Season 49 kicks off with Pete Davidson’s hosting debut. We talk about parody in I’m Just Pete, commodity feminism in Glamgina, and misinterpretations of Blackness in The Original Princes of Comedy: A film by Please Don’t Destroy. Readings include Paul Beatty, Rosalind Gill, and bell hooks.
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Readings
Beatty, P. (2008). Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hokum/RFuA323WsLIC
Gill, R. (2011). Supersexualize me. Gender, race, and class in media: A critical reader, 278-84. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rosalind-Gill/publication/228639884_Supersexualize_me_Advertising_and_the_midriffs/links/541482060cf2788c4b35a7b4/Supersexualize-me-Advertising-and-the-midriffs.pdf
hooks, b. (1992). “Eating the other: Desire and resistance.” In Black Looks: Race and Representation, pp. 21–39. Boston: South End Press. https://sites.evergreen.edu/comalt/wp-content/uploads/sites/253/2016/11/eating-the-other.pdf
Kiremidjian, G. D. (1969). The aesthetics of parody. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 28(2), 231-242. https://www.jstor.org/stable/428572
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