DOCSLIB.ORG

30 ROCK "Hard to Swallow" Written By Sam Mandragona

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

THIS SCRIPTS IS AVAILABLE TO READ OR DOWNLOAD PLEASE SCROLL DOWN 30 ROCK "Hard to Swallow" Written by Sam Mandragona Sam Mandragona [email protected] 609 819 5921 1. ACT ONE FADE IN: EXT. 45TH STREET - DAY LIZ LEMON is walking down the street and stops at a store to watch some people play Rock Band. She glances up at the TVs in the window to see CNBC with the caption title "GE and Rooster Roaster Merger." CUT TO: INT. GE BOARD ROOM - DAY Seated at the conference table are DON GEISS, JACK DONAGHY, COLONEL AUGUSTUS SHERIDAN, the Chairman of Rooster Roaster and JONAH FLEMING, the CEO of The BIG Network with an unknown woman. The press conference is underway. DON GEISS This is the greatest opportunity in the history of General Electric to prepare us for the future. Everybody at the table nods their approval and smiles. DON GEISS (CONT'D) Isn't that right Colonel Sheridan? The Colonel is a tall man with white muttonchops, wearing a tan suit with a large cowboy hat. He stands and picks up the microphone to make his point. COLONEL SHERIDAN Well, Great Balls of Fire, this here is 'bout the finest business deal I rightly done since I started sellin' chicken tenders from the back of my 1965 Vista Cruiser wagon. The Colonel sits down as Don Geiss motions for a question from the reporters. REPORTER 1 Mr. Geiss, you each own a television network, NBC and the BIG Network. Will this pose a problem for FCC approval? 2. Jack clears his throat and motions to Don Geiss who nods approvingly. CUT TO: INT. THE 8TH FLOOR OF 30 ROCK - DAY The elevator doors open and Liz Lemon enters the hallway. Many of the workers are gathered around watching the hallway TV monitors. KENNETH comes over and is clearly nervous. KENNETH Ms. Lemon! What does this mean? I'm frightened. LIZ There's nothing to be afraid of. KENNETH What will become of our beloved and proud peacock? Taken over by heathens and harlots. Kenneth brushes his lapel pin. LIZ I'm sure Mr Donaghy will take care of everything. KENNETH I don't know Ms. Lemon. The newspapers are saying terrible things. Kenneth shows her various newspaper covers with different corny titles, "Peacock Plucked", "GE Cooked", "Well Done" "Cock-A-Doodle Due" "Size Matters" and one newspaper Kenneth is hesitant to show. LIZ What does that one say? KENNETH It's shameful. Beware the crow of the cock for it harbors the evil of men. The work of the Devil. Kenneth shows her the newspaper. Liz grimaces. LIZ Can they say that? In print? Kenneth looks at the newspaper quizzically. The front page shows a rooster with peacock feathers. The headline says "Big Cock Network!" 3. KENNETH I don't see why not--Oh my Lord! You're right. I told you. It's the work of the Dark Lord and his demons from the New York Post. They turn to watch the press conference on the TV monitors. CUT TO: INT. GE BOARD ROOM - CONTINUOUS JACK I will be preparing the necessary due diligence with the BIG Network leaders. Jack motions to Jonah Fleming who is engaged in a conversation with the woman and not paying attention to what is going on. REPORTER 1 Are you concerned about the FCC approval? Ownership of two networks faces media monopoly jurisdiction. JACK We don't see this as a problem and will meet whatever requirements the FCC deems necessary. Another reporter asks a question. REPORTER 2 How will you deal with the fact that the BIG Network is predominately exploitative programming? JACK And your point is? Everybody loves breasts and thighs. I'm sorry, was it chicken we were talking about? The reporter ignores Jack's joke and continues. REPORTER 2 The BIG Network is on a perpetual 15 second delay to avoid any inappropriate material. JACK We see no problem with that. Besides, the benefits of this combined merger will make us recession proof. 