Saturday night live and American TV
By: edited by Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz, and Ron Becker
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780253010773; 9780253010827
Subjects: Saturday night live (Television program); Television programs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: situating Saturday night live in American television culture / Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz, and Ron Becker; title: Live from New York on NBC. The evolution of Saturday Night / Michele Hilmes; title: "Live from New York!" / Susan Murray, Michael O'Donoghue; title: Experimental television comedy, and Saturday night live's authorship / Evan Elkins; title: Staying alive on Saturday night. Politics and the brand: Saturday night live's campaign season humor / Jeffrey P. Jones; title: Speaking too soon: SNL, 9/11, and the remaking of American irony / Matt Sienkiewicz; title: Live music: mediating musical performance and discord on Saturday night live / Alyxandra Vesey; title: Going backstage: network heritage, industrial identities, and reiterated mediation of Saturday night live's work worlds / Derek Johnson; title: Social politics and comedic representation. Bringing the black: Eddie Murphy and African American humor on Saturday night live / Racquel Gates; title: "Is this the era of the woman?": SNL's gender politics in the new millennium / Caryn Murphy; title: SNL's "Fauxbama" debate: facing off over millennial (mixed-)racial impersonation / Mary Beltrán; title: Beyond Saturday Night, beyond television. Skits strung together: performance, narrative, and the sketch comedy aesthetic in SNL films / Nick Marx; title: Andy Samberg's digital success story and other myths of the Internet comedy club / Ethan Thompson and Ethan Tussey; title: Sketches gone viral: from watercooler talk to participatory comedy / David Gurney.