SNL101

Timothée Chalamet’s second time hosting SNL was a mix of classic and new characters. We discuss how audiences respond to impersonations with respect James Austin Johnson’s amazing turn as Donald Trump in the Republican Debate Cold Open, flipping the gaze and the pleasure experienced by straight when women when watching gay men in Troye Sivan Sleep Demon, bullshit jobs and identity threat in Co-Worker Who’s Extremely Busy Doing Seemingly Nothing, and Museum of Hip Hop Panel. Readings include work from Charisse L’Pree on the potential, promise, and practice of streaming, Laura Marks on straight women and gay porn, and Susan Sontag on the proliferation of interpretations. 

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Readings

Graeber, D. (August, 2013). On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs: A work rant. Strike Magazine, 3, 1-5. https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

L’Pree, C. (2023). Streaming Won’t Save Us: UGC, Digital Workers, and the Racial Wealth Gap. Presented at Academy of Management Conference; Boston, MA. https://charisselpree.me/aom-2023/ 

Marks, L. U. (1996). Straight women, gay porn, and the scene of erotic looking. Jump Cut, 127-136. https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC40folder/straightWmGayPorn.html 

Ramsay, G. (2017). Straight women seeing gay porn:‘He’s too good looking!’. Porn Studies, 4(2), 157-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2017.1299037 

Sontag, S. (2001). Against interpretation: And other essays (Vol. 52). Macmillan. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Against_Interpretation/e3qgRrVlEH4C