Models of (Im)Perfection: Parodic Refunctioning in Spike TV's The Joe Schmo Show and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Tale of Sir Thopas

Author / Editor
Bell, Kimberly K.

Title
Models of (Im)Perfection: Parodic Refunctioning in Spike TV's The Joe Schmo Show and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Tale of Sir Thopas

Published
Eileen A. Joy, Myra J. Seaman, Kimberly K. Bell, and Mary K. Ramsey, eds. Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 23-47.

Description
Bell argues that "The Joe Schmo Show" and Th "use metafictional parody to 'refunction' generic forms and critique stereotypes of masculinity."

Alternative Title
Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Sir Thopas