Performance art, as a practice, may have found its fullest realization in the work of Saturday Night Live (SNL)’s Tina Fey. Fey’s channeling of Sarah Palin’s character is uncanny. In her re-staging of Katie Couric’s Palin interview and Palin’s performance at the Vice Presidential “debate,” Fey has merged the absurd-in-the-real to the really absurd, producing [...]
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Speaking of Performance…
Posted in Comedy, Performance, Popular Culture, Television, tagged Annie Sprinkle, Comedy, McCain, Obama, Palin, parody, politics on October 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sarah Palin’s Performance of Self
Posted in Beyond Borders, Performance, Popular Culture, tagged Americana, Palin, Rebranding, Vice President on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sarah Palin’s qualifications for the second most powerful position in the land have nothing to do with her experience (or her lack of it) or the fact that she doesn’t know about the Bush doctrine. Indeed it has nothing to do with the realization that she never met a foreign leader until she visited the [...]
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