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- 191: Lucille Ball
- ... comedienne, but also a superb businesswoman, an excellent role model, and has won numerous awards. Lucille Ball's major contribution has been as a comedienne. Not only was she the star of the world renowned television show, I Love Lucy, but she has also performed on radio, in films, and even on Broadway. Ball had an extraordinary personality. "In short, Lucille Ball's unique brand of wacky physical comedy made her the queen of TV. . ." (Dziemianowicz 54). Her hit television show, I Love Lucy, was one of the most watched television shows of all time. The success of I Love Lucy was due mostly to Ball's comic brilliance (Zoglin 188). "With near perfect timing, and a genius for sightgags, red-haired Ball careened through ...
- 192: Radio - Making Waves In America
- ... enabled modern style speakers to be used to translate electrical impulses and currents into sound. The development of radio throughout the 20th century has led to many new and wonderful uses and products. These include: television, radar, the Global Positioning System of satellites, remote-control, cellular mobile telephones, cordless telephones, and commercial and private satellite communications. The cost of radio devices has also changed American society. Modern radio receivers for purely ... majority of the population has increased use of radio devices, raising awareness of local, national, and global news. Unfortunately, this increased use also created a new part of society which is lazy and ÒaddictedÓ to television in many cases. Radio is now a very widely used technology. Almost everyone uses it to communicate and to get news. Through both television and public radio news people are able to find out about things going on all over the world. Cellular phones, Citizen Band (CB) radios, two-way radios (ÒWalkie-TalkiesÓ), satellite phones, and cordless phones ...
- 193: Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
- ... moved about. In recent years, equipment, lighting, and film have all been improved, but the processes involved remain essentially the same. RICHARD FLOBERG Bibliography Bibliography: Fielding, Raymond, ed., A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television (1967); Happe, I. Bernard, Basic Motion Picture Technology, 2d ed. (1975); Malkiewicz, J. Kris, and Rogers, Robert E., Cinematography (1973); Wheeler, Leslie J., Principles of Cinematography, 4th ed. (1973). film: -------------------------------- film, history of -------------------------------- The history ... or discriminatory distribution practices. At the same time, movie attendance started a steady decline; the film industry's gross revenues fell every year from 1947 to 1963. The most obvious cause was the rise of TELEVISION, as more and more Americans each year stayed home to watch the entertainment they could get most comfortably and inexpensively. In addition, European quotas against American films bit into Hollywood's foreign revenues.^While major ... not equivalent to speech. Although the ruling permitted more freedom of expression in films, it also provoked public boycotts and repeated legal tests of the definition of obscenity.^Hollywood attempted to counter the effects of television with a series of technological gimmicks in the early 1950s: 3-D, Cinerama, and Cinemascope. The industry converted almost exclusively to color filming during the decade, aided by the cheapness and flexibility of the ...
- 194: Euthanasia And Suicide
- ... attention on physician-assisted suicide by helping gravely ill people kill themselves. The state or Oregon permits physician assisted suicide. But Kevorkian himself violated the bounds of law when he committed active euthanasia on national television. He was found guilty of second degree murder in March of 1999. However, the issues he raised will continue to be debated for years to come. As of July 1998, assisted suicide is only legal ... olds, and showed that those that did not have mental disorders, such as depression, had fewer death wishes, or thoughts of taking ones life, than those with mental disorders.(Skoog et al.) The role of television and suicide is discussed in the article \\"Television and teen suicide: More than a coincidence?.\\" The article says that for every 100,000 Americans, the number of households with televisions, and the number of families with more than one television set all ...
- 195: Wrestling 2
- Professional wrestling programs are among the most popular shows on television; they often represent six out of the ten top-rated cable shows each week. In addition to boosting ratings, the World Wrestling Federation's (WWF) increased emphasis on violence, raw language and sexual suggestion has made it controversial. Even though the televised events the WWF chooses to put on television may be disputed; the broadcasts should still be considered acceptable on television today. Although the WWF is often scrutinized for it's content, it is no different then any daytime soap operas which are still considered acceptable. Many wrestling events today go to the extreme. In ...