4. REPORTER 2 Even with advertising revenues remaining flat? JACK True, but this new company represents exactly what people crave most. Nuclear reactors, turbines, fast food and sex. Isn't that right? Jonah? Jack motions to Jonah Fleming who stops talking to the woman and leans into the microphone JONAH FLEMING I couldn't agree more. In this economy what else is there to do but eat and-- The screen cuts to color bars. CUT TO: INT. THE 8TH FLOOR OF 30 ROCK - CONTINUOUS Liz and Kenneth are startled at what they just saw on the TV. The voice of TRACY JORDAN is heard coming down the hallway. TRACY Liz Lemon! Did you hear what was just said on the TV? My "special" word. LIZ Of course, I heard it. Everybody did. TRACY How come he can say it and I can't? My reputation is sufferin'. I'm like a neutered version of Scarface. KENNETH Mr. Jordan. You don't need to bring yourself down to the level of hoodlums and gangsters. You're a real star. TRACY Then how come P-Diddy won't invite me to his parties? LIZ Tracy, we spoke about this before. (MORE) 5. LIZ (CONT'D) Don't make me wash your mouth out with soap again. Tracy reacts with horror at the thought. TRACY Oh! not that. When my mouth started foamin' Grizz thought I had rabies. He called the ASPCA on me. They are interrupted by CERI. CERI I'm sorry Ms. Lemon. Mr Donaghy just called. He needs you in his office in 15 minutes. LIZ This can't be good. (under her breath) Should I bring my soap? Liz walks away and heads towards her office. CUT TO: INT. JACK'S OFFICE - DAY Jack is with Jonah Fleming discussing the fallout from the press conference. Jack is clearly annoyed with Jonah. JACK There is no 15 second delay on CNBC. Your remark was heard around the world and probably picked up by at least three UFOs circling the earth. JONAH FLEMING Why don't you loosen your over starched tie and relax. JACK Do you understand what's at stake here? This will be the biggest merger in the world next to the marriage of Madonna and Prince Harry. Jonah leans back in his chair and picks up an award which looks like a lightbulb. Jack carefully takes it from Jonah's hand and places it gently back on the table. 6. JACK (CONT'D) Easy there, that was for my first bright idea at GE, the consolidated off switch for disarming a nuclear reactor meltdown. Not many people receive the "Sacred Bulb" award. I have six. A record. JONAH FLEMING (sarcastically) I get it, Jack. JACK What you're going to get is this. The FCC wants us to show the benefit of the combined network. JONAH FLEMING Before the actual merger is approved? What if I say no? JACK If not, then they're fine with turning the BIG Network into a home shopping channel for locomotives and chicken wings. Jonah reaches for another "lightbulb award." Jack looks disapprovingly and Jonah pulls his hand back. JONAH FLEMING Easy there "ke-mo sah-bee" we'll work it out. Your success is my success. JACK Not exactly. Your success is tied to money, beautiful women and the infantile behavior associated with immature millionaires and Democrats celebrating the end of the Bush administration. Jonah nods approvingly and smiles. JACK (CONT'D) For me, this is corporate Viagra. It's about power and lasting control. Jack adjusts his suit and fixes his tie. JACK (CONT'D) And of course the infantile behavior associated with immature millionaires. 7. They both laugh and shake hands as Jonah exits the office. Jack picks up the "lightbulb award" and polishes it as he places it back on the desk. He pumps his fist in excitement. CUT TO: INT. THE WRITERS ROOM - DAY The writers are gathered around the table discussing the merger. Liz Lemon is trying to calm them down. A video of the BIG Network's show, "Wild Women With Talent" is playing. LIZ Listen up! This isn't as bad as it looks. All Mr. Donaghy wants is a new show that will combine the best of ours with the best of theirs. FRANK But those guys suck! I've seen better jokes written on a bathroom stall. LUTZ The network is nothing but MILFs, WILFs and filth. FRANK Totally engrossing programming for the juvenile masses of pimply teens and perverts. You got me. I'm sold. LUTZ It's hopeless. No matter what we come up with we couldn't compete with lingerie rugby in heels or bikini cat-fights in Cool Whip. LIZ If we don't do this, then the FCC will cancel the merger. The writers shrug and fold their arms in protest. LIZ (CONT'D) If that happens then I don't want to be here when Mr. Donaghy appears dressed as a postal worker with that strange far away look in his eyes. CUT TO: INT. THE 8TH FLOOR OF 30 ROCK - DAY Jack Donaghy is dressed in a postal uniform with red glowing eyes and is walking through the hallway reminiscent of "The 8. Terminator." Everyone is running and screaming as he walks through the corridors. CUT TO: INT. THE WRITERS ROOM - CONTINUOUS The writers agree and begin to toss out ideas. There is a knock at the door. LIZ See, the family that plays together stays together. Some of the writers from the other show are going to join us.
Recommended publications
  • Bad Is Stronger Than Good

