Analysis Of Transparent

Transparent is an Amazon exclusive program that focuses in on a Trans Woman, and how her family takes her news on coming “out.” The family is made up of the wealthy upper class trans mom, the middle class mother, a wealthy son in the music business, the upper-class daughter who obtained her class status via her husband, and the youngest daughter who is lower class, but still gets help from her trans mother. The way their wealth is identified is through their possessions and job descriptions, while their class is identified in how they interact with other people and how they present themselves to their peers. For example, the trans mother, Moura, class was interpreted in her personality with people, which seemed snobby, and only caring for herself, …show more content…
The incredible thing about their backgrounds is the fact that are mainly women, which goes against the generic make up of screen writers as being male. The show offers a different perspective because of this, but the fact that they are still white proves that the industry needs to expand its horizons of diversity. Within the show its self, the only characters that appear the most are white women, which is a reflection of those who write television. Still, the unprecedented reality is that the show’s culture is different and offers controversial ideas about gender, and the family dynamic. Because of this, Transparent challenges its viewers to reinvent the definition of what a middle class family looks like and how it operates within this ever changing society. For example, within one of the episodes, the family gathers around to take a family picture for a wedding. In the picture there are the two brides to be (a lesbian relationship), their children, the trans- mother and her friends. This family dynamic defies what society has taught us a family looks like; husband, wife, two or three …show more content…
The media is not a reflection of us but of what we want everyone to be. When you watch television, or movies there is always white people, and when people of color are shown in television they are over saturated caricatures that bleed out stereotypical personalities and reflect the racist attitudes within America. This enters people’s conscious whether they believe it does or not, only the third person theory is exempt from this reality. When someone is able to think critically about what they are being fed through the media are they able to protect themselves. But for those who do not think critically, they do not question, they do not have the educations to analyze what they are consuming, these are the people that cannot protect themselves from this hurt, they also perpetuate the idea of stereotypes, of this idea of white superiority. Take top grossing movies such as Avatar, which has a white saver complex written with the film, and major characters are white. Titanic, white. Jurassic World-