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2. STRUCTUE: Genre Where does 30 Rock fit in? Series The background of 30 Rock Episode Episode 2.10 3. GENRE - 30 Rock is a situation comedy but toes the line between a multitude of genres - Takes elements from classic and contemporary iterations of the sitcom genre and has revived the concept of the sitcom - 30 Rock has subtly modified the sitcom - Shows like 30 Rock, My Name is Earl and Scrubs have rejuvenated the sitcom in terms of inventiveness and has constructed its own formula - 30 Rock offers new alternatives to the previous sitcom format by amplifying or minimizing elements - 30 Rocks style of comedy is based on tight storytelling, verbal humor and character-revealing situations, but 30 Rock uses caricature like jokes, satirical first person observations - Works on two district genre levels due to the show-within-a-show premise. 4. GENRE - Works in part as a sitcom and part as a form of sketch comedy in reference to Tina Feys previous experience at SNL - 30 Rock combines the elements of sketch comedy to create a show with heightened intertextuality and also fits within the sitcom genre. 5. SERIES Common themes - American Politics - Feminism - Representation of race - Culture of television industry 6. GUEST POLITICIANS - Condoleezza Rice - Al Gore - Tucker Carlson 7. - The "halitosis bomb" and "gay bomb" are informal names for two theoretical non-lethal chemical weapons that a United States Air Force research laboratory speculated about producing; the theories involve discharging female sex pheromones over enemy forces in order to make them sexually attracted to each other. 8. Dont waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when youre the boss. Or they wont. Who cares? Do your thing, and dont care if they like it. Tina Fey 9. The C- Word 10. - Critical of the television industry - Creative VS Corporate - Writers VS The money makers - What is being produced and how 11. EPISODE - Episode 2.10, written by Robert Carlock and Donald Grover, directed by Richard Shepard - Afraid to breech the legality of the strike - Hollywood was hit by 3 months of a continuous writers strike - Writers Guild of America (WGA) against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) - The AMPTP and the WGA finally reached an agreement that ended the strike 12. - Episode recap 13. - Thats something you do when youre married and have a family. - Makes reference to societies typical woman stereotype Lizs struggle to be the typical woman - Punctuated with reminders that Liz Lemon is not your typical woman - AOLs TV Squad said the episode "was a good episode to go into the hiatus with, if that makes things better". (C. Wayne, 2008). - This episode did sustain two unofficial titles; Liz the Business Woman and Coffee & TV 14. CONCLUSION - District levels of genre show-within-a-show - Intersects global issues -Laugh at everything, but question everything 15. WATCH IT! 16. REFERENCES L. Bratslavsky (2009), Television Representing Television: How NBCs 30 Rock Parodies and Satirizes the Cultural Industries, Thesis presented to the University of Oregon, Oregon S. Hume (2006), 30 Rock Creating a New Genre?, The New F-World blog, http://the-new-f- word.blogspot.com.au/..., date visited 7 September 2013 Kevin Klowden and Anusuya Chatterjee with Ross DeVol, Writers Strike of 20072008 - The Economic Impact of Digital Distribution, 2008, http://www.milkeninstitute.org/pdf/writers_strike.pdf, date visited 8 September 2013 George Freitag, 30 Rock Episode 2.10 recap, 2008, http://www.buddytv.com/articles/30-rock/30-rock- episode-210-recap-15575.aspx, date visited 8 September 2013 Michael Neal, Coffee & TV 2008, http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/30-rock/coffee-tv/, date visited 9 September 2013 W. Morris (2013), 30 Rock Landed on Us: Identity politics and NBC's most subversive show, http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8900291/30-rock-race-identity-politics, date visited Sept 7th 2013 L. Mizejewski (2012), Feminism, Postfeminism, Liz Lemonism, Genders Issue 55, Spring 2012, http://www.genders.org/g55/g55_mizejewski.html, date visted Sept 7th 2013 A. Seubsaeng, (2013), 30 Rock: A Political History, http://www.motherjones.com/mixed- media/2013/01/hilarious-politics-30-rock-nbc-tina-fey, date visited Sept 7th 2013