Abstract
Humor has been a way for people to approach tough topics for many years in American media. One show well known for it is Saturday Night Live. This study approaches analyzing episodes of Saturday Night Live with Butler and Goffman's theories of performance with a focus on how gender is presented and performed. Gender has been presented differently over the years on the long-lasting program. Stereotypes about women and men are present in each episode. This study also looks at how actors perform the characters and how that is a performance of their characters performing in the social interactions of each sketch. Each character does everything they do to create a view of themselves they wish others to see. Gender is a pert of this performance, but gender is also performative and something that is constantly happening because of how we were raised.
Advisor
Kardulias, P. Nicholas
Department
Sociology and Anthropology
Recommended Citation
Turner, Jordan C., "Live From New York, it's a Performance in a Performance: An Examination of How Gender, Gender Performance, and How Individuals Behave in Social Interactions can be Viewed in the Program Saturday Night Live" (2014). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 5960.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/5960
Disciplines
Gender and Sexuality
Keywords
gender, Saturday Night Live, humor, social interaction, performance, gender performativity
Publication Date
2014
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
© Copyright 2014 Jordan C. Turner