The New Black

Orange is the new black - Introduction to popular culture Amber Miller 15905232 Orange Is the New Black debuted in early 2013 and has since been a highly favoured television title on the online streaming service, Netflix. Orange Is the New Black features a mainly female cast, creating a female centred comedy drama, within the cast there is a large amount of diversity, causing many gender stereotypes and genre conventions to be broken. Orange Is the New Black has characters that represent many different

to see exactly how this era’s civil rights movement became an understudy for comparison to the civil rights movements by black Americans during the time span of 1955-1968. Us as African Americans need to support the gay civil rights movements of today because we should understand and realize the struggles we went through and help this nation become more equal. Gay is the new black in America, not all aspects of the two relate such as the level of violence endured by the African Americans as they fought

Bitter is the New Black I chose to read the first in a series of memoirs authored by Jen Lancaster, Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a condescending, egomaniacal, self-centered smart-ass, or why you should never carry a Prada Bag to the unemployment office. The memoir goes into details about how her life drastically changed after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. The largest change being that she was terminated from her place of work, making her lavish way of living no longer obtainable

Orange is the New Black Orange is the New Black is a television series that debuted on the online streaming service Netflix in 2013. This show is based on the memoir, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, written by Piper Kerman about her time in a minimum security prison. She was convicted of transporting a suitcase full of drug money ten years prior and sentenced to 15 months in a Penitentiary in upstate New York. The show chronicles her life in the prison and the relationships

From the very start of “Orange is the New Black”, creator Jenji Kohan has made it clear that gender identity and sexuality will feel like a normality in this series. Viewers are to forget what gender inequality is and see these characters as everyday people. Kohan breaks the rules of traditional “male gaze” and phallocentric cinema. These characters are not your typical females. Kohan flips the switch by setting this series in a women’s correctional facility. Up until the last few centuries, female

prison from a scrap heap to a repair shop.’ - Thomas Mott Osborne, warden of New York’s Sing Sing Prison (1913). Over the past decade, criminal justice reform has become an increasingly controversial political topic as the prison population rises higher and higher--it has reportedly quintupled from 1980 to 2009; from 320,000 inmates to 1.62 million, according to a professor of Fordham law school. Orange is the New Black, a memoir by Piper Kerman about her individual experience in a women’s prison

Media Analysis: Orange is The New Black Shelby McCleery and Stephanie Reynolds Dr. Carla Cesaroni Michael Perkins University of Ontario Institute of Technology Faculty of Social Science and Humanities Punishment and Society: SSCI 3060U – 002 Friday, November 28, 2014 Synopsis of Orange is The New Black Orange is The New Black is a new and innovative series aired on Netflix that follows the life of Piper Chapman, played by Taylor Schilling. Chapman was sentenced to fifteen months and

“Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women´s Prison” by Piper Kerman is a book about woman´s experience in a prison with its problems, inside hierarchical system and overcoming challenges after discharge. It talks about the upbringing of many Americans who are disadvantaged from the start, how race, orientation, class, and gender are major factors of these women’s lives, inside prison and out. Along with age and religion, all these factors are brought into relief, as characters struggle against

Media Critic: Orange is the New Black Television revolutionizes the way people see themselves and the world around them. It has made a significant impact in society whether it is for better or worst. Writer Jess C. Scott said “People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.” This simplifies the assertion that television has a major influence on people’s behavior, actions, and thoughts. So when Orange is the New Black a popular, dramedy about women’s prison elevated it caused waves in the media. It changed

The artifact I have chosen to analyze is the following scene from the show “Orange is the New Black” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtAaXM1GAgw). This scene displays an interaction between two prisoners and friends, Poussey and Taystee. Poussey is furious with Taystee for ending up back in prison after being released. Taystee attempts to explain herself by claiming that prison is easier than attempting to live a normal life after prison. Poussey smacks Taystee and angrily states that her mom passed