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American television today has drastically changed from the first appearance of the television in the 1920s. Currently, television is nothing but sitcoms poking jokes at the disabled, the LGBT community adapting to the American family standard, and even late night television poking fun at our 2016 Presidential candidates.1950s television depicted America’s heterosexual, patriarchal society in which an “ideal and acceptable” family consisted of a generous working class father, an accommodating and good-natured mother, and a few respectful children. Whereas 1950s American television required the audience to accept television families without question, American networks today understand that times are changing and just like mass communication, adapting to the millennial generation of technology is a must for television families to appeal to the growing masses. But when did television families first start to step away from the cultural ideals of its time? From the 1920s through the 1960s television upheld the Father Knows Best standard of television with shows such as ‘Father Knows Best” and “I Love Lucy.” Well, fast forward 30 years, and in came the Bundy’s. The Bundy’s were television’s first dysfunctional, on screen family to undermine the idea that an ideal family must function perfectly all the time. Married with Children reminded us that it was ok to not conform to society’s cultural norms. “…people want to watch a family that

Knowing or anticipating one’s audience is key to effective writing. Kaus is clearly cognisant of who will be reading her article as she focuses the content to highlight television shows that are extremely popular with the female demographics of the university. In 2014,

Sara Magee’s article, “High School is Hell: The TV Legacy of Beverly Hills, 90210, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (2014), argues that both television shows positively changed and impacted teen-based programs during and after their air time. Magee supports this claim by providing descriptions of how teens were depicted in teen-based dramas prior to the 1990’s and how these two shows introduced controversial topics that made teens think about their actions. Magee’s purpose is to point out how these two shows broke the norms of traditional teen dramas that focused on the ideal teen lifestyle in order to show that Beverly Hills, 90210 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer are the predecessors of controversial teen dramas of the 21st century. Based on the

In this Evaluation assignment, I will scrutinize a Television series called “Gossip Girl”. I will be examining the “Gossip Girl” series based on the following criteria, I believe “Gossip Girl” is one of the best shows that has ever existed. I have my reasons for that, “Gossip Girl” consecutively earned awards for the time they were on air, the inflamous cast and how teenagers can relate to the way that characters in the series deal with drama and romance situations in high school and college.

Every television show falls into one genre or another. Whether its an Action, Comedy, Drama, Adventure show, they all fall into the category of different types of television genres. The concept of a genre can be used in “rhetoric, literary theory, media theory and more recently linguistics, to refer to a distinctive type of ‘text’” (Chandler, 1). Thus, every aspect of television exhibits a reliance on genre in which becomes a principal factor of framing texts which support comprehension. Throughout this essay, I will focus specifically on the genre of Teen TV Drama using the television show Degrassi: The Next Generation, and comparing it to two other programs such as Saved by the Bell and Beverly Hills of 90210. Through this notion, we

set. It also makes it seem more realistic as it is set in a real

In conclusion, it is evident that throughout time one of the things that remained constant in television is the use of sociological theories to describe the functions of families. Select shows that display this are Switched at Birth, Full House, and The 100 which represent conflict theory, symbolic interactionalism, and feminist

What is a TV format? As Professor Jean Chalaby mentioned in his book that there are arguments about how to define TV format because it is a very complicated commodity. However, TV format can be defined in four dimensions, which including TV format as a licensed remake; TV format as a recipe; TV format as a proof of concept and as a method of production. (Chalaby, 2015) Based on the definition, this essay will analyse The Real Housewives as a TV format, with a special focus on one of the series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

A. Media has a huge impact on how people truly see themselves, particularly in women and young female teens. Reality television has made the standards of beauty quite high these days and there is a definite change in society’s view on what is truly beautiful. Turning off the TV has simply become too hard when it comes to reality TV shows

