Annotated Bibliography for Essay 3

Annotated Bibliography

Baldwin, Kristen. "The Accidental Movie Star." Entertainment Weekly 987 (2008): 20-26. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. This article details Tina Fey’s unintentional route to appearances on the big screen, fulfilling multiple roles in life at once – mother, comedy writer, small screen actress and big screen actress. It also illuminates how female viewers can relate to her character on 30 Rock and she serves as a role model to many. I will use this information to support my point of how Tina Fey is shaping pop culture through her work.

Clark, Cindy. "Funny Lady Tina Fey Gets an 'SNL'-Style Salute." USA Today n.d.: Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. This article details the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which Tina Fey won in 2010. I may be able to use some of this information to support my claim of a long history of comedic accomplishment and a forecast for continuing this into the future.

Freydkin, Donna. "The Inimitable Tina Fey." USA Today n.d.: Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. This article discusses Tina Fey’s many life roles including comedy writer, actress, mother and non-fiction author. It also talks about her impressions of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin impressions and how that made her a pop-culture staple. I plan to use this to explore how political satire can shape the political process.

Heffernan, Virginia. “Annals of Entertainment: Anchor Woman.” newyorker.com. The New Yorker. Condé Nast Digital. 3 November, 2003. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. This article focuses on Fey’s early work at Saturday Night Live and work on a screenplay (which ultimately was produced as the movie “Mean Girls.” I will use this article to explore her role in the male-dominated industry of comedy writing and her tendency to buck the status quo.

 Halperin, Mark, and John Heilemann. "The Uncertain Future of Sarah Palin." Time 175.3 (2010): 42-43. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Apr. 2011. This article looks at the possibility of Sarah Palin’s participation in the 2012 Presidential election. I plan to use this article to look at her influence on the Republican party and to explore the possibility of her future impact on pop culture as a public icon.

Leland, John. Hip: The History. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. Print. This book analyzes the history of the evolution of American pop culture and provides the basis for a definition of “hip”.  Mr. Leland serves as a reliable source due to his history of writing about pop culture, and the exhaustive notes and index included with the book are indicative that this work is based on solid research and not merely opinion. I plan to use extensive quotes from this book to establish my personal definition of hip for this essay.

“Oprah Talks to Tina Fey” O, The Oprah Magazine. Harpo Productions. February 2009. Web. 18 April, 2011. In this interview article, Oprah and Tina discuss her role as the first female head writer for Saturday Night Live and the show’s misogynistic past. I will tie this in to the misogyny seen in “hip”. I will also use information from this article to discuss Tina’s background and education and detail the different ways she has expressed her identity and roles.

Palin, Sarah. America By Heart: Reflecctions on Family, Faith, and Flag. New York: HarperCollins, 2010. Print. In this book Sarah Palin discusses her values in light of American history, recent events, and our culture. I will use this book to look at the values that drive her actions, which in turn should help me forecast her future course in politics and pop culture.

---. Going Rogue: An American Life. New York: HarperCollins, 2009. Print. This book is Sarah Palin’s memoir, written and published shortly after the 2008 election. It details her early life and education, her entrance into politics, and her experiences as a highly-public working mother. This book will help me define her as a woman who bucks the status quo on many different levels, as well as providing information on the various reinventions of self she has undergone over the course of her life and career.

Traister, Rebecca. Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. Print. This book contains a chapter that details Tina Fey’s Saturday Night Live impressions of Sarah Palin, along with other pop culture parodies that impacted the 2008 election. I will use this to look at the impact of pop culture, specifically political satire as trickterism as a mechanism for shaping public opinion and political matters.

Westfall, Sandra Sobieraj. "The Palins Get Real." People 74.19 (2010): 56-61. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Apr. 2011. This article looks at the Palin family and their recent entrance into reality tv. I plan to use a quote from this article to talk about Sarah Palin’s view on having the opportunity to influence the thinking of others.