    Bad Is Stronger Than Good

    Review of General Psychology Copyright 2001 by the Educational Publishing Foundation 2001. Vol. 5. No. 4. 323-370 1089-2680/O1/S5.O0 DOI: 10.1037//1089-2680.5.4.323 Bad Is Stronger Than Good Roy F. Baumeister and Ellen Bratslavsky Catrin Finkenauer Case Western Reserve University Free University of Amsterdam Kathleen D. Vohs Case Western Reserve University The greater power of bad events over good ones is found in everyday events, major life events (e.g., trauma), close relationship outcomes, social network patterns, interper- sonal interactions, and learning processes. Bad emotions, bad parents, and bad feedback have more impact than good ones, and bad information is processed more thoroughly than good. The self is more motivated to avoid bad self-definitions than to pursue good ones. Bad impressions and bad stereotypes are quicker to form and more resistant to disconfirmation than good ones. Various explanations such as diagnosticity and sa- lience help explain some findings, but the greater power of bad events is still found when such variables are controlled. Hardly any exceptions (indicating greater power of good) can be found. Taken together, these findings suggest that bad is stronger than good, as a general principle across a broad range of psychological phenomena. Centuries of literary efforts and religious pothesis that bad is stronger than good (see also thought have depicted human life in terms of a Rozin & Royzman, in press). That is, events struggle between good and bad forces. At the that are negatively valenced (e.g., losing metaphysical level, evil gods or devils are the money, being abandoned by friends, and receiv- opponents of the divine forces of creation and ing criticism) will have a greater impact on the harmony.
  • Bossypants? One, Because the Name Two and a Half Men Was Already Taken

    Bossypants? One, Because the Name Two and a Half Men Was Already Taken

    Acknowledgments I would like to gratefully thank: Kay Cannon, Richard Dean, Eric Gurian, John Riggi, and Tracy Wigfield for their eyes and ears. Dave Miner for making me do this. Reagan Arthur for teaching me how to do this. Katie Miervaldis for her dedicated service and Latvian demeanor. Tom Ceraulo for his mad computer skills. Michael Donaghy for two years of Sundays. Jeff and Alice Richmond for their constant loving encouragement and their constant loving interruption, respectively. Thank you to Lorne Michaels, Marc Graboff, and NBC for allowing us to reprint material. Contents Front Cover Image Welcome Dedication Introduction Origin Story Growing Up and Liking It All Girls Must Be Everything Delaware County Summer Showtime! That’s Don Fey Climbing Old Rag Mountain Young Men’s Christian Association The Windy City, Full of Meat My Honeymoon, or A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again Either The Secrets of Mommy’s Beauty Remembrances of Being Very Very Skinny Remembrances of Being a Little Bit Fat A Childhood Dream, Realized Peeing in Jars with Boys I Don’t Care If You Like It Amazing, Gorgeous, Not Like That Dear Internet 30 Rock: An Experiment to Confuse Your Grandparents Sarah, Oprah, and Captain Hook, or How to Succeed by Sort of Looking Like Someone There’s a Drunk Midget in My House A Celebrity’s Guide to Celebrating the Birth of Jesus Juggle This The Mother’s Prayer for Its Daughter What Turning Forty Means to Me What Should I Do with My Last Five Minutes? Acknowledgments Copyright * Or it would be the biggest understatement since Warren Buffett said, “I can pay for dinner tonight.” Or it would be the biggest understatement since Charlie Sheen said, “I’m gonna have fun this weekend.” So, you have options.
  • Masterarbeit / Master's Thesis

