Essay The Role of the Audiences in Culture

The Active Audience In modern communication, there are various types of culture. The most widely known of these types is pop culture. Pop Culture in short, is every meme, perspective, image and phenomena that are within the mainstream of a culture which has created an active audience. This active audience has a role in pop culture as to how it creates and defines music, movies and race in popular culture. In a culture, there will always be an active audience in the music industry. In the article

empower and educate audiences to evoke change. Chasing the Lolly Man, is a one man show devised by Mark Sheppard and directed by Liz Skitch. The performance utilises the powerful medium of Brechtian theatre in order to portray dramatic meaning. Throughout the performance Sheppard utilises Brechtian theatre conventions to discuss issues surrounding aboriginal identity and culture. The successful use of Brechtian conventions along with the dramatic elements enables the audience to become aware of the

Feminism and Mad Max: Fury Road George Miller’s action packed film Mad Max: Fury Road, shines a new light on the role of women in contemporary culture. Mad Max takes place in what is called the “The Citadel”, a post apocalyptic wasteland, where an infamous tyrant by the name of Immortan Joe rules all women and war boys as servants. As the fourth installment in the Mad Max trilogy and an honorable rating of 8.1/10 (Imbd.com), what really makes the film one of a kind is that the movie, usually lead

Minorities shadow behind White culture • When shown on TV, people of color are in the background and are shown in stereotypical characters • Whites viewed as ideal audiences, hence television shows with Whites as main leads • African American celebrities are athletes that appear in only sporting advertisement • Television and advertisements seem to ignore or “deflect” racial issues • Even in children, White’s dominate over minority races and participate in many lead roles in advertisement Important

almost synonymous with United State culture. Typical has become a “typical” word and certainly has become a harsh and heavy one in today’s society and culture. We use typical objects and devices, we do typical activities, and we watch typical phenomena. Our society today seems to lack creativity and is stuck in a rut of sameness and stereotypes. Steven Craig writes, in his published essay Men’s Men and Women’s Women, about exactly how and why American culture has become “typical” in regards to the

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

its role in the American experience. His writings explain how this genre of cuisine has evolved and transformed as it has spread geographically throughout the United States. Growing up in Orange County California with two Hispanic parents, Arellano experienced firsthand the transformation of traditional Mexican dishes into the tex-mex that most American families are familiar with today. The online news site, Reason Magazine, originally published this article to accommodate to an audience of readers

My thought process when collecting my magazine ads was that I wanted to showcase the various age groups of each gender. Many magazines have a specific audience in mind meaning that magazines aimed towards a young teen would not be as explicit as a magazine aimed towards a grown woman even though they might both contain the same message. I collected samples from three prominent magazines for females: J-14 (age range 8-14), Seventeen (age range 10-21), and Cosmopolitan (age range 18-34). I also repeated

all times. It’s reach spreads across generations and countries. At first glance Rocky Horror, as it is commonly referred to, can seem like a crude movie that’s sole purpose is to shock the audience with it’s foul language and sexual content. This is not the case; Rocky Horror brings attention to the gender roles placed on women and men in society. This message is still important today because more than ever women and men feel limited in their own bodies. The opening credits identify to us who fits

to define the state of childhood? (w.180) The state of childhood is difficult to define due to the conflicting views that are held within society. As outlined in Creativity, Culture and Commerce (2015) children are considered a special audience in relation to television and media consumption. This categorisation of this audience allows childhood to be defined as a developmental stage in which youthful participants are considered both ‘vulnerable’ and ‘corruptible’. These distinctive underlying connotations