Jason Momoa’s second time hosting SNL was a feel good experience as advertised. We discuss the Biden Panda Cold Open and the politics of distraction, Old Timey Movies and the psychology of photography, Remember Lizards and the commodification and production of art, and a few classic Momoa moments like Cast Away and GE Big Boys (2018) that satirize masculinity. Readings include Stanley Milgram’s take on photography, “The Politics of Distraction” by Liebovitch, and a new paper from Charisse and Bob Thompson on journalism as entertainment.
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Readings
Carver, J. (2023). GE Big Boys (Saturday Night Live, S44E8, NBC 2018). In C.L. Corsbie-Massay (Author) Diversity and Satire: Laughing at Processes of Marginalization (Wiley, 2023).
Connell, R. W., & Messerschmidt, J. W. (2005). Hegemonic masculinity: Rethinking the concept. Gender & society, 19(6), 829-859. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27640853
Corsbie-Massay, C.L. & Thompson, R.J. (Nov 2023), Love It and/or Hate It, Journalism as Entertainment. In N. Bowman (Ed). Entertainment Media and Communication; Handbooks of Communication Science. DeGruyter. https://charisselpree.me/2023/11/16/journalism-as-entertainment/
Milgram, S. (1976, June 3). The image-freezing machine. New Society, 1, 7–12. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02694642
Liebovich, M. (2015 Sep 1) “The politics of distraction.” The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/magazine/the-politics-of-distraction.html
Nineham, C. “Culture under capitalism: why art is alienated” Counterfire https://www.counterfire.org/article/culture-under-capitalism-why-art-is-alienated-the-dialectics-of-art-review/
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