    Masterarbeit / Master's Thesis

    MASTERARBEIT / MASTER’S THESIS Titel der Masterarbeit / Title of the Master‘s Thesis „Representations of Female Nerds in U.S.-American Sitcoms“ verfasst von / submitted by Beate Reichl, BA BA angestrebter akademischer Grad / in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (MA) Wien, 2018 / Vienna 2018 Studienkennzahl lt. Studienblatt / A 066 844 degree programme code as it appears on the student record sheet: Studienrichtung lt. Studienblatt / Anglophone Literatures and Cultures degree programme as it appears on the student record sheet: Betreut von / Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Alexandra Ganser-Blumenau Acknowledgements First, I would like to thank my supervisor, Prof. Alexandra Ganser-Blumenau. Then, I would like to offer my special thanks to my aunt, Susanne Reichl, for being my continuous role model and adviser. Finally yet importantly, I wish to acknowledge the never-ending support provided by my husband, Manuel Engel, my parents and close friends. Table of Contents List of Figures .............................................................................................. i 1 Introduction ................................................................................................ 1 2 Representations of the Nerd ...................................................................... 2 Representation .................................................................................... 2 Stereotypes ......................................................................................... 3 The Nerd
  • The Generalissimo

    The Generalissimo

    the generalissimo ګ The Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek and the Struggle for Modern China Jay Taylor the belknap press of harvard university press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, En gland 2009 .is Chiang Kai- shek’s surname ګ The character Copyright © 2009 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Taylor, Jay, 1931– The generalissimo : Chiang Kai- shek and the struggle for modern China / Jay Taylor.—1st. ed. â p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978- 0- 674- 03338- 2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Chiang, Kai- shek, 1887–1975. 2. Presidents—China— Biography. 3. Presidents—Taiwan—Biography. 4. China—History—Republic, 1912–1949. 5. Taiwan—History—1945– I. Title. II. Title: Chiang Kai- shek and the struggle for modern China. DS777.488.C5T39 2009 951.04′2092—dc22 [B]â 2008040492 To John Taylor, my son, editor, and best friend Contents List of Mapsâ ix Acknowledgmentsâ xi Note on Romanizationâ xiii Prologueâ 1 I Revolution 1. A Neo- Confucian Youthâ 7 2. The Northern Expedition and Civil Warâ 49 3. The Nanking Decadeâ 97 II War of Resistance 4. The Long War Beginsâ 141 5. Chiang and His American Alliesâ 194 6. The China Theaterâ 245 7. Yalta, Manchuria, and Postwar Strategyâ 296 III Civil War 8. Chimera of Victoryâ 339 9. The Great Failureâ 378 viii Contents IV The Island 10. Streams in the Desertâ 411 11. Managing the Protectorâ 454 12. Shifting Dynamicsâ 503 13. Nixon and the Last Yearsâ 547 Epilogueâ 589 Notesâ 597 Indexâ 699 Maps Republican China, 1928â 80–81 China, 1929â 87 Allied Retreat, First Burma Campaign, April–May 1942â 206 China, 1944â 293 Acknowledgments Extensive travel, interviews, and research in Taiwan and China over five years made this book possible.
  • 30 Rock and Philosophy: We Want to Go to There (The Blackwell

    30 Rock and Philosophy: We Want to Go to There (The Blackwell

    ftoc.indd viii 6/5/10 10:15:56 AM 30 ROCK AND PHILOSOPHY ffirs.indd i 6/5/10 10:15:35 AM The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series Series Editor: William Irwin South Park and Philosophy X-Men and Philosophy Edited by Robert Arp Edited by Rebecca Housel and J. Jeremy Wisnewski Metallica and Philosophy Edited by William Irwin Terminator and Philosophy Edited by Richard Brown and Family Guy and Philosophy Kevin Decker Edited by J. Jeremy Wisnewski Heroes and Philosophy The Daily Show and Philosophy Edited by David Kyle Johnson Edited by Jason Holt Twilight and Philosophy Lost and Philosophy Edited by Rebecca Housel and Edited by Sharon Kaye J. Jeremy Wisnewski 24 and Philosophy Final Fantasy and Philosophy Edited by Richard Davis, Jennifer Edited by Jason P. Blahuta and Hart Weed, and Ronald Weed Michel S. Beaulieu Battlestar Galactica and Iron Man and Philosophy Philosophy Edited by Mark D. White Edited by Jason T. Eberl Alice in Wonderland and The Offi ce and Philosophy Philosophy Edited by J. Jeremy Wisnewski Edited by Richard Brian Davis Batman and Philosophy True Blood and Philosophy Edited by Mark D. White and Edited by George Dunn and Robert Arp Rebecca Housel House and Philosophy Mad Men and Philosophy Edited by Henry Jacoby Edited by Rod Carveth and Watchman and Philosophy James South Edited by Mark D. White ffirs.indd ii 6/5/10 10:15:36 AM 30 ROCK AND PHILOSOPHY WE WANT TO GO TO THERE Edited by J. Jeremy Wisnewski John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ffirs.indd iii 6/5/10 10:15:36 AM To pages everywhere .
  • Mark Steyn, Fred Thompson, John Bolton, Victor Davis Hanson, & Many More Tremendous Speakers (Ok, We’Ll Name Them)

