American television sitcoms

The influence the media has on love and relationships can be one of the strongest influences a person can face. The media can affect how an individual views love and sex, whether it be through music and movies or pornography. Having a relationship is something men and women think about constantly; it can be the case of the young girl looking for prince charming or the college guy who just wants a one-night stand. The affect the media has on society is astonishing; the media is constantly telling…

Television and society are a two sided mirror. TV is influenced by society and influences society simultaneously. One of television’s favorite sitcoms, Friends, is an example of how this mirror interacts. Six adults in their mid-twenties are living in New York in close proximity of each other. This iconic 90s television sitcom has distinct impacts on society and television today. Some of these include the deconstruction of family dynamics, coffee shop aesthetics, and a different brand of sitcoms…

Situation comedies, better known as sitcoms, have been around for many years and are usually well liked by a broad spectrum of people. Sitcoms involve a group of characters for multiple episodes and/or series depending on the quality of the certain show. While they are not like reality television of today, they are different than shows that used to come on television such as Bonanza and the Dukes of Hazard. Sitcoms are extremely comedy based which is very different than the western actions that…

Analysis: American Horror Story and the Twilight Zone Linh Hua Anderson University Televisions came to the United States during the late 1940s, but they did not officially bloom until the 1950s. They were able to dominate Americans due to their diversity of programs: variety shows, anthology shows, sitcom shows, etc. In the current time, when one mentions anthology, people would immediately think about The Twilight Zone, which runs in the late fifties and sixties, and American…

Dr Cliff Huxtable became a popular name in the early 1980s as the character on a television sitcom, The Cosby Show. The show was the first of its kind and showed that not all black homes were broken and unstable. The man behind the character was Bill Cosby; a comedian, entrepreneur, beloved mentor and actor. Cosby slowly began shedding this image when in 2005; sexual assault allegations were made against him. A civil lawsuit filed by Andrea Constand in 2005, along with a detailed account of how…

Television has proved to be an important factor in representing the identities of a vast and diverse America. As a powerful medium, television functioned as a way to observe people of different color, race, and ethnicity. The impact of the medium in representing a certain race has had a powerful influence on one’s attitude towards another person based on these depictions as seen on TV. More often than not, TV’s portrayals of the subordinate group in the United States had not been ideal compared…

This article, Television Beyond the Networks, offers case studies on first-run scripted syndicated programs that expresses a national audience through syndication in the United States during the 1970s. Even though certain programs, Rosen’s Story Theatre and Mary Hartman for example, despised the efforts to operate outside the networks distribution circuits, these series faced challenges that a range factors in the dominance of the network era. The body of television programming created and…

If a movie or television show in today’s society were to bash a certain race, desecrate women, or outwardly reject the LGBT community, would it gain a positive response? Of course not, this is 2016! In order for popular culture outlets to appeal to modern viewers, the content must remain current; from movies to television shows, society expects them to keep up with the times. Therefore, popular culture provides a reflection of changing attitudes regarding a multitude of social constructs. Where…

The Mindy Project premiered on September 25, 2012 on FOX, airing alongside a mixture of new programs The Mob Doctor, Touch, Ben and Kate, and recurring programs, Raising Hope, New Girl, The X Factor, Fringe, American Idol, and Glee. The workplace sitcom, created by lead actress, Mindy Kaling, still riding high on the success from The Office, was paired with FOX’s established hit, New Girl, on Tuesday nights. It was considered one of the most promising comedies of the season despite that fact…

between what is fed to the American culture through television and how those ideas are reflected in today’s society. Additionally, it will highlight how television’s departure from scripted television aided in the dissipation of the values of American families. This essay will give an overview of how television has refocused the ideas and goals of the family unit by using television to plant false expectations of normal everyday life. It will argue the point that reality television, which is the…