there is no escape from the fact that meaning is, in theend, interpretation. It always shifts from one historical setting to another
And sadly history is not always written with the correct interpretation of facts. History is not ways honest and really does shift form one setting to another.
So Somehow this person who isn’t what one thinks ofnormally as the majority cultural identity and ethnic identity – racial identity of themajority of British people – because the majority of British people, though theword “British” doesn’t carry with it any specific reference at all to questions ofrace or color, one assumes that the British Olympic team might be full of whiteBritish people
This is spot on what is meant by lack of representation.These things shouldn't even be questioned because of course there are black people in Britain.
digitallanguages, languages communicated by musical instrument, languagescommunicated by facial gesture, languages communicated by facialexpression, the use of the body to communicate meaning, the use of clothes toexpress meaning
I feel like as time has gone on many of these styles of communications have become our main types of communication. People can express so much with the style of clothing they wear, how they speak not just the language but our use of the language and our use of music choice and online activites.
It’s true, of course, that we all don’tmake sense of things in the same way and therefore that each of us has a littlekind of conceptual world of our own, or rather we have our own sort of take onthe conceptual world.
I believe this is very true for today's media. You can have two different news outlets covering the exact same event and they will portray the event in two completely different views and focus on two different parts of the event, leaving the viewer of each news station with completely different views of the world or whatnot due to the representation.
when we are immersed in something, surrounded by it the waywe are by images from the media, we may come to accept them as just part ofthe real and natural world
I feel like this is very true for some of the older generations who spent the majority of their childhoods and youth absorbing racist or sexist views that were portrayed to them on the television screen. These were the images that were given to them repeatedly for many years and they didn't ever give it second thought, really. They accepted the visuals they were given.
The cultural images that CSI and its spin-offs circulate about the police and about scienceare bolstered by the long-term popularity of the crime genre and by the esteem ofscience.
I think this shows that the audience believes more in the science solving the crime than the actual police solving the crimes. They look to science to "prove" what they police had already hypothesized about the situation. We look for the same science in our real life police work even if real life science has not fully caught up with the pseudo science that we are shown in the show.
in only four episodes during CSI’s first season do the investigatorsfail to apprehend the criminal, and in two of these (Episodes 103 and 109) they have anidea about the criminals’ identity but not enough information for an arrest.
It is more realistic for them to not find a criminal than it is for them to solve every single case that they encounter. It's not wrong that they don't solve the case, it just doesn't make for good television.
hey also include more details about the policesub-culture and about the personal lives of the police (Wittebols, 2004). These personallives may be portrayed as home life
I think this was a good addition to the crime shows, it shows how the police and detectives must balance their homes lives vs the work lives. It's a more delicate balance than someone working at an office job. They could be called into investigate crimes in the middle of the night or their families could be put into danger due to the grudge a criminal might hold against them for their arrest.
to programs in which police officers apprehend the guilty (Cavender, 2004).Today, the police are the heroes and lawyers are the villains who impede their quest for justic
I don't disagree with this statement but I feel like it more so highlights the holes in the legal system. We have someone accused of a crime but the lawyers are unable to convict due to lack of evidence or the ability to prove without the shadow of a doubt that this person did indeed commit the crime.
CSI offers surety and certainty, and that this, in part, is why the programis so successful
I agree with this. In almost all of the episodes they are able to capture the bag guy and create an immediate close to the case and "happy ending" to the show. It gives the thrill of the police action with a clear cut solve to the problem.
the experience of a Netflix renter circumvents the boxes altogether in exchange for generic envelopes, leaving only the image printed directly on the disc itself
It’s amazing to realize how far Netflix has come. We used to wait on our little disc to arrive in the mail so that we could watch movie or show and now we have Netflix at our fingertips everywhere we go. They really have revolutionized the way we consume television and movies.
the rise of TV-on-DVD box sets
This was such a big deal before streaming. You didn’t have to wait for a show to come back to rerun. You could watch in order as you pleased and didn’t have to deal with commercials.
The series is the major point of repetition in TV, matchingthe innovation that takes place within each segment. This pattern ofrepetition and innovation is very different from the cinematic model
They have to have more than one perspective so that they can draw the story out longer and keep the viewer engaged and will to keep tuning in to watch. The film is a self contained story that only needs one perspective because we will get a resolution at the end.
For the soapopera/drama, the deliciousness of the anticipation is worth in manyinstances more than the event itself.
This is very true. My grandparents were very into to soap operas, their “stories” and they would discuss them all week. If the season ended on a cliffhanger, they would talk about it until next season started, being super excited to find out how the plot played out.
Non-fiction films have always had a precarious place in thecommercial cinema, and nowadays they are practically non-existent
I feel like we switched to more factual fiction. Taking a historical or prominent event and then embellishing the story to the point that it is even less than loosely based on the actual event. Events that were minor are made to seem like major events or added romances to create a story that sells.
While much of these flows consist of the same sortsof social abstractions that Williams found on television,these information flows have a different and more inti-mate relationship to our lives: they are addressed directlyto us,
Yes but instead of us being given a few options of what we can spend our time watching or looking at, we now get to decide what content we consume. Whether it be binging a show, or doom scrolling, participating in online forums we are not relegated to what's given to us, we find what we are looking for to consume.
frequentinterruptions of daytime television’s flow (particularlycommercial breaks) bolstered the “decentered” experi-ence of women’s housework. By the 1980s and 1990s,this usage had evolved into the more general use of flowto describe the depthless circulation of disconnectedimages and sounds that exemplify the postmoderncondition. In this interpretation, flow is less a machin-ery for ideological reinforcement and more of a descrip-tion of formless content, fleetingly visible, and devoidof deeper meaning.