    Mark Steyn, Fred Thompson, John Bolton, Victor Davis Hanson, & Many More Tremendous Speakers (Ok, We’Ll Name Them)

    2011_08_01_cover61404-postal.qxd 7/12/2011 8:15 PM Page 1 August 1, 2011 49145 $4.99 MAGGIE GALLAGHER: WHAT’S NEXT FOR MARRIAGE? UnfairUnfair LaborLabor PracticesPractices The Case Against America’s Nightmarish Labor Law $4.99 31 Robert VerBruggen 0 74820 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 7/12/2011 11:30 PM Page 1 toc_QXP-1127940144.qxp 7/13/2011 1:28 PM Page 2 Contents AUGUST 1, 2011 | VOLUME LXIII, NO. 14 | www.nationalreview.com COVER STORY Page 31 National Labor Robert Costa on Thaddeus McCotter Relations Bias p. 21 The National Labor Relations Board under Obama has made BOOKS, ARTS few friends among conservatives. & MANNERS But the current behavior of the 40 HOW BIG HE IS David Paul Deavel reviews NLRB is only the outermost layer of G. K. Chesterton: A Biography, the true problem: the National Labor by Ian Ker. Relations Act. Robert VerBruggen 41 ISLAMIC DEMOCRACY? Victor Davis Hanson reviews The Wave: Man, God, and the Ballot COVER: UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD/CORBIS Box in the Middle East, by Reuel ARTICLES Marc Gerecht, and Trial of a Thousand Years: World Order 16 ROMNEY’S RESISTIBLE RISE by Ramesh Ponnuru and Islamism, by Charles Hill. The GOP contemplates a wedding of convenience. 43 THE NIEBUHRIAN MEAN 20 REAGAN’S LASTING REALIGNMENT by Michael G. Franc Daniel J. Mahoney reviews Why It shapes politics still. Niebuhr Now?, by John Patrick Diggins. 21 A HARD DAY’S NIGHT by Robert Costa Rep. Thaddeus McCotter wins the insomniac caucus. 45 CHINA’S BIG LIE John Derbyshire reviews Such Is 23 GAY OLD PARTY? by Maggie Gallagher This [email protected], How New York Republicans caved, and where the marriage campaigns go next.
  • 2012 CKD Guideline

    2012 CKD Guideline

    OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY KDIGO 2012 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease VOLUME 3 | ISSUE 1 | JANUARY 2013 http://www.kidney-international.org KDIGO 2012 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease KDIGO gratefully acknowledges the following consortium of sponsors that make our initiatives possible: Abbott, Amgen, Bayer Schering Pharma, Belo Foundation, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chugai Pharmaceutical, Coca-Cola Company, Dole Food Company, Fresenius Medical Care, Genzyme, Hoffmann-LaRoche, JC Penney, Kyowa Hakko Kirin, NATCO—The Organization for Transplant Professionals, NKF-Board of Directors, Novartis, Pharmacosmos, PUMC Pharmaceutical, Robert and Jane Cizik Foundation, Shire, Takeda Pharmaceutical, Transwestern Commercial Services, Vifor Pharma, and Wyeth. Sponsorship Statement: KDIGO is supported by a consortium of sponsors and no funding is accepted for the development of specific guidelines. http://www.kidney-international.org contents & 2013 KDIGO VOL 3 | ISSUE 1 | JANUARY (1) 2013 KDIGO 2012 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease v Tables and Figures vii KDIGO Board Members viii Reference Keys x CKD Nomenclature xi Conversion Factors & HbA1c Conversion xii Abbreviations and Acronyms 1 Notice 2 Foreword 3 Work Group Membership 4 Abstract 5 Summary of Recommendation Statements 15 Introduction: The case for updating and context 19 Chapter 1: Definition, and classification
  • Meta-Television in Entourage, Extras and 30 Rock Introduction the Last Decade Has Seen a Number Of

