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Modern Day Television: The Death of Cinema? In his essay "Story or Spectacle? Why Television Is Better Than the Movies," David Charpentier argues as the title states "Television is Better Than the Movies." Charpentier does this by comparing the two mediums with plot and character development. He argues television develops these better than movies with their one key advantage: time. This is simply irrefutable and film has yet to produce anything similar to modern television dramas such as Game…

There are many different ways in which the CBS hit TV- show Survivor relates to both chapter 10 of our textbook, as well as the Emotional Intelligence book. The TV show illustrates the effects of throwing together a group of people who do not know each other, and forcing them to bond and hopefully win challenges and eventually win the grand prize of a million dollars. One of the most important aspects of Survivor, and life itself, is decision making. Decision making is evident in every episode…

Reality tv is the pure act of drama, it doesn't exactly contain any reality in its shows. Usually there's a lot of editing and scripting in these shows. The producers like to keep the audience entertained. The producer also knows the audience they are targeting. Studies for the girl scout research institute have revealed that teenagers and children are the demographic for reality tv. They become easily influenced by what they watch and listen to. This can influence foul language ,negative…

(1948-1960) In the tracing of the social and historical connections of the genre many authors consider “Candid Camera” as the first reality show. Emerging as a Radio show , in 1948 this show gets its TV version followed by great popularity. The show illustrates situations in which ordinary people are found in unordinary situations with comic outcomes (E.g. Woman asks help for her car, when passersby learns that the car has no engine). The hidden cameras from many angles follow the actions, and…

A) When Reality TV Gets To Real By Victor Weimar Gade Summary of When Reality TV Gets Too Real by Jeremy W. Peters In the text When Reality TV Gets Too Real, Jeremy W. Peters discuss the ethics in not intervening in possibly unsafe situations happening on reality television. He lists up quite a few incidents, about the immoral actions and various crimes that have been taking place in different Reality programs. Some of the vaster crimes shown in the episodes are drunk driving, which have been…

The irony in reality television is that often what it represents in its programming is completely opposite to reality. Fabricated drama and larger than life personalities give us what we want in our lives, not reflecting what is our “real life”. Mike Wilson’s article ‘Life’s too short for reality TV’ appearing in ‘The Age’ on the 8th of July 2011 contends that reality television by nature is completely oppositional to what its name suggests. Wilson employs a sarcastic, contemplative and at times…

According to Social Media. Reality Tv is a big , diverse medium , of course some of it’s raunchy , some of it is ugly , obnoxious. The topic is about can our generation learn from our reality tv mistakes . Parents have to talk to their children because they get so affected with the tv show and they have to sit and talk with their teenagers . Reality Tv really reveals inappropriate behavior within your peer groups because it sometimes cause drama between you and your friends for example, the…

Kruse (2010), argues that the imaginary is not created alone through the text of TV crime dramas, but is impacted by a viewer’s subjectivity, life experiences, educations, political views, and personal fantasies. Kruse maintains that TV dramas, such as CSI, tainted by the viewer specific position within society, may provide the viewer with the justification for their world view, cause them to reflect on their lives, position, or politics, or be nothing more than mere entertainment. In Kruse’s…

and Liability Claims against the Media: As you can imagine, several lawsuits have come about insults of reality television. For example, “Graves v. Warner Bros and Williams v. ABC, brought reality television network liability into the forefront of the media.” This case came about from ABC tv show The Jenny Jones Show. One of the cast members, Jonathon Schmitz shot and killed another cast member, Scott Amedure. After Schmitz was convicted of murder, in retaliations, Amedure’s parents filed suit…

There is a fine line when discussing if reality TV is ethical. The so-called actors in these shows, while they may be transcribing their true selves to the audience, they are also followed around by cameras constantly. While I don’t know about you, if I was followed around by cameras there is great chance I won’t be able to let loose and be myself, but perhaps I am just camera shy. So, when it comes to editing reality TV programs, is it ethical to focus on the sensation? I think yes. Along with…