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After reading “The Reality of the Gaze” by Giannino and Campbell (2012), I feel compelled to dispute the authors’ opening description of Flavor Flav and the rise of Public Enemy. Flavor Flav then as he would later with the “reality” show Flavor of Love was exploiting a social issue and doing it in a provocative manner that would ensure sales for his corporate bosses. Public Enemy exploited the oppression of African Americans in society by fueling their rap with angst and angry lyrics, which kicked off a whole new subgenre in rap. This allowed the more media savvy members of the group—like Ice-T—to leverage their popularity and pursue a career in Hollywood. Flavor Flav finally got his chance to bring back his persona with his VH1 reality show, which exploits the harem notion of women from reality dating shows.
The intersection of race, gender and society in a study like this implicitly puts a great deal of validity on a show like Flavor of Love as though it were an authentic cultural expression. It is not and should not be accepted as such: it is a concocted corporate version of The Bachelor for the African American community as well as the white community that grew up listening to Public Enemy and feels a nostalgic warmth for Flavor Flav and his explicit and angry lyrics. The reality is not that this show represents any type...
In this show, the producers are exploiting African Americans to promote an unrealistic image of relationships, and in doing so they hurt the concept of healthy human relationships in society. There is no real intersection of race, gender or society in this phenomenon because the whole thing is fabricated and concocted by the culture industry, as the Frankfurt School called it, in order to keep people oppressed by its superficial products.
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After reading “From Good Times to Blackish” by Hill and Kelly, I can see yet again another artificial way in which the media represents families. Hill and Kelly show that economic times tend to set the standard for fatherhood, and that race and culture inform ethnic families about what fatherhood should be like. Yet in shows like Blackish just like in The Cosby Show, the well-to-do African American family is basically like any other white family because it is cut from the same economic cloth, while the reality of most black families is that black men are “overrepresented among the poor, incarcerated, the unemployed, and the unmarried-all factors…
Race, Gender, Sex - Rollin' the Rs I wrote this to try to mirror some of the youthful feel of the book because that's what comes across. It is a REACTIONARY piece, not just an intellectual representation of the contents. That is what the assignment asks for. I tweaked it to read a bit better here and there but I think this is what was requested. The full assignment request said:
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
Vietnam films have rewritten the winners and the losers of that saga and action-adventure films reinforce cultural norms of violence and power (175). Despite the increased real presence of women in positions of power, often media representations of women and other formerly disenfranchised groups remain stereotyped or relegated to marginal or token roles, although this is changing. Still, certain outlets like women's magazines often function as advertisements that perpetuate
The main Woolworth's store was already on strike, and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) was threatening to escalate the strike to all of the stores in Detroit." (Cobble, 2003) Myra had been nicknamed the: "Battling Belle of Detroit" by media in the Detroit area because Myra is said to have:.." relished a good fight with employers, particularly over the issues close to her heart. A lifelong member
Gender is a complex concept that varies across cultures and time periods (Butler, 1990). It encompasses a range of biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors that shape individuals' perceptions, beliefs, and behaviors based on perceived sex (West & Zimmerman, 2009). Gender cultural analysis examines how cultural norms, values, and expectations influence the construction of gender roles and identities, as well as their implications for power relations and social inequalities (Connell,
media engagement with the television program Downton Abbey, with a particular focus on the way the program's high production values and contemporary hindsight sometimes clash with the outdated standards of the historical period portrayed. In particular, while one might expect a program set in an aristocratic estate in the early 19th century England to critically evaluate the social, political, and cultural structures of the day, the program often only