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Media Analysis -- Your Media Analysis is due this week. For this assignment, you will conduct a sociologica
This analysis focuses on the 2006 film Bordertown, which starred Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Lopez and was directed by Gregory Nava. The movie was widely panned by critics, and received limited publicity in the U.S. Such adversity was largely due to the political nature of this film, which widely depicted a series of brutal, unsolved murders (which were still prevalent during the time the film was made) of young women -- from mid-adolescence to their early 20's -- in Mexico's Ciudad Juarez. There is a reporter from Chicago who travels to Juarez specifically to write a story about these occurrences, and the major media outlet that she writes for (The Chicago Tribune) refuses to publish the story. Despite the fact that the star witness for the story has her life threatened to cooperate with the Tribune, the story is never published because all of the murdered women were working for U.S. funded factories in exploitive labor situations (Bordertown, 2006). The film ends with the reporter quitting the Tribune...
And labor-cheap countries like Mexico, and educates people (Schaefer, 2010) about this phenomenon. The boons benefit both the U.S. And the Mexican governments and are a direct result of the somewhat dubious North American Free Trade Agreement. This agreement is primarily used for U.S. based corporations to implement factory systems in Mexico, most typically those right across the border in locations such as Ciudad Juarez, which are extremely exploitative for the local (and mostly female) laborers. The film serves as a means of education, and possible mobilization of the masses, about this issue.
Sociological Perspective
There are a plethora of sociological concepts that directly apply to the circumstances shown in this movie. Gender roles are probably the most prominent of these, for the simple fact that the movie is largely…
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McLelland, K. (2000). Functionalism. www.web.grinnell.edu. Retrieved from http://web.grinnell.edu/courses/soc/s00/soc111-01/IntroTheories/Functionalism.html
Nava, G., Lopez, J., Fields, S., & Nava, G. (2006). Bordertown. United States: Capitol Films.
Schaefer, R.T. (2010). Sociology: A Brief Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Media Ownership Concentration The author of this report is asked to do a Marxist analysis of a media conglomerate and what does or tends to happen when a single corporate structure owns multiple publications and how the forcing out or limiting of other publications can lead to a stunted and incomplete view of reality due to an artificially limited marketplace. The company used as an example in this report is Time
Media Archaelogy and Videogames In today's world, the rapid development of technology has opened worlds of vast information and entertainment that are instantly accessible at the touch of a button. The relationships created in this way not only involve those we interact with online or via gaming, but also our own perception, the mental imagery we create and the apparatus we use to access these. A researcher who truly wants to
Media Violence The potential relationship between media violence and actual aggression comes to the forefront of public discussion, but unfortunately this discussion rarely takes into account the science related to the relationship between media violence and aggressive behavior. In particular, there is a widespread assumption that media violence directly causes aggression and aggressive behavior, and this assumption has become so common that even secondary scholarly discussions of the evidence have taken
Media Communications Representation of characters and role models in different media outlets is based on perceptions and preconceived notions held by the producer, co-producers, and audiences at large. Only those representations are drawn that largely resonate with current meanings given to people, characters, places, and objects.The paper presents two theoretical approaches to study media and its impact at large. Theory of social constructivism provides framework to assess the meanings given to
Media Audiences Marxist media theorists discuss the media in terms of their role as 'ideological apparatuses'. Explain the key notions behind this research, paying particular attention to the concept of hegemony and the media's role within it. What is 'hegemony', and why is it important to audience studies? Marxist theorists emphasizes on the role of mass media in reproduction of status quo, however there is no school of thought regarding his theories.
Media Review News story - Union Serves 72-Hour Strike Notice at Viking Air The CAW (Canadian Auto Workers Union) has announced a 72 hours strike while making a bargain with the Viking Air management. As per the notice, the Union will go on strike by 12 noon on Thursday, 19th January (CAW, 2012). The union's national spokesperson Gavin McGarrigle said that it had been over a year since skilful workers had been waiting