The cultural phenomenon ‘Reality Television (TV)’ has become an increasingly popular genre of television since its paroxysm onto the airwaves in 1945. The term ‘Reality Television’ can be defined as the genre of entertainment that documents the lives of ‘ordinary’ individuals through the exhibition of allegedly unscripted real-life scenarios, despite inquisitive inquiries disclosing Reality TV to entail facets of script. The primary objective of Reality TV is purely to entertain the audience. This genre of television is appealing to viewers due to its entertainment principle/value, the audience’s competency to correlate to the characters and their situations, and the contingency it presents for escapism and voyeurism. We can capitalise the Australian appropriation of the American popular dating Reality TV show ‘The Bachelor’ as a tool to further comprehend the purpose and appeal of Reality television. The postulations of media’s obligations to society in contrast to their current actions and media as a mirror to society - the normative theory, can also be utilised as an implement to apprehend Reality TV. Through the strict analysis of ‘ The Bachelor’ and the employment of the normative theory, the purpose and appealing factor of Reality TV can be deeply examined.

Reality television is considered to be essentially unscripted and unfiltered television programs where people showcase themselves depicting their real lives, the good, the bad and the ugly. Reality TV shows like “The Real Housewives” or “The Kardashians” exploit the lives of wealthy high-class people who portray drama, fortune and materialistic things. Since the beginning of the reality show phenomenon critics have been debating that reality television is nothing more than highly scripted flavored up television that attracts viewers with the allure of dramatic flare and sex appeal. Is reality television negatively effecting the perception of self and gender roles in young women who are viewing it?

The CW television show Gossip Girl, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage first aired in 2007 and is now available in its entirety on Netflix, is about privileged teenagers who live on the Upper East Side, Manhattan, who like to party and who live their lives around a mysterious website known as “Gossip Girl.” The anonymous website dishes on secrets and lies that surround nine characters who attended a preparatory school. Each episode is suspense-filled entertainment leaving the audience wanting more, especially its young female fan base. Like many teen-filled dramas, Gossip Girl’s target female audience is often easily influenced by what happens in the show. The title “Gossip Girl” contextually suggest the part of modern woman culture. A feminist definition of gossip is “a way of talking between women, intimate in style, personal and domestic in scope and setting, a female cultural event which springs from and perpetuates the restrictions of the female role, but also gives the comfort of validation” (Jones). Popular television shows today promote cultural values for the audience and are instrumental in shaping how people think and act. Because of this, it is important to analyze ideas such as gender or economics/class structure for deeper meaning. In the show Gossip Girl, the characters Blair Waldorf, Serena van der Woodsen, and Chuck Bass work to reinforce/reject traditional gender stereotypes throughout the film.

The week one screening of film Dead Set, a horror drama film created by Charlie Brooker and directed by Yann De-mange chronicles a nightmare scenario in which Britain is taken over by Zombies. It is essentially a spoof on reality television that depicts both the inside and outside worlds of the UK’s version of “Big Brother.” The film explores the parallels between zombies and contemporary reality television. Zombies represent the darker side of human nature (Gadsby, 2011), coinciding with the idea that reality television has the power to destruct and generate conceptions that construct the way society thinks.

Title: On Media consumption: An ethnographic account of women and their relationship with television program.

It was said that American TV drama Desperate Housewives and other shows allowed Channel 4 to hold on to both advertisers and audiences due to high profits (after tax of £48.5 million, an increase of nine per cent). Therefore, the case study of Channel 4 and Desperate Housewives is the demonstration of whether American programmes on British screens are the process of cultural interaction. Desperate Housewives was screened on Channel 4’s E4. “E” stands for entertainment, up to ahead of one week before other Channel 4 broadcasts. As a youth-focused channel, Channel 4 is mainly aimed at the 15–35-year-old youth demographic and has a history of broadcasting popular American comedy programme such as Desperate Housewives (ABC, USA, 2004-2012), How I Met Your Mother (20th Television, 2005-2014), Ugly Betty (ABC, USA, 2006-2010) and Friends (Warner Bros. Television, 1994-2004).