    Meta-Television in Entourage, Extras and 30 Rock Introduction the Last Decade Has Seen a Number Of

    PREVIOUSLY ON “Cut the Shitcom”: Meta-television in Entourage, Extras and 30 Rock Toni Pape Introduction The last decade has seen a number of fictional TV series about television and film production. These television shows – including the ones to be analysed here: Entourage, Extras, and 30 Rock – relocate the process of creative revitalization in front of the camera. Meta-television, as I understand it here, then is television about the media industry and, more particularly, about the production and quality of film and television itself.1 The three above-mentioned television programs present contemporary writers, actors, directors, etc. working on movies and television shows. Especially Extras and 30 Rock offer a critical overview of how television formats are produced, and they significantly do so in a period of time during which the working conditions for television-makers have fundamentally changed. In a most general sense, the criticism that these shows purport works on two levels. First, as we will see further on, there is an explicit criticism implied in the way the TV shows at hand present the making of a TV show. Thus, there is for instance Andy Millman, the protagonist of Extras about whom I will have more to say later on, who clearly states his dissatisfaction as a disillusioned actor/writer: ANDY: I wanna do something that I’m proud of. And I won’t be proud of shouting out catch phrases in a stupid wig and funny glasses. […] So basically, I’m not going to prostitute myself anymore or my work, ok? (Extras “Orlando Bloom”, 21’30”) In a very outspoken way, the programs in question take stock of television’s outworn creative standards and its resulting mediocrity.
  • MASARYK UNIVERSITY Portrayal of African Americans in the Media

    MASARYK UNIVERSITY Portrayal of African Americans in the Media

    MASARYK UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF EDUCATION Department of English Language and Literature Portrayal of African Americans in the Media Master‟s Diploma Thesis Brno 2014 Supervisor: Author: Mgr. Zdeněk Janík, M.A., Ph.D. Bc. Lucie Pernicová Declaration I hereby declare that I have worked on this thesis independently, using only the primary and secondary sources listed in the bibliography. ........................................................ Bc. Lucie Pernicová Acknowledgement I would like to thank my supervisor Mgr. Zdeněk Janík, M.A., Ph.D. for the patient guidance and valuable advice he provided me with during the writing of this thesis. Table of Contents 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................... 5 2. Portrayal of African Americans in Films and on Television ..................................... 8 2.1. Stereotypical Images and Their Power .............................................................. 8 2.2. Basic Stereotypical Images of African Americans ............................................ 9 2.3. Stereotypical Film Portrayals of African Americans and the Arrival of the Talking Era .................................................................................................................. 12 2.4. Television Portrayals of African Americans .................................................... 14 2.4.1. The Increasing Importance of African American Viewers ....................... 17 2.4.2. Contemporary Images of African Americans ..........................................
  • Gender and Humour II: Reinventing The

