Television has changed the American family life, and for the worse. In some respect the American family has benefited from some aspects of Television. TV has added a bit of community to the household. Families can sit down on a weekly or nightly schedule and enjoy family time with their favorite TV shows. Telecasted sports also provide a common ground of fun for the family.
Motion pictures and television have brought entertainment and joy to millions if not billions of people around the world, but along with the good comes the bad. Society has evolved a great amount over the past century, but one aspect that has seen rapid change over the past few years are moral values. Taboos from the past are now becoming norms of the present, but this is how history has worked since the beginning of civilization. However, there are those who are having trouble making that transition. As a result, the government set up the FCC, or Federal Communications Commission, to not only act as a watchdog of the content of television shows, but to regulate other facets of the telecommunications industry as well.
They prefered staying at home and watching TV. The New American Cinema, the significant social and cultural change basicly starts with the generation called “Baby Boom”. After the World War 2, there was a huge birth increase in the United States. This new generation became the leader of this revolution in both social and cultural sense. Even though American Graffiti is in this period, the film does not include nudity, drug usage or sex in it.
For much of the 1990’s, I was the sole owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers have long been renowned for being one of the most famous franchises in all of baseball, if not all of sports. Originally from Brooklyn, they employed Jackie Robinson to break the color barrier, as well as countless other all stars and hall of fame players. Also, with Los Angeles playing in the biggest city in the most populated state in the country, the baseball team I owned had a larger viewing audience on a daily basis that any other team in American sports. The biggest reason that I am the most influential, however, is my endless array of media outlets.
Many children from my generation grew up watching “The Cosby Show”, therefore our perception of the ideal family was one similar to the Huxtables’. We later adjusted our thought patterns as we perceived that things also went perfectly with blended families as was depicted on the “The Brady Brunch”, another popular TV family series. So we began transitioning in the late 60’s to early 70’s from the traditional family, (Parents and biological children) living happily under one roof. What was the main contributor to this? New divorce laws which allowed persons to separate without a cause and so families began falling apart.
An Interpretive Approach to Analyzing 8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter: The Role and Power of Ideology Television shows help frame ideologies that viewers are meant to interpret as normality’s for their everyday lives. With almost every modern household in possession of a television or computer with popularity of these devices growing it is increasingly important that people understand how sitcoms frame society and culture as we know it. Furthermore, it is import for people to deconstruct how these sitcoms dictate our morals, wardrobe to dialogue, to the problems the character’s face and how they handle them, to the character’s themselves, viewers are shown how to act dress, think, and handle life’s problems accordingly with the rest of society. Television gives its viewers entertainment while shaping them into what the ideologies that dominate and high class feel should be the standard of normal. Sitcoms in particular give an ideal of family life to the public.
One of the major effects of television in the 1950s and 1960s was that the shows portrayed an idealized version of reality. The three major networks (ABC, NBC, and CBS) developed shows that would appeal to a general family audience. Shows such as Leave it to Beaver, I Love Lucy, and Father Knows Best were a generic family comedy that identified its character-based humor and were largely set within the home. The shows focused primarily on white middle-class families and avoided social issues such as racial discrimination and civil rights (The Impact of Sitcoms on American Culture). Many families of the 1950s and 1960s were traditional families.
Kendrick Morency Mr.Mastronardi English IV Period 1 November 1, 2012 Television: The Major American Benefactor Throughout history, technology has revolutionized the way Americans have lived. Some examples are the computer, the telephone, and motor vehicles. Arguably, the invention that greatly influenced America was the television. Being commercially available since the late 1920s, the television set had become commonplace in homes, businesses and institutions, particularly as a vehicle for advertising, a source of entertainment, and news.During the 1950s, television had become the main medium for molding public opinion. The television has been proven to be a major benefactor that has changed the household and family life of Americans.
Netflix is a movie rental and online streaming company, where customers can pay a monthly fee to either get DVDs sent right to their house or to watch unlimited movies or television shows right on their computer, television, or other internet-accessible devices. The way that Netflix can deliver movies directly to the customers and even stream movies online draws in a customer base on its own, because the customers do not even have to leave the house to watch almost any movie they can think of. This ease of access and use of online video streaming made Netflix very successful and popular in today’s internet savvy society. Founded in 1997, Netflix started out offering online movie rentals, and grew to have millions of members with their online subscriptions. Ten years later in 2007, they introduced their online streaming capabilities so that members could watch television shows and movies on their computers.
Steven Johnson makes the argument that multiple threading has a positive impact on television today.Johnson believes that the show Hill Street Blues successfully had a combination of a complex narrative structure and complex subject matter. Shows of the past only used one or the other. For example All in the Family and Rhondadealt with difficult social issues of that time. The Sopranos deals with multiple threads which involves more than 20 recurring characters. Multi-threading is a very important aspect to television today, but Johnson believes it has not received the credit it deserves.