2000s American television series

presenter. According to Tom Dolan (2000), market research revealed that news anchors are one of the top reasons why Americans continue to watch the news on television. However, the position of the new anchor should never be taken for granted due to the fact that the broadcasters place a large amount of time and energy to deliver the news. Therefore, it is important for everyone to understand their contributions to the media industry. How would news television stations gain viewers if news…

Media Literacy and the Critical Process Reality Television shows are challenging sit coms and dramas for dominance in the television market. Certain sitcoms, dramas, and news programs might be widely popular, however; they are expensive to produce due to actors, writers, producers. Reality shows may not be as popular but they are relatively cheap to produce. Often there are no trained actors and writing and production staffs are scaled down. An example of a sitcom is ABC’s Meet the Goldberg’s…

The term television music is a term of all music that is broadcast on television. It has functioned in several different ways, reflecting the array of genres and modes of broadcasting. It has also been called as “production music,” to emphasize dramatic programs, enhance mood and narrative structure and meaning, which is similar to music’s function in films, and as a way to mark transitions within a television program and between programs. Scholarships have claimed that the function of music on…

Previous research has found that television may negatively affect the body image of young women. Tiggerman and Pickering (1996) found that these effects did not just come from the amount of television viewed, but they could also come from the appearance-focused shows. Studies have shown that body dissatisfaction can be seen in girls as young as the age six years (Dohnt & Tiggemann, 2006; Tiggemann & Wilson-Barrett, 1998). This is what led researchers to come to the conclusion that the amount of…

review will be investigating is the effect of television violence on children. Therefore, the quest is to indicate whether television violence is detrimental to children, the questions of inquiry are: 1) What is the effect of TV violence on children’s aggression, 2) What is children’s emotional reaction to television violence? In a study by Pinto de Mota Matos, Alves Ferreira, and Haase (2012), the role identification of children with violent television heroes, perceived reality in media…

Network debuted a new reality TV series called Keeping up with the Kardashians. Produced by American Idol host Ryan Seacrest, the show follows the lives of Kim, her sisters, her brother Robert Jr., Bruce and Kris Jenner, and the couple's two young daughters, Kendall and Kylie. In one memorable episode from the first…

Much of the credit for that can go to Alison Bechdel, an American cartoonist who invented the Bechdel test, an indicator of gender bias in films. It first appeared in the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For in 1985. Bechdel credited the idea to a friend, Liz Wallace, to the writings of Virginia Woolf. The Bechdel…

Michelle Alexander wrote a book called The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Ages of Colorblindness. In this book she argues that the American system of mass incarceration is the New Jim Crow. To get started we need to understand what the original Jim Crow was. The original Jim Crow refers to a series of racist laws that discriminate against African Americans. Even though these laws were from 1876 and 1965 when slavery was the norm, this book gives us an idea of how discrimination is still…

societies,” (62) this must have been true for past generations but a lot of time has passed since then, which renders this statement false. On the other hand, a statement that still seems relevant comes from Kimberly Goyette and Yu Xie “distinct Asian American groups have higher educational expectations than do…

(Voodoo or Vodou) magic (Christie 2011, p. 10; Farghaly 2014, p. 8; Platts 2013, p. 549). It is a product of the supernatural, combined with a vague applied science of pharmacology (Farghaly 2014, p. 9). Here, we shall examine the cinematic (North American) version of zombie which is vastly different from its Haitian predecessor. From its humble beginning as a subculture confined to cult classic movies, to its eventual branching out to video games and graphic novels. As well as how the…