- 196: Transcendentalism
- ... 1800's, the lack of bonding with nature, and the fast paced speed at which everything has advanced to. With simplicity being the main transcendentalist idea, Thoreau would greatly criticize such advanced things as, the television or the computer. A transcendentalist would believe in the preservance of earth and to take life slow also. Since the 19th century, society has changed; it has seen many technological advances, is currently moving at ... prevents us from adding the personal touch to short letters. The handwritten letter is much more personal and shows your respect for the person receiving the letter. While the computer can be a nuisance, the television also has its share of frustrations. Suppose you just got comfortable on the couch, and you change the want to change the channel with the remote. Now, one of two things can happen; it works or it doesn't. If it does not work, you will have to get up every time you want to change th e channel or adjust the volume. Not only does the television have the risk of breaking, it also control over people. People frequently make their daily schedule around their favorite television show so they can see it. We have grown accustom to having a television ...
- 197: Body Image
- ... associates (1994) reported that 70% of the teenage women who regularly read fashion magazines considered the magazines an important source of beauty and fitness information. The mass marketing of body images through print media and television advertising has been well documented as a powerful force in creating the 90’s perception of the tall, thin, and toned ideal for women and the medium-sized, muscular ideal for men (Rabak-Wagener, Eickhoff ... negatively (Hamilton & Waller, 1993), which, in turn, leads to an increase in low self esteem, depression, and eating disorder symptoms (Irving, 1990, Stice & Shaw, 1994). Different vehicles of media have been researched, with magazines and television seeming to be the most widely studied and film close behind. A study of Hollywood films by Smith, McIntosh, and Bazzini (1999) established that attractive characters were portrayed more favorably than unattractive characters in such dimensions as friendliness and intelligence and that exposure to highly stereotyped films can elicit stronger favoritism towards the ideal stereotypes in real life situations. In using television and magazine advertising research has shown that a person’s body image is elastic and can fluctuate in response to media content that focuses on the presentation of the ideal body shape (Myers & Biocca). ...
- 198: The Tv Era
- ... washing machine and finally, TV. The TV industry started its development with the invention of the first TV set, somewhere in the early 1950 s, and has never stopped growing since. Discussion whether or not television is a positive part of modern life, might seem arguable from several different viewpoints. Positively or not, the television has affected the life of almost every human being on the Earth First of all, people who lived before the television era could not hear the latest news at any time. The only source of news was the papers. However, without any significant technology involved, the newspapers could only report on the local events. On ...
- 199: The Simpsons - A Cartoon Portr
- ... of Bart Simpson is a bad role model and said that it was disgrace that the district would honor the name of Bart's school. The school board although initially unaware of the name's television counterpart, held firm. Greenwood now has an elementary school named "Springfield." The Simpsons, a constant festival of disrespect, has graced television (if "graced" is a word that can ever be applied to the cartoon family) and the United States with a greater impact than most television series ever created. No wonder such a debate has arisen around the characters, their lives, and, most importantly, their attitudes. Artist-cartoonist-writer Matt Groening's animated family began life as disruptive little drawings ...
- 200: Censorship
- Censorsip Censorship is a variety of things from yelling ‘fire’ in a crowded theater to showing sexual intercourse on television. These things aren’t all either, there are millions of things we use or see every day that are censored for a reason. The reason can be many but the three most important reasons are ... we would live in a world so dirty and irresponsible so indecent and shameful that it could not exist. We pretty much ignore the growth in violence and sexual abuse in our movies and on television. Have they gone away? According to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, by the time an average child leaves high school, he or she will have watched the happening of 18,000 murders on television. Prime time says the National Coalition on Television Violence, is filled with degrading sexual material and incidents ‘where violence is strongly glamorized or used to excite.’ There have been 85 major studies of the ...
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