The Simpsons

The Simpsons is the product of cultural creation , and it does not deny its being creating for the purposes of commerce and profits but it also finds enough strength to use this commerce and profits as the source of satire and parody , thus emphasizing the disappearing line between high and low cultural ideals

Postmodern movements are characterized by the growing controversy between high and low culture . The scenes where classical music is mixed with Star Wars themes underline the paradox between our musical perceptions and the classical music reality . It is difficult

to deny that in our own era , this distinction between the high and low has collapsed under the weight of the democracy of the visual and the aural as contemporary aesthetic production has come to rely more heavily upon media other than print and upon generic forms besides the poem and the novel (Alberti 30 . While Alberti confirms the lack of distinction between high and low cultural norms , we gradually come to realize the impact which low mass culture produces on our minds . The Simpsons exemplifies the way we use sitcom characters and scenes to shape our visions of reality . We deconstruct the meaning of classics and no longer rely on the classical sources of knowledge . The mere fact that postmodern society chooses The Simpsons as the source of cultural truth confirms the narrowing gap between high art and mass culture , which also turns The Simpsons into a convenient source of political and gender ideologies

The Simpsons is one of the few sitcoms that dare to use politics as the instrument of postmodern satire . Booker writes that politics has sometimes addressed The Simpsons as well , as when both the first lady and President George Bush (the first one ) publicly took on the program complaining that something as stupid...