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Index
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright Page
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE - WHAT WOULD OPRAH DO?: ETHICS AND THE GOOD LIFE AT 30 ROCK
ONE - BEING KENNETH: SOME MORAL LESSONS
Kenneth’s Moral Universe
Tested Virtue
Olympic Tetherball: A Final Lesson on Moral Frailty
TWO - SOUR LEMON: LIZ’S WORKAHOLISM AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
Blerg! Nerds! And Other Liz Lemon—Droppings
Sources of the Sour Self
Work, Love, and Marxism
When Life Gives You Liz’s Lemons, Can You Make Lemonade?
THREE - FRIENDSHIP ON 30 ROCK: WHAT A GREEK PHILOSOPHER CAN TEACH US ABOUT COMPANIONSHIP
Aristotle to the Rescue
FOUR - A CONFUCIAN-ARISTOTELIAN CRITIQUE OF 30 ROCK’S “SEMI-VIRTUOUS PATH”
The Virtuous Path
“The Semi-Virtuous Path”
“But What Can You Do When They Tell You Not To?” or, The Many Ways to Act Unjustly
Jack of Trade?
What Would Oprah Do?
“Well, It Got Big Laughs”
PART TWO - THE GIRLIE SHOW: GENDER, RACE, AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION AT 30 ROCK
FIVE - RACE AT THE ROCK: RACE CARDS, WHITE MYTHS, AND POSTRACIAL AMERICA
Meet Mr. Black
The Accidental Racist
Tracy Jordan Is Not Black: Racism and Racialism
Jenna Is Black
Tracy Plays the Race Card
SIX - GETTING GAY: HOW 30 ROCK HELPS US UNDERSTAND SEXUALITY
Can Devon Banks and Liz Lemon Choose Their Sexual Orientation?
What We Can Learn from Devon
Homophobia, Anyone?
Being Gay for Jamie (or, How to Rethink Sexuality)
SEVEN - AND THE FOLLOWSHIP AWARD GOES TO . . . THIRD-WAVE FEMINISM?
Third-Wave Feminists Inveigled: “You Can Really Have It All.”
Unbalancing Career and Family
Liz in Search of True Love: Being Defined Outside of Work
Tick-Tock and Liz’s Big Ben-Sized Biological Clock
Liz Meets the Elephant in the Room
PART THREE - DEALBREAKER!: CORPORATIONS, PROFESSIONS, AND POLITICS
EIGHT - MEDICINE’S NOT A SCIENCE: DR. LEO SPACE MAN AND THE ROLE OF THE ...
Free Diploma Day at the Ho Chi Minh City School of Medicine
“How Important Is Tooth Retention to You?”
“My Techniques Guarantee Male Orgasm”
“Medicine’s Not a Science!”
NINE - IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EAST COAST TELEVISION AND MICROWAVE ...
Does Jack Know Jack about Comedy?
Who Gets Credit?: The Trivection Oven and Greenzo
GE Has Been Brought to Life . . . and It’s Not a Good Thing
Is It All Just a Part of “the Game”?
The Corporate Mentality and TGS
Too Big to Function?
TEN - THE EMANCIPATION CORPORATION: LOVING AND LOATHING THE SHINEHARDT WIGS OF ...
GE: Man, Machine, or Martian?
Jack and GE Sitting in a Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
It’s Alive . . . Kill It!
Where’s Kenneth? We Need to Blame Someone!
ELEVEN - LIZ AND JACK CAN’T BE FRIENDS!: COMMUNITARIANISM, LIBERTARIANISM, AND ...
“I Wolfed My Teamster Sub for You!”—Liz
“I Have Faith . . . in Things I Can See and Buy and Deregulate. Capitalism Is ...
“Are These People Your Family? Why Are They All Smiling? Who’s Being Ostracized?”—Jack
“I Truly Don’t Like You as a Person. Can’t One Human Being Not Like Another ...
PART FOUR - MIND GRAPES (TO NOURISH YOUR THINKING)
TWELVE - “THE BUBBLE,” THE CAVE, AND SAMSARA : BEING DELUDED AT 30 ROCK
Illusion and Reality
“I Want to Use ‘ Ironic’ However I Want”
“That’s Not the Way I Remember It”
“For Men It’s Called a ‘ Hardy Boy’”
“I Can’t Handle the Truth!”
“No; You Look Younger. . . . You Look Like a Fetus.”
“Just Be Yourself and I Guarantee You, Every Single Person in This Room Will ...
The Danger of Thinking “Science Is Whatever We Want It to Be”; or, the ...
THIRTEEN - OF COOKIE JARS AND CEOS: TIME AND SELF ON 30 ROCK
Theory of Self: Who Are We?
Apollo, Apollo: Jack Donaghy and Our Encounter with the Past
Liz Lemon and High School: The More Things Change, the More They Don’t
FOURTEEN - ONE CITY’S CHEESE-CURL ADDICT IS ANOTHER CITY’S MODEL: A QUESTION OF TASTE
It Takes Two to Go Back to the 1980s: A Brief Introduction to Social Constructivism
“How Sex and the City Are We Right Now? I’ m Samantha, You’ re Charlotte, and ...
Should We Not All Be Able to Agree That Gold Boots Are Ugly?
You Can Take the Man out of Cleveland . . .
FIFTEEN - “I’ M STRAIGHT-UP MENTALLY ILL”: TRACY JORDAN AND TRUE, JUSTIFIED BELIEF
“Cuz I Don’t Believe in One-Way Streets”
“Cuz I Want to Drop Truth Bombs!”
“I Know Where That Building Is, I Get My Jamaican Meat Pies There”
“You Don’t Realize How Beautiful a Sunset Is Until It’s the Last One You’ll ...
“I Could Talk about How the Moon Is a Spy Satellite Put There by Oprah”
“Nothing Unusual. Russian Mobs, Invisible Motorcycles, Sex Pooping.”
SIXTEEN - PERFORMING AT 30 ROCK (AND EVERYWHERE ELSE)
Playing at 30 Rock
Playing Around
Performing to Death
Brass Balls: Performing Gender
Final Act
APPENDIX 1
APPENDIX 2
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
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