INTRODUCTION Dance Moms, in its fourth season on Lifetime, a channel whose main demographic is women, featuring dance studio owner/dance teacher Abby Lee Miller, is the flagship “maternal television” program to be examined in this paper. Abby is famous for the pyramid, a system in which she ranks her favorite dance students (top of the pyramid) and least favorite (bottom) directly in front of the students and their mothers. These three groups of females, particularly the mothers and Abby
be appealing to the viewer if he/she finds the messages of the show to be challenging the old cultural belief that being gay is not accepted by most in America’s society. It is the first show to have main characters that are gay that is widely watched and accepted. Will is portrayed as the opposite of what society may find to be stereotypical of a gay man. Will does not speak with a lisp, he does not use flashy hand gestures, nor does he even appear to be gay. Rather, he seems to be an average
It is a given that the culture we consume shapes who we are, more specifically what we view on television shapes the content of our minds. It is also generally known that children can be easily influenced by what they see on television. Reality TV is no exception to this rule. It may appear that reality TV is a benign phenomenon but it is in fact a virus that has quickly diseased our society. More specifically, it attracts girls most mercilessly by affecting them negatively as to how they perceive
While reading about Mali in Hungry People, I noticed that the people all looked so happy – and healthy! I found it odd, considering their limited diet, consisting of mostly grains, very little meat, and a few vegetables, along with drinking only well water. I guess it is possible to survive, and in their case, thrive, on such a limited diet. In Alaska, where the Eskimos eat a mainly whale blubber, they also do fine. The addition of so many chemicals, preservatives and unknown additives to our
Because of my friend Rick Ravanello (who guest-starred on the show once last season but apparently met an untimely death), I first was made aware of the show Lethal Weapon. Initially, I was enticed to view this show on his recommendation, but from the moment I witnessed the opening scene of the pilot episode, I was hooked. And the actress who portrays Riana Murtaugh is one of the enchanting reasons for me to continue to support this entertaining, captivating, action-packed show. At the age of seventeen
all, Richard knew me. Stars Hallow, circa 2001, stands as the place I come from. At the cusp of Autumn, it all began. The necessary foliage is sprinkled purposely around the gutters. There She Goes, is playing in the background. This is Gilmore Girls, at its best. Hold back your flashbacks. Stop thinking of Dawson’s Creek, One Tree Hill, Seventh Heaven, or any other 90’s teenage crap drama. This show is so much more than a single mom, a budding teenage daughter, a controlling relationship, a Connecticut
I’m exhausted just thinking about it. It’s no wonder people look up to them so much; just look at all the amazing things they’ve done. 97.3% of people even believe that reality shows are very beneficial to us, which I completely agree with. Now for the other 2.7%, I don’t know what they’re thinking because between the lies, the cheating, the swearing, the screaming, the backstabbing, and the fights, it all teaches us great morals. We learn so many valuable lessons like how to keep a relationship
Dictionary, it is a person or thing that is idolized. It is someone who, by mention of their name, will remind people of who they are and what they are famous for. Synonyms include "representation" and "symbol." When you hear the name Lucille Ball or “I Love Lucy” you probably think of a skittish red head who had eccentric expressions and made America laugh. Lucille Desiree Ball was, and still is, an American icon because of what she represented in all four of her shows, how she changed the television
semester, I viewed a film titled Silver Linings Playbook directed by David O. Russell. The film centers around a man named Patrick “Pat” Solatano who gets released from a mental institution and moves back in with his parents. Upon returning to society, Pat meets Tiffany Maxwell, a woman struggling with her own problems, while trying to reunite with his ex wife who has a restraining order against him. Originally released in 2012, this was my second time viewing the film. This time around, I feel as
television family depicted in a sitcom. Next we meet Bart for the first time. He is in school detention, writing lines on a blackboard. These lines change each episode, making it topical and also drawing people into the show, because they want to see what Bart is going to write. In this particular episode he is writing, “I will not sell land in Florida”, a reference to the scandal involving former president Bill Clinton selling land in Florida and is an example of one of the