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Deciphering TV Programming

over and become the person she would like to be (88888888888888 A "situation" comedy takes its humor from the situations in whic...

Ethical Dilemmas within the Legal Framework: “The Jury”

hours each. The first disk is concerned with the description of the crime and the selection of the jury; the second covers the pro...

Health Promotion/Childhood Obesity

14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...

Media Article Analysis/TV and Aggressiveness

revulsion to blood and gore that the researchers discuss as one of the desensitizing aspect of exposure to violence. Parents watch...

Glued to the Tube

a moment of quiet for themselves" (Winn 6). The answer seems obvious when its put like that, and Winn argues that it is the desire...

Stigmatizing Mr. Spock

rarely a week goes by that it doesnt fire its weapons, which means that as First Officer, Mr. Spock is frequently responsible for ...

Babylon 5 vs. Star Trek

characters who came after them. Star Trek is also known for its progressive point of view. Roddenberry often presented a sort of ...

Television and Film Production

growth spurt following the war and, at that time, the relationship between the film and television industries was one of antagonis...

Zoos Have No Reason to Exist

lives are miserable. Studies have shown that animals in zoos "can suffer physically, mentally and emotionally. For this reason, ca...

Essay: TV Bad for You

The Reasons Television is Not Good for You Research Compiled for The Paper Store, Enterprises...

Friends Not Parents

who appeared on TV screens years ago. This paper considers the parenting styles of todays characters as opposed to those found on ...

Cat's Perspectives on Either Hunting Birds are Watching TV

and be a potato with them. Dogs crave the attention and approval of their humans, while we cats could truly care less what people...

1960s' Television and the Star Trek Series

was signed by some of the greatest names in science fiction, such as Poul Anderson, Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon (1966: St...

Film Marketing by Genre

the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...

Feminist and Marxist Perspectives on Pop Culture

material conditions and may be equated with historical materialism ("Exploration," 1992). They emphasize the economic value of wo...

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 ...

Technological Determinism

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

Overview of OCD

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

Movie Theaters and People

(Fetto and Lach, 2000, p. 9). Geographically speaking, 74 percent of these attendees live in the Western United States as opposed...

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...

TV Violence and Women

itself appear erotic to the male viewer (Marks, 2000). A report on prime-time broadcast network TV issued in 2002 by the National...

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...

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...

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...

Article Review of Barbara A. Dennison's 'Television Viewing and Television in Bedroom Associated with Overweight Risk Among Low Income Preschool Children'

significantly to the problem. The allure of the silver screen, whether that screen be that of a television or a game pad, has tra...

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 ...

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...

US Public Schools and Prayer

or discourage prayer, or participate in such activities with students" (Uncle Sams Prayer Stick, 2003, p. 38). At what appeared to...