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...and their ideal character and sometimes, ads sell addiction. The critical objective of media is to bring viewer to marketers, the same way TV shows deliver commercial to viewers. In efforts to fulfill their objectives, ads, magazines and other commercials oppress women. The paper seeks to investigate how advertising commercial degrades women in their work. Discussion Various feminist and other scholars assert than diverse television commercials, magazines, newspapers, and other media outlets are degrading and disrespectful to female body because they hyper-sexualize...
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...?Reality Television Shows Reality television is a TV show that observes real-life situations. This genre of programming presents unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people instead of professional actors. It is not a strange thing to this era. It is something that almost everyone watches today. Sometimes it’s the case that you can’t flip through channels and not find a reality show airing. It has almost become a part of who we are. It found its beginnings in the time of the Cold War surveillance –anxiety- at a time when there was the...
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...is the time in which very skewed caste members and limited types of shows are aired, building the perception in children from a very young age as to what constitutes an important caste and which caste is subordinate, when that should not be the case. In 1998 the role of ethnic minorities, such as African Americans, Native Americans and Hispanics actually declines when their visibility should actually have increased over the years. Narrowcasting to an ethnic minority about their group of people doesn’t make other groups aware of their potential and their lifestyle, and doesn’t bring about the sensitization that is necessary for a harmonized media and a...
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...such as X-factor add value or are crucial to British music industry because in a highly fragmented media world, the talent show is among the few mass-market strategies for exposing artists to the wider public. For instance, with the prominent Pops and other public media markets demise, the X-factor remains as the only strategy for pop and rock artists mainstream to expose artists and their music to the mass music markets and other public audience, (Holmes, 200, p.56). Talent television shows have over 15 million viewers at a time and it is crucial for various artists to get on these shows as a way of...
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..., and the interview" are the three basic elements common to all TV talk shows that set them apart from other TV programmes (Brunn, 1999 p.244).
According to Brunn, in the talk show the TV studio is the space of the programme and in talk shows the unity of time and place is observed in the same way as in classical drama. Thus the role of the TV medium in the talk show is to be, both the event in itself and to the place of the event at, one and the same time. The host is the central element who functions as an intermediary between the...
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...adverts in the United States and also describe their intended meanings.
Intended meaning:
The first advert informs and persuades consumers to use Dulex condoms, this advert is aimed at encouraging people to use Dulex condoms, the advert shows a male meeting a woman across the street but he is accompanied by some creatures at the back and this are intended to be signify sperms, however this creatures are trapped in the condom.
In the second advert we have a man and male child where the child wants a product but the adult refuses to purchase the product, this shows that parents or adults should not restrict children to purchase products in the market including condoms, the other meaning...
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...in onscreen threads and narratives, but it also shows a development of a cognitive mindset. The Media Moguls who were accused of dishing out “Dumb simple pleasure” have intentionally introduced these cognitive changes in modern media to develop an intelligent audience which is more profitable for the TV channel.
Creating confusion: The television shows of the present popular culture refuse to hold the audience’s hand and continuously switch between texture and substance of the dialogue, using The popular sit-com shows The West Wing and ER as an example , the author says that though the verbal exchange...
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...Makeover Television Programs Since its emergence, television (TV) has become the most powerful source of mass communication and entertainment. Undoubtedly, television has become an integral part of our lives and has successfully claimed a spot in our homes. Ordinary television includes game shows, docusoaps, talk shows and other infotainment programs that are concerned with mundane issues. These shows normally have presenters and involve ordinary people. Lifestyles, makeovers and reality are the main genres of ordinary television.
Reality television can...
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..., which involves a large object heading for Earth, how they decide to destroy the objects before they hit Earth, and men die for the sake of the people still living on Earth.
In Deep Impact, a teenage stargazer, with the help of a professional astronomer, discovers that a seven-mile-wide comet is headed straight for Earth. In Armageddon, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration learns that an asteroid the size of Texas, which is what remains of a meteor shower, is on a direct path for the planet. Both of these objects are large enough to completely destroy all life on Earth. Events such as these are referred to in these movies, as well as in real life, as ELEs, or Extinction Level Events. If plans are not...
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...as masculine characters that should be playing dominant roles in horror shows. In most Hollywood TV Shows, it is only men who mostly use guns to attack their enemies or defend other people including ladies. However, ladies on the other hand, play a passive role and only keep on watching as these strong men wrest their enemies and protect them. At times, the female characters are used as sex objects to satisfy their male counterparts. All these important information from this article will be of much help while conducting my research.
Cecilia L. Ridgeway. Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World. Oxford:...
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