Television films

In a popular TV show “Bones”, lead character Dr. Brennan Bones, socially awkward, but brilliant anthropologist, believes that reality television show “Jersey Shore” is actually a documentary about a tribe called “Guidos”. Although she is mistaken about the genre of that show, her assumptions about their language and customs is not far off. Using the same observation methods, future anthropologists might conclude that the basic human need for entertainment hasn’t changed since gladiator games in…

the University of Pennsylvania, established a theory that suggests “long time TV viewing cultivates how viewers perceive reality.” According to this theory, “the more time people spend ‘living’ in the television world, the more likely they are to believe in the social reality presented on television.” The Bachelor, as pictured to the left, takes the idea of…

Shannon Mortimore-Smith’s article, “Audience as ‘Gamemaker’”, discusses the connection between the Hunger Games and our beloved reality television shows by proving that they both need to have sponsors and an audience that is interested in the drama to insure that “the games will go on” (159). Another connection between the real world and Collin’s novel, is established by looking at the importance…

that by taking the steps mention above it will be successful. Dowds (2014) believes that it is important to work smarter, not harder. The offering of grants and a scholarships allow me to discover that there were opportunities available to pay for my education. However, along with those opportunities were obstacles that needed to be overcome. I discovered that receiving scholarships required me to become a fulltime student. This was a problem because I am a fulltime worker, a parent and a…

The manifest destiny of television technology is real-time viewing of all the places the audience is not. It is the ideal glance into the neighbor’s kitchen window, or through the bedroom door. The entertainment corporations found a way to make televised life commerce, so now it rules the airwaves. Reality-based television is not novel, of course. Allen Funt, with his 1948 TV series Candid Camera is often recognized as reality TV’s first specialist. He actually started a year earlier with Candid…

Gossip Girl is a television show produced by the CW, based off of a book series of the same name. It is an American teen drama set in New York Upper East Side and tells the story of privileged upper class young adults, as they battle sex, drugs, alcohol, relationships, and betrayal. The entire series is narrated by an infamous anonymous, who blogs the lives and drama of “Manhattan’s elite.” Many of the characters are frequently referred to as this, and as “Upper East Siders.” Gossip Girl has…

Do The Benefits of Reality Television Outweigh Its Costs? In many first world countries, it is uncommon for a household to not own a TV. For many Americans, watching TV is their main form of entertainment. Every TV show that airs has millions of viewers. Among the sitcoms, crime shows, and game shows that air on television networks, reality TV is high in popularity. According to Newswise, reality TV shows are getting around 18 million viewers, and that was in 2003 (Newswise)! Because nearly…

imperative part in the field of media and social studies along and thus issues of sex are frequently talked about in these scholastic fields. Sex is concentrated on in connection to distinctive mediums in today 's general public including print, recording, film, radio and TV. TV utilization specifically can be considered gendered from various points of view, by taking a gander at things like representation of the genders in programming, the laborers on the shows and the groups of onlookers,…

getting ready to leave for work, a mysterious object falls from the sky. It’s a stage light. This is our first clue that something is not quite right. Later, we discover that Truman Burbank was born and raised on the set of the world’s most popular television show. The idea that a child could be adopted by a corporation is completely absurd. After this corporation adopted this child, they placed him in a giant dome, to live out his life in front of cameras, for the whole world to see. The men…

children. It is rated for children six years and older. Despite the age, it is classified at children younger and even older adults watch the show as well. Since the show has great popularity, to this day there are still new episodes that air. The television network that runs this show is Nickelodeon. SpongeBob SquarePants is an entertainment show, but it may not be helping the children as parents think. A lot of people have questioned the meaning of the show such as Evans (2006), who states,…