Cleavland Show Essay

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Lecture: July 16th: Bobs burgers, cleavland show. CONTINUE FROM LAST WEEK: * Television is a site for struggle of the family. * Television responds to changing values in society. * TV is not a machine that is brought into (invades) and structures the social space of the home and everyday life. It is brought into everyday life and social space. * How do we incorporate TV into our lives… * TV is a “seamless equivalence with social life” (Stephen Heath). * The texts and technology of TV must fit into a specific social formation The preexisting structures of the family. * TV represents a home-centured way of life * **TV represents an idelized reflection of the family * **Offers only private solutions…show more content…
* Sitcoms plays out the tensions over family life (middle life) – Example, Tim the tool man tailor. Those tensions are resolved – audiences get pleasure – by the end of the program. * It teaches us how to consume – offers a nest for advertisers. * The family sitcom is a capitalist realism – set of symbolic conventions that grow out of and support a set of economic practices which are celebrated and promoted. * Shows never question the status quo, they don’t engage the social, political, and economic world in which the families exist. * The sitcom is the heart of consumer capitalism because if offers advertisers a means to sell products. * It glorifies the virtues of private pleasures of material abundance – no problems come up such as health care, money issues, etc. * Shows like osbournes do not challenge the social structures because they still do not challenge the broader social issues. ROSANE: * Is radical! She brings in social problems and economic problems. The family does not solve all its problems within the end of the episode. The door opens in the show – a politician comes in and broader social issues are brought in. * Leave it to
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