    Gender and Humour II: Reinventing The

    Issue 2011 35 Gender and Humour II: Reinventing the Genres of Laughter Edited by Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier ISSN 1613-1878 Editor About Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier Gender forum is an online, peer reviewed academic University of Cologne journal dedicated to the discussion of gender issues. As an English Department electronic journal, gender forum offers a free-of-charge Albertus-Magnus-Platz platform for the discussion of gender-related topics in the D-50923 Köln/Cologne fields of literary and cultural production, media and the Germany arts as well as politics, the natural sciences, medicine, the law, religion and philosophy. Inaugurated by Prof. Dr. Tel +49-(0)221-470 2284 Beate Neumeier in 2002, the quarterly issues of the journal Fax +49-(0)221-470 6725 have focused on a multitude of questions from different email: [email protected] theoretical perspectives of feminist criticism, queer theory, and masculinity studies. gender forum also includes reviews and occasionally interviews, fictional pieces and Editorial Office poetry with a gender studies angle. Laura-Marie Schnitzler, MA Sarah Youssef, MA Opinions expressed in articles published in gender forum Christian Zeitz (General Assistant, Reviews) are those of individual authors and not necessarily endorsed by the editors of gender forum. Tel.: +49-(0)221-470 3030/3035 email: [email protected] Submissions Editorial Board Target articles should conform to current MLA Style (8th edition) and should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words in Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee, length. Please make sure to number your paragraphs Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany) and include a bio-blurb and an abstract of roughly 300 Prof.
  • Central Aflame! Rica

    Central Aflame! Rica

    Central rica• Aflame! We print below an edited and abridged transcript of a public talk given by Oliver Stephens. Spartacist Canada editor. in To­ ronto May 7. Jeane Kirkpatrick. the V.S.'s Madame Chiang Kai-shek and VN ambassador. wrote a telling little piece a few years ago about a pet butcher of hers, one of those "mod- Defend, Complete, Extend Nicaraguan Revolution! Kill the Invaders! Salvadoran Leftists: On To Victory! erately authoritarian" people that the V .S. seeks to support in its holy crusade against communism: "Hermindez Martinez is such a hero. General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez, who governed EI Salvador from 1931 to 1944, was minister of war ... when there I occurred widespread uprisings said to be the hail in their drive to w ar a~;ain s t the Soviet V nion. work of Communist agitators. General Hernandez Ronald Reagan and his class have their own dom­ Martinez then staged a coup and ruthlessly sup­ ino theory: first crush the communists in EI Sal­ pressed the disorders-wiping out all those who vador, then smash the Sandillistas ill Nicaragua and participated, hunting down their leaders. It is roll on to getting rid of that thorn in the side of sometimes said that 30,000 persons lost their American imperialism. C ~~ ba. just 90 miles off the lives in the process .... The traditional death shore of Florida. It's very much the pdiey of ,John squads that pursue revolutionary activities and Foster Dulles in the height of the Cold I\' a1': roll leaders in contemporary EI Salvador call them­ back the communists throughout the world" We in the selves Hernandez Martinez Brigades, seeking international Spartacist tendency (iSt) say: The thereby to place themselves in EI Salvador's po­ defense of Cuba and the VSSR begins in Central li tical tradition and comm unicate their purposes.
  • How NBC's 30 Rock Parodies and Satirizes The

    How NBC's 30 Rock Parodies and Satirizes The

    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by University of Oregon Scholars' Bank TELEVISION REPRESENTING TELEVISION: HOW NBC'S 30 ROCK PARODIES AND SATIRIZES THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES by LAUREN M. BRATSLAVSKY A THESIS Presented to the School ofJournalism and Communication and the Graduate School ofthe University of Oregon in partial fulfillment ofthe requirements for the degree of Master of Science June 2009 11 "Television Representing Television: How NBC's 30 Rock Parodies and Satirizes the Cultural Industries," a thesis prepared by Lauren M. Bratslavsky in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science degree in the School of Journalism and Communication. This thesis has been approved and accepted by: Committee in Charge: Carl Bybee, Chair Patricia Curtin Janet Wasko Accepted by: Dean ofthe Graduate School III © 2009 Lauren Bratslavsky IV An Abstract ofthe Thesis of Lauren Bratslavsky for the degree of Master of Science in the School ofJournalism and Communication to be taken June 2009 Title: TELEVISION REPRESENTING TELEVISION: HOW NBC'S 30 ROCK PARODIES AND SATIRIZES THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES Approved: This project analyzes the cun-ent NBC television situation comedy 30 Rock for its potential as a popular form ofcritical cultural criticism of the NBC network and, in general, the cultural industries. The series is about the behind the scenes work of a fictionalized comedy show, which like 30 Rock is also appearing on NBC. The show draws on parody and satire to engage in an ongoing effort to generate humor as well as commentary on the sitcom genre and industry practices such as corporate control over creative content and product placement.