American television films

An Analysis of Obsession on the Knowledge of the Others’ Private Lives in John Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio” The desire of discovering the others’ secrets is part of human nature, but it becomes a problem if it is too excessive. “The Enormous Radio,” by John Cheever, is a simple tale which can be interpreted as a lesson of life. The story focuses on Irene, a middle-class woman, who enjoys listening to the music on the radio. She is obsessed by the new radio which allows her to eavesdrop on…

Ever since television came about in the late 1940s, the way people view the world has changed (“Has Television Reshaped Politics?”). As Frank Stanton, the president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, said: “Not even the sky is the limit.” (“Has Television Reshaped Politics?”). Television has changed politics a great deal. The way the people get to know the candidates and their policies have totally changed. The real question is has it changed for better or worse? Television has taken some of…

Phil873 | Tuesday, 06th October 2015, 9:49 am | I hardly ever watch TV until there is a good movie because I hate this 15 minutes advertisement after every 30 minutes. Therefore, I decided to go for radio and internet. To be honest I am only listening to the radio when eating my breakfast or lunch. But once I hear something strange, I cannot believe, I start my laptop and google the thing to be sure that the media did not lied to me. There are many ways how the media manipulates us and I…

Radio’s dad died a while back Coach Jones had found out from Radio’s mother. The coach also finds out that Radio’s real name is James Robert Kennedy. Radio ends up not being allowed to get on the bus with the football team to travel to the game. The last football game for the season, Radio gets to keep the game ball. Frank (coach’s “friend”) calls Radio a distraction on the sidelines during a football game and it offends the coach. The school board assumes Radio is a distraction in a classroom…

There is concern among parents and researchers that children exposed to television absorb the social gender implications represented within the television programming. Children between the ages 2 – 11 years, on average, spend more time watching television than they typically spend in any other activity besides school and sleep. The amount of time spent in front of a television screen provides enough evidence to call television one of the dominant microsystems in a child’s life that both informs…

Leave it to Beaver vs. Last Man Standing: A Compare and Contrast The structure and topic selected for this paper is a compare and contrast of two family sitcoms, “Leave it to Beaver”, from the 1950’s, and “Last Man Standing”, from present day. Throughout this paper we will compare the similarities and differences in the plot of the shows, the values they present, the structure of the families, and the roles they play. In addition, we will determine application of the sociological concepts of…

The WB network was launched on January 11, 1995 with an episode of The Wayans’s Bros as its first program. Michigan J. Frog appeared as WB's official mascot until 2005. The networks first programs were mostly sitcoms targeted at an African American audience with shows such as 1. The Wayans’s Bros 2. The Parent 'Hood & 3. Sister Sister. Also, several series during first five years were also targeted at families with shows such as Unhappily Ever After. Many of the new shows added like Kirk did not…

drama, thriller, television series Braking Bad has been awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama series, Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series and several more awards in 2014. I recently begin watching Braking Bad and I am obsessed with this Television series. The director Vince Gilligan and editing team of the television series have me bowing down like if they were goddesses. The Television series Braking…

An additional TV show that has hit the top feminist shows according to views today is Orange is the New Black. Piper Chapman is a public relations executive with a career and a fiancé when her past suddenly catches up with her. In her mid-30s she is sentenced to spend time in a minimum-security women's prison in Connecticut for her association with a drug runner ten years earlier. Forced to use an orange prison suit, Chapman makes her way through the corrections system and adjusts to life behind…

In the article, “Repeated Exposure to Media Violence Is Associated with Diminished Response in an Inhibitory Frontolimbic Network” Hirsch, Grinband, and Kelly discuss the effects of violent media towards cortical functioning. The hypothesis tested was that showing short violent video clips would trigger an aggressive behavior compared to neutral clips. Hirsch and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging to find the effects of being exposed to violent media. There were 14…