I feel like this statement can be attributed to Soap Operas. They really did cater to the housewife who was home everyday. My grandmother used to stop all activities when her "stories" came on and if she wasn't home to catch them she learned to use her VHS recorder to tape them for when she got home.
The pace and style of the news-cast take some priority over the items in it.
Not so much anymore, now we have news channels that only talk about the same news all day long. Circling back to the same topics that they had touched on earlier in the day.
For the fact is that many of us do sit there
I feel like with the change in streaming availability that this is not so much the case anymore for younger watchers. We pick and chose when we want to watch our new/favorite show. We can binge in little bits when we have time. We are not bound by the timing of television. And more so we have many more options of things besides tv, Podcasts, audiobooks. Television is no longer the go to for entertainment.
eople can consciously selectanother channel or another programme, or switch off altogether.
When I still had cable television years ago, I would switch between shows during commercial breaks so that I could catch multiple shows or pieces of shows at the same time. I have a serious hate for advertisements so I try to not watch them at all.
In British commercial television there was a specificand formal undertaking that ‘programmes’ should not be inter-rupted by advertising; this could take place only in ‘naturalbreaks’:
This seems like a more natural and sensible way to deal with advertisements. Creating breaks so that can add in more adds is a terrible setup and the audience recognizes that.
or the main play was pre-ceded by a curtain-raiser.
I have discovered some of my favorite musicians and styles of music just by getting to shows early and actually listening to the opening acts or the intermission act of a show.
Among the toprated sitcoms for 1990-91 were three that dealt regularly and explicitlywith social issues: Roseanne, The Simpsons, and A Different World.
I grew up on these shows and I found them more relatable to my own life than any of the previous shows they have talked about. The hit on real life topics and how the family/group would work through them. It was funny but it was also more realistic than anything I had seen before.
Many believe that the renewed emphasis on the stability of the family-especially the return to the nuclear family in The Cosby Show and Family Ties-reflected the conservative ideology of the Reagan era
Yes but it was at this exact time period that the nuclear family was beginning to change and morph. What they were portraying during the 80's wasn't based on what was happening in the real family life.
It is, in a sense, formula for formula's sake; the veryritualistic simplicity of the problem/solution format gives us a comfortingfeeling of security as to the cultural status quo.
For some people this is a comfort to them. Being able to rely on a consistent show format that takes their minds off of their real world problems. It is the detachment from the day to day that gives them enjoyment. The small comfort of knowing that the show will have the same similar pattern each week with a "happy ending"
"The only movement is toward the alleviation of the complication and the reduction of confusion"
Yes! There is no story or growth of the characters. It's always as this quote says. Fix the problem, laugh at the issue that created it and show ends. No one experiences any real life events or personal growth through the problems that are created. You would think with the change in society and all of the issues that are prevalent that they would be able to create stories that have some sort of depth to them.
he claims that the TV sitcom completely rejects boththe form and the meaning of this traditional comic plot, thus symbolizingthe "end of comedy" as a progressive social force
I don't disagree with this. The sitcom is very overused and predictable. In some cases it even seems ridiculous. I find the sitcom show very hard to watch, even though it has changed and evolved over the years the repetitiveness of the story just doesn't bring me any type of amusement anymore.
“I want thosewords to follow the set-owner in case he takes a notion to get up and go outto the bathroom while the commercial is running on the screen.”
Advertising is the root of many of the problems in America and the world.
An economist’s study of1950 TV set owners showed ownership declined with incomes andeducational levels beyond moderate levels, while suburban and smaller-cityhouseholds were mu more likely to buy sets than big-city households,even though su viewers had more TV annels available.
I feel like this says so much about television and society. More educated families didn't want their kids to spend countless hours wasted in front of a tv and lower educated families spent even more time sitting in front of the tv.
e style of acting in television is determined by the conditions ofreception; there is simply no place for the florid gesture, the overprojectionof emotion, the exaggeration of voice or grimace or movement, inside theaverage American living room.
This sounds like they don't want any depiction of real life actually displayed on television, more of a facade of real life.
ere were also early fears about the disruptive effects of television on theAmerican home and family;
I feel like it was much more than disruptive. The television set replaced hobbies and hands on learning. In the last reading it stated that tv sets replaced pianos in the home. Studies have shown that learning piano increases cognitive function and we replaced it with brain rot.
militant CBS sponsorship of colortelevision in the ultra-high frequencies,” led to precisely the televisionindustry stagnation that RCA had warned would be ruinous to theAmerican economy
This sounds like children not wanting another kid to have access to a new toy or game because they can't have it first or as much. This kind of business behavior is detrimental to country wide progress.
e image of compassionate families that advertisersoffered the public
This is a continuing theme throughout this writing, advertisements telling the public what the "solve" was for the family issues they were having. Was this just a post war thing or was advertisements this abundant before?
In part, for this reason, the glorification of middle-classfamily life seems to have had the unplanned, paradoxical effect of sendingmarried women into the labor force in order to obtain the money necessaryto live up to the ideal.
Guilting women into leaving the workforce to be homemakers and raise kids only to then require them to go back into the workforce to help pay for the life they were told they needed. I'm starting to understand our societal problems more.
e advertisements suggested that television would serve as acatalyst for the return to a world of domestic love and affection
It feels more like paper advertising sold an idea to the general public so that they could then advertise to them on a greater scale.