Saturday Night Live and Philosophy: Deep Thoughts Through the Decades

ISBN-13: 9781119538554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str.

William Irwin

Spis treści

Cast Members ixCold Open: The Introduction 1Part I The Opening Monologue 31 Chase's Ford vs. Belushi's Samurai: Why is it OK to Punch Up But Not Down? 5Ruth Tallman2 Mr. Mike: The Dark, Existentialist Vision of Michael O'Donoghue 15Erich Christiansen3 How Do They Get Away with It?: Pushing Boundaries with Offensive Material on Saturday Night Live 25Michael McGowan4 SNL, Satire, and Socrates: Smart-Assery or Seriousness? 39Joshua J. ReynoldsPart II Some Political Sketches 515 Saturday Night Live and the Political Bubble 53William Irwin6 Saturday Night Live and the Production of Political Truth: Foucault Explains the Danger of Late Night Comedy 63Kimberly S. Engels7 Word Associations, Black Jeopardy, and Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood: SNL Tackles Race 75J. Jeremy Wisnewski8 John Belushi, Chris Farley, and Stuart Smalley: Drugs and Recovery on Saturday Night Live 87William Irwin and J.R. LombardoPart III Some Sketches Featuring Your Favorite Recurring Characters 999 Dana Carvey vs. Darrell Hammond: What Does it Mean to be "Spot On," and Does it Matter? 101Tadd Ruetenik10 SNL's Blasphemy and Rippin' up the Pope: "Well Isn't That Special?" 109David Kyle Johnson11 "Wayne's World" and the Philosophy of Play 131Jason Holt12 Bulls, Bears, and Beers: Da Philosophy of Super Fandom 141Robin BarrettPart IV And Now for Our Musical Guest 14913 Liveness and Lip-Synching: Andy Kaufman and Eminem 151Theodore GracykPart V Weekend Update 16714 I Hate Applause: Norm Macdonald and Laughter 169Jeremy Fried15 Saturday Night Live's Citizen Journalists and the Nature of Democracy 177Kati Sudnick and Erik Garrett16 Fake News as Media Theory: SNL on TV Journalism 187Gerald J. Erion17 "Look, Children, It's a Falling Star": David Spade and SNL Family Disloyalty 199Jason Southworth and Ruth TallmanPart VI The Absurd Stuff That Happens Near the End 20918 The Simulated Reality of Saturday Night Live 211Edwardo Pérez19 Deep Thoughts about Deep Thoughts: The Existentialism of Jack Handey 223John Scott Gray20 The Ladies Man and "President Bush": Can Someone Be Too Stupid for Moral Responsibility? 231Jason SouthworthIndex 239

O autorze

JASON SOUTHWORTH is a philosophy instructor at several colleges and universities. His research focuses on the philosophy of language and applied ethics. He has been a regular contributor to the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series.RUTH TALLMAN teaches philosophy and serves as department chair at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, FL. She spends her summers as a seminar leader at the Sherwin B. Nuland Summer Institute in Bioethics at Yale University. She works in applied ethics, with a particular focus on biomedical ethics. Lately, her research has centered on ethical issues regarding physician-patient relationships.To learn more about the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, visit www.andphilosophy.com