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As a young boy, nothing appealed to me more than Saturday cartoons. The feeling of waking up every morning feeling excited to see what this week’s episode might bring to the table. Every individual show had its own way to express itself whether it be the action, animations/art style, or even the morals it tries to projects to the viewer. Every one of these shows gave me ideas on how to expand my imagination and not to be ashamed of embracing such characteristic. Then, this one particular Saturday morning, I got up and switched on the television to be introduced to a new fictional show that I’ve never seen before. From that day forward, because of that one fictional character, I fell in love with the television series called Dragonball.

Nintendo’s Pokemon franchise is a rare beast in a field of short-lived children’s cultures. The series, which began in the realm of handheld video games, quickly developed into one of the longest running anime television series, an ongoing series of manga volumes, feature films, music and an ever expanding realm of merchandise (McCormick, 2000). The success of Pokemon is partly attributed to its ability to target a younger demographic almost exclusively. Parents in the nineties would rush out to pick up a Pikachu themed Gameboy or the latest Pokemon game for the N64 console for their kids (Buckingham, 2007). The impact of Pokemon on children as a whole is significant. This research will explore the impacts of Pokemon fandom on children by focusing on three different aspects: 1) the impact among children; 2) the impact between children and parents, and; 3) the impact between children and society. For the purpose of this research, we will only investigate the impacts on children between seven to twelve years old in the nineties.

The corpus to be analyzed consists of the most controversial episodes of an internationally popular and long-running adult animation show called Family Guy. This show represents cultural attitudes and embodies how the youth of today see themselves and others, as well as influencing viewers. Some messages in this popular show, and others like it, underscore prejudices and racist attitudes in our society, showcasing the discrimination that minorities and some ethnicities face. Furthermore, these shows actually serve to strengthen existing prejudices, increasing these attitudes in viewers.

Modern day television in household has become its own culture. Television holds a constant presence in American households and is forever changing, and visually keeps our attention. Television can be beneficial in the aspect that it has given viewers different attitudes by viewing different cultural backgrounds that can be presented on televisions. For example, this paper will be addressing the sitcom American Dad, American Dad is an adult animated sitcom, which focuses on a modern American family. The main character Stan Smith and his family who face at times core issues of a family. The comedy and farce overshadow the serious messages being conveyed. The stereotypical messages are often relatable in family households in an absurd way. American Dad is fantasying to watch because the visual elements and the real-world issues that are being addressed can heavily impact American society. American Dad depicts American family culture, because traditional families see norms being depicted on the show, it incorporates current trends, and society often depicts aspects from the

Stereotypes can hinder the way we look at overall social experience of watching a film, and stereotypes of these ethnic groups, or races can affect the way we look at stereotypes within the commercial world. The overall main idea in this article, lies within the concept of, the way we are impacted as a society due to television and stereotypes. And it is up to us to associate with the culture and realize the differences of race, and ethnic groups of people around the world.

In conclusion, broad review of rough TV by kids can possibly bring about more noteworthy forcefulness. Youngsters who view programs in which savagery is extremely sensible, every now and again rehashed, remunerated, celebrated, defended, or unpunished, will probably mimic what they see. This is because of their failure to recognize dream and genuine living, and their powerlessness to completely separate in the middle of good and bad. Numerous studies affirm the connection between the broad survey of TV savagery and negative behavioral and social ramifications. Is the measure of savagery persuasive, as well as the connection and connections depicted through scenes of brutality may have genuine effects on the viewers? Through characterizing the

Anime was just the medium in which these shows were created, not necessarily a genre as a whole, (ANN). The Japanese produced more “adult” content shows, where in characters would often have vices to give them a more relatable feeling, (Gorica, 2007). Adult language, androgyny, and smut was included

Moving onto gender roles and ideas, these characteristics in genders are needed in any sort of story to suit the values and attitudes of the people of that time. Gender stereotypes are a major piece to the puzzle of a film. Women are generally seen as less dominant, pushovers, the cares of everyone and that they have no independence. Whist men are seen as the more dominant, masculine, heroes, brave and courageous. This is across all genres of movies, the girl is the damsel in distress and the boy ends up saving her at the end of it.

For this paper, I am going to be discussing gender in the institution of films. Specifically, I am going to be discussing femininity in coming of age films. I am going to discuss how gender is represented in coming of age films in regards to femininity. Coming of age movies set an expectation for teens and young adults it lays out what they should fear and what they should thrive to be in order to transition to adulthood successfully. The media defines cultural and gender norms that are often very stereotypical (). The cultivation theory suggests that exposure to stereotypes in the media can lead to adopting these beliefs in their real lives (Giaccardi et al., 2016). In the media, masculinity is often portrayed as aggression, power, dominance,

Researchers would identify the stereotypes that various animated Disney films would present by using the scientific method we discussed about in Chapter 2. The article was sectioned in the order of the scientific method. The finders would review the literature, use a method, configure the results, and last they would discuss what they have observed. Thirty-four Disney animated movies were conducted in the analysis. Short films and computer

With the extended research on childhood development, comes the different branches of developmental theories, where each theory focuses on different childhood milestones to define how it effects development. In Merskin’s article, Race and Gender Representations in Advertising in Cable Cartoon Programming, she focuses on the social learning theory to explain how perceptions of race develop in childhood. In Merskin’s research, television shows in the Turner Cartoon Network were examined to survey the samples of race and gender depiction in all shows to later calculate which gender and race overpowered throughout the network and if it had an effect on the viewers. The social learning theory states that children learn through observation, meaning that since a young age, children learn about race through the perception of self and what they observe from others. This theory also states that the childhood stage works as a foundation, where children start to construct stereotypes, which they will then carry on through their adulthood. Children will first observe their parents and peers and take note on how they interact with people of their same skin color and those different than them, and then children will mimic and reinforce those interactions as they grow older. The social learning theory

This article examines influence of cultural globalization within the United States in the 1970s and 1980s based on its popularity. The first half focuses on Animes from that time period, describing characteristics that was both Japanese and contained Western racial and gender hierarchies, letting it be accepted

Anime, as a type of animation originated from Japan and expanded to the whole world, offers audience ranging from elementary students to adults with high quality pictures, detailed plots, complicated worldview settings and complete character designs. Unlike cartoon that is often related to colorful animals, simple plots and low frame rates, anime is not exclusively for children. It contains as many genres as movie has, and some of the anime are produced with the help of 3D computer graphics to express highly accurate and realistic movements. The estimate market size of anime hit 1.825 trillion yen (16.7 billion USD) in 2016, according to The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA). It is such an influential type of online entertainment with new technology and relatively younger audience that it would be a perfect media to gaze into how language used in anime interacts with traditional Japanese culture and how it reflects current gender relationships and gender stereotypes in pop culture during modern days. This article will examine the use of tentative language (hedges, intensifiers, tag questions) in same-gender anime and mixed-gender anime to determine the influence of gender group on tentative speech and possible patterns for how male and female characters are portrayed in anime during interactions based on different gender settings.

This study will help determine or decide whether watching anime has neither more positive effects nor negative effects especially to children and students. This study will also give a bird’s eye view of how will anime affect person habits or attitude.

My essay will include taking four critical concepts of media, explaining and further dissecting it’s theories and then applying them to my chosen media text – anime series Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya). The four critical concepts will consist of narration, industries and global distribution, fandom and representation.