No-win situation

The plot in Modern Family consists of three families that are all related. One of the families consists of a Latino wife, a White husband and their son Manny. Gloria is his real mom, but Jay is his stepdad. Nowadays, divorce is a very different situation than what it was in the past during the time of Full House.It was harder to get a divorce back then because you had to have a believable reason. Nowadays getting a divorce is just as easy as getting married. Then on top of that in modern family…

Jerry Springer Show “JERRY! JERRY!” A common chant on the set of the Jerry Springer Show. What could this crowd possibly be cheering for? Maybe Jerry performs dare-devil acts, or perhaps he is a talented athlete? Unfortunately that is not the case. Jerry is mediating a fiery argument between two conflicting parties. On the outside it might seem Jerry is doing something productive and positive but sadly, Jerry assists and advocates savage ways in solving conflicts. Most of these conflicts consist…

Arrested development, and Modern Family I noticed that even though they were all filmed in different decades they all seemed to have similar settings and themes. Meaning by the of each episode it was a certain thing that the family will overcome the situation that is in front of them during that episode and be together. After reading Richard Butsch “Five Decades and Three Hundred Sitcoms about Class Gender” I can see how over the years that society viewed families in a new perspective especially…

In the early 1950s up until the late 1960s, television was a colorless form of entertainment that many traditional American families so eagerly enjoyed together. Picture this, a father and mother lovingly sitting next to each other while their rambunctious children lay sprawled out in front of a boxed television set with unquenched enthusiasm. This is the image of a traditional, nuclear family—the epicenter of American values and way of life according to the mainstream media of the time.…

Multi-Camera Analysis So what is the difference between a multi-camera and a single camera production? The difference between single camera and a multi-camera production is the use of several cameras simultaneously recording at the same time instead of just the one. Multi-camera is used to film genres such as chat shows, sports, concert and public events. Directing a Multi-camera production can be incredibility difficult; Not only does a director have to manage themselves but they also have to…

Today, I watched the pilot episode of Modern Family. I’d never watched the show before, but assumed it might provide some interesting gender roles and non conformities. Unfortunately, I was disappointed by the typical nuclear family portrayals and gender-role stereotypes that I’ve seen on most other family sitcoms. Let’s start with the Dunphy’s. Phil is the wage-earner of the family. He seems fun-loving and a bit goofy. I suspect that his wife, Claire spends as much time policing him as their…

Anziz Ansari plays Dev. Dev is an Indian American actor who is struggling with difficulties in an industry that racism still exists. Anziz Ansari himself is also an Indian American actor. He did his good job illustrating his on-screen character, in an honest, touchy and hilarious way. Back to this character Dev, as an Indian-American, he starts to acknowledge that the society he is living in is full of issues. The issue of race is described in the most realistic and diverse way. For example,…

Although television (TV) was brought to the United States (US) in the 1950s, it did not become popular with the US public until the post World War II (WWII) era. This was from a variety of factors ranging from the popularity of radio and the cost of owning the technology. Importantly, in the early years of television, wide spread use of animation in TV shows did not exist. By 1960 however, Hanna-Barbara, a television animation studio, began to gain notoriety in the growing media market.…

This literature review explores television sitcom genre of the situation comedy or sitcom. It will look at the changes in style and sensibility since the 1950s, how it has evolved and also how it has stayed the same. It can be comfortably stated that the sitcom is ‘arguably the most durable genre’ on television (Edgerton and Ross, 2008, p9). Although there are arguments about the variations between different particular sitcoms themselves, Brett Mills (Mills, 2012) gives an example of a…

Another 1970s show that was popular and was the longest-running sitcom in the history of television was The Jeffersons. The Jefferson family owned a chain of dry-cleaning businesses. From the help of their business, the African American family was able to “move on up” to a fancy uptown apartment. (Garrison- The Evolution) This show changed the stereotype that most Americans had that all African Americans were poor. The show not only proved to Americans that African Americans can be successful,…