Adorno and Horkeimer many years ago claimed “culture today is infecting everything with sameness” (94). The Social Network and The Truman Show are films made 12 years apart focusing on different mediums one being reality television the other being social networking, yet they both contain the same ideologies regarding gender. Both films promote the same ideologies from the base of its makers to the characters within he film. Each film features and is created by white men, while women are shown as problematic and secondary. Although some scholars have claimed the integration of film and other art forms can raise the level of artistic merit, within these two films to medium chosen to focus upon was picked because of popularity, hoping to intrigue
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The themes of inside versus outside, real versus simulation and disruption versus stability. All concepts you could argue are seen in many popular reality television shows. For example in the study discussed above Survivor wise widely talked about and analyzed. These themes and binaries are all main parts of the basis of that show. Disruption and stability are always played with in reality shows, as they are played with in The Truman Show. In reality shows things get disrupted to throw the contestants off their game and make them adapt, for example in Surivior in the first couple weeks there are separate tribes which learn to go exist and remain stable, until it becomes disrupted when both tribes have to form one unit. In The Truman Show the theme of disruption works as the main plot point of the film. Exemplifying how common themes in reality shows are then implemented into the films main plot line. This could be a tactic to ensure audiences who enjoy reality television shows, would also enjoy the disruption within The Truman Show. Once again showing how pre-existing structures and themes are repackaged in the culture industry to ensure mass …show more content…
Its common knowledge that reality television isn 't made for its artistic merit, therefore we can deduct that reality shows make money which is why there are so many variations. In their own words “the truth that they are nothing but business is used as an ideology to legitimize the trash they intentionally produce”, this argument immediately draws parallels to reality television as its known as “trashy tv”. Therefore because the main premiss of The Truman Show is reality television, it’s clear that this film fits into Adorno and Horkheimer 's culture industry
The themes of inside versus outside, real versus simulation and disruption versus stability. All concepts you could argue are seen in many popular reality television shows. For example in the study discussed above Survivor wise widely talked about and analyzed. These themes and binaries are all main parts of the basis of that show. Disruption and stability are always played with in reality shows, as they are played with in The Truman Show. In reality shows things get disrupted to throw the contestants off their game and make them adapt, for example in Surivior in the first couple weeks there are separate tribes which learn to go exist and remain stable, until it becomes disrupted when both tribes have to form one unit. In The Truman Show the theme of disruption works as the main plot point of the film. Exemplifying how common themes in reality shows are then implemented into the films main plot line. This could be a tactic to ensure audiences who enjoy reality television shows, would also enjoy the disruption within The Truman Show. Once again showing how pre-existing structures and themes are repackaged in the culture industry to ensure mass …show more content…
Its common knowledge that reality television isn 't made for its artistic merit, therefore we can deduct that reality shows make money which is why there are so many variations. In their own words “the truth that they are nothing but business is used as an ideology to legitimize the trash they intentionally produce”, this argument immediately draws parallels to reality television as its known as “trashy tv”. Therefore because the main premiss of The Truman Show is reality television, it’s clear that this film fits into Adorno and Horkheimer 's culture industry