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- 131: Youth Violence
- ... Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Brandon Centerwall states, every violent act is the result of an array of forces coming together--poverty, crime, alcohol and drug abuse, stress--of which childhood exposure to television is just one, (18). Nevertheless, the evidence indicates that if, hypothetically, television technology had never been developed, there would be ten thousand fewer homicides each year in the United States, seventy thousand fewer rapes, and seven-hundred thousand fewer injurious assaults. Dr. Centerwall also notes in his article that as many as 1/3 of the young male prisoners convicted of violent crime say they were consciously imitating techniques they learned from television (18). Another statistic that has been linked to the introduction of television is the fact that fifteen years after the introduction of TV, homicides, rapes and assaults doubled in the United States. In 1982 ...
- 132: TV Violence and Children
- TV Violence and Children Children from the ages 6-11 spend more time watching television than they do in the classroom. The level of violence that they see on prime time television is about five violent acts per hour and the level of violence on Saturday that includes cartoons morning programming is about 20 to 25 violent acts per hour. At this rate, the average American child will see 8,000 murders before they finish elementary school! As a child sits in front of baby-sitting television, her eyes are glued to the viewing of shoot em' up rip em' up kind of entertainment. We have to remember that the entertainment media plays an extremely powerful role in the formation of ...
- 133: The Use And Abuse The American Language
- ... many human beings use and abuse the American language. The lack of language may be a result of slang and new words or expression, but slang is not the danger of language. The danger is television. According to the essay television makes language subordinate. With the entertainment of television, people enjoy watching the images shown on screen and limit the idea of reading. The lack of language also is a result of abusing it. People want to conceal reality, using public words to ...
- 134: Simpsons 4
- ... terms, these transformations may be seen in the shift from national to global media." The Simpsons can be seen as both a remarkable piece of global culture and as a hugely successful piece of global television. (One need only look on an Internet search engine to discover that there are literally millions of Simpsons fan-sites around the world.). The Simpsons themselves are a simple family in a small town in ... of the local bar). There are a number of reasons why we cannot simply view The Simpsons as a cartoon like any other. The rules and conventions that it follows are far more those of television or cinema than those of animation. The humour within The Simpsons exists on many different levels ranging from the obvious to the subtle, from the literary to the movie reference, and beyond. But most importantly we must consider the show's ability to make significant social comment, on general issues of culture and society, but more specifically on television, film and media, and on audience viewing and acceptance of these media. Traditionally, cartoons have been action driven and animation. Aside from the use of cameras to create the visual illusion of depth (Walt ...
- 135: Jay vs. Dave: Battle of the Late Night Television
- Jay vs. Dave: Battle of the Late Night Television “Ladies and gentlemen let’s get ready to rumble. Tonight’s matchup will be between Dave “gap tooth” Letterman and Jay “have you seen my chin” Leno. Weighing in at just under 150 lb.. and ... In Jay’s corner tonight we have Branford Marseilles and the “Tonight Show” band.” Tonight’s matchup showcases a bitter rivalry between two late night talk show hosts. Each week these gentlemen square off on television, Dave on CBS, and Jay on NBC. The competition to see who can be the first one to pluck today’s new shining star from the top of the Hollywood Christmas tree. The Sammy Sosa ... and Howard being on CBS, and Jay Being on NBC. his interview is dragging on. We will be right back with the band. One more stupid comment from Paul Shaeffer and I’m turning the television off and going to bed. What time is it anyway? With all these funny bits, I must have been hysterically laughing and lost track of time. Dave is getting risky these days, pu ing ...
- 136: Stereotyping In Movies
- ... t just go out and kill thousands of people for no reason. The movie shows Arabs as capable of destruction, sending out a negative stereotypical message to viewers that all Arabs are capable of this. Television has become American society’s cultural and spiritual leader. Overlooking its obvious entertainment based purpose, People have let the television control and dictate their lives. While watching the movie, viewers allow themselves to let stereotypes blur their vision and corrupt their imagination. People tend to trust what they are watching. They feel that television speaks the total truth, so therefore when they see Arabs portrayed as terrorists on television their opinions of Arabs tend to be swayed. This is true whether the viewer is Arab or non-Arab, ...
- 137: False Advertising
- False Advertising Nowadays television and the advertising displayed in it is a part of everyday life in most households. What many people do not know is that television in many ways is bad. Numerous articles have been written on this. Many surveys and books have been written on this subject as well. The ads in television are what are especially bad. Some television ads are misleading. Countless articles have been written on false advertising on television. Most of these articles target specific instances of fraudulent behavior, but some do address ...
- 138: Meet the Simpsons
- ... exactly "family" means has changed with time. Usually, what constitutes making up a family is relative to a specific culture, but as always, there are exceptions to the rule. Ever since the golden age of television had sprung upon American culture, television has tried to mimic the "ideal" American family through it's programming. Even as early as the 1950's, television producers made programming that would represent what exactly the ideal American family was. Take for example the show "Leave It to Beaver". While I am not going to go in detail about each character, ...
- 139: Violence on Television
- Violence on Television Violence on TV is similar in my eyes to a good summary in the back of the book that will make you want to read the intire story. Violence has changed alot in a way ... people have been around since the beginnings of humanity but people have been afraid to talk about these issues as if one is afraid to speak to someone for the first time. I believe that television has helped our society alot more than it is normally given credit for. For example in my grandparent's generation it would have been a sin to talk about sex. These day we have a ...
- 140: Television Soaps: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Representation
- Television Soaps: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Representation Soaps but more importantly music videos can be said to interrogate the cultural construction of gender and representations of identity. The video suggests a set of images ... singer, who has been labelled ‘Our Lady of MTV', has an amazing video appeal due to her play with gender and identity. No other single artist has produced as many mixed images as she has. Television soaps tend not to interrogate the construction of gender and the representation of identity. They do not seem to cross any boundaries. People watch soaps to relax and somehow relate, so if they were to ...
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