Folsom DVD(2nd Flr) Call # PN1997.2 .Y476 2005 Title The Yes Men