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Gender Representation in the Television Series Married with Children and The Cosby Show

dealt with it. But were the gender roles closer to the mark than other shows at the time? Perhaps. Clair Huxtable exampled the Af...

Media Studies and Theory

concepts and have produced new technologies and data largely based upon past theoretical research and evaluation. Unders...

Australia's Reality Television

"Big Brother" of 12 percent, the show will be back in the lineup for the fall, along with a raft of other reality shows -- a fact ...

Aileen Wuornos and Court TV

at a standstill when abuse has occurred. There can certainly be no argument surrounding the fact that family dynamics -- which re...

Overview of OCD

plans in place which have proven themselves useful for normalizing the behavior and thought patterns of OCD individuals. These tr...

Positive and Negative Impacts of TV News

2003). In more recent times we hear that many of the journalists today are liberals and as such are biased in how they present the...

Book and Television Production of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

In three pages this paper discusses the reception of the novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson in comparison ...

Oppenheim's Media Violence and Television

to conform to these, or to rebel against them. Thoman (2003) makes the point that the American Psychological Associations survey i...

Sex and Violence on Television

many viewers find objectionable. It has been described as "wall-to-wall violence scored to gratingly loud rock with the occasional...

Lost Childhood in the 'Band Candy' Episode of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Television Series

characteristics that set them apart from other members of the animal world; one of the most prominent of these traits is that of r...

Popular Culture and the Influence of TV News

scientists, parents and educators are becoming more and more concerned about the influence television has on the lives of American...

Technological Determinism

of those who pursue technological determinism in its most extreme form believe that society is determined by technology -- that ne...

Digital TV of the Future

In five pages this paper discusses digital TV and programming of the future. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Children Consumerism, TV, and the Internet

is no denying that their very presence has drastically altered humanitys existence since the mid to late 1940s. Through a number ...

British Writer Dennis Potter and Son of Man TV Movie

In five pages Potter's controversial Son of Man TV movie based upon Jesus's life is examined in terms of the writer's objectives a...

Novel and Film Comparisons of Maya Angelou's I Know Where the Caged Bird Sings

In five pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of Angelou's novel and the TV movie adaptation in a discussion of strengt...

U.S. Crime

publication from the University of Maryland, the authors note that one of the reasons for discrepancies in crime statistics is tha...

UK's Satellite TV

In eight pages this paper discusses the satellite television history of Great Britain, its influences, changes, BSB's role, digita...

Violence on Television and Kids

In five pages this paper discusses the effects of TV violence upon child psychosocial development. Six sources are cited in the b...

TV Series The X Files

In seven pages this paper discusses the adventure, thriller, and science fiction genres encompassed by The X Files TV series. Six...

Colin McCabe's Model and Television Drama Cultural Analysis

In a paper consisting of 7 pages Colin McCabe's cultural analysis model is applied to TV drama in regards to McCabe's reality stru...

European and American Censorship

This paper examines how TV and movies are censored in a comparative analysis of Europe and America consisting of 5 pages. Ten sou...

TV Bias

In this paper the question of whether bias still exists in television is asked with researchers and writers all contending there i...

Television Violence and Its Influences

of theatrical films shown on TV. Reasons for violence? There is never a simple answer to that question. But people often commit...

Past and Present Hercules

In five pages this essay considers Hercules in an overview of his mythological life and compares the Greek version to the popular ...

TV News Stories, Memory, and Attention

In seven pages this research paper on cognitive psychology considers the impact of retaining news stories through TV 'teasers' wit...

Television's Cultural and Ethnic Stereotyping

of television talk shows. Whatever socially redeeming qualities contemporary television talk shows may have, they have not made t...

Reality TV and Lessons for Society

was born. About Survivor 2, Dan French says: " I love Survivor. To me it exemplifies exactly what television does better than any ...

Women and the Impact of the Media

Council Chairman Dr. Ian Bogle claimed that there is a cult of "bodily perfection" that is perpetuated by media (2000). Recommenda...

Television Series Sex and the City and Gender Communication

we assume they should be able to understand each other...The obstacles in cross-gender communication are often greater than those ...