Modern Sitcoms Compared To 1950s Sitcoms Today people watch sitcoms on TV for entertainment and sometimes we can relate to them because it is realistic to people’s lives today. In the 1950s people watched sitcoms to compare or imitate values with their families. In Stephanie Coontz’s “What We Really Miss about the 1950s”, it talks about a poll that was taken in 1996 by Knight Rider news agency that more Americans preferred the 1950s over any other decade for children to grow up in. Coontz suggest our nostalgia for the 1950s could be miss leading. Coontz believes it is not a good decade for people to remember there was change in values that caused racism, sexism, and discrimination against women.
The format of Sesame Street at first consisted of a combination of commercial television production elements and educational techniques. It was the first time a more realistic setting, an inner city street and neighborhood, was used for a children's program, a choice writer Michael Davis called "unprecedented". [3] At first, each episode was structured like a magazine, but in 1998, as a result of changes in their audience and its viewing habits, the producers changed to a more narrative format. Early in the show's history, the CTW developed what came to be known as "the CTW model," which consisted of a collaboration between educational advisers, researchers, and producers, something Cooney called an "arranged marriage". [4] In 1968, as part of the development of the show, seminars attended by educational and television experts were held.
As we make advancements and progress, we(humans) are expected to become more intelligent. This is supposedly true, but only to some extent. Human minds become simpler in the means of thought, as seen through the character of Mildred. She is constantly watching TV and thus her brain is forced to process less thoughts because the TV is doing all the thinking for her. Mildred even begins to consider the television characters her “family.” Along with so many other forms of modern technology, TV has us in its clasp.
The producers were worried about losing viewers if they allowed the audience to know she was pregnant. They allowed a show that was titled "Lucy Goes to the Hospital". This episode aired on January 19, 1953, which is the actual date that she gave birth. (n.d. http://www.fiftiesweb.com/i-love-lucy.htm) After this showed aired more shows begin to loosen up on the subject of pregnant woman on TV. The viewers would eventually warm up to the idea and it became more socially acceptable.
A Raisin in the Sun, a book suggests that the ideals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” can become reality for anyone who is willing to work for what would be called the American Dream (Washington 114). For some, it does come true; for many, it does not. In this play, most of the family members want a new home in a white neighborhood; but racism is one of many reasons in which that block them from owing the house. When this play was written, African-Americans were the subject of prejudice and discrimination. In act II Scene 3, Karl Lindner appears; he is a white man who represents the Clybourne Park Improvement Association.
The soap opera form first developed on American radio in the 1920s , and expanded into television starting in the 1940s , and is normally shown during the daytime, hence the alternative name, daytime serial . The first concerted effort to air continuing drama occurred in 1946 on the DuMont television series Faraway Hill . Soap operas, in their present format, were introduced to television in 1950 . Two long-running soaps, Search for Tomorrow and Love of Life , first started broadcasts in 1951 . The term "soap opera" originated from the fact that when these serial dramas were aired on daytime radio, the commercials aired during the shows were largely aimed at housewives.
Influence of Visual Media University of Phoenix MEDIA AND AMERICAN CULTURE HUM/176 Influence of Visual Media Television has been an avenue to bring families closer together by giving them weekly television shows they can all enjoy together as a family no matter what the difficulty of the day. It has given countless mothers of disconnected teenage girls’ shows they can enjoy together and give them a common show that allows them to connect on some level. It has allowed fathers an outlet to sit and watch sporting events with their sons when they are growing up and it seems like they can find no common ground. Movies have given way to cult following that both children and parents can discover and enjoy together, the phenomena that is Star Wars was a huge hit when most of us were children and we are now sharing with our children and drawing them into our world and widening the cult following. Today’s movie such as Twilight and Lord of the Rings brings both parents and children into current movie series that both parent and child can enjoy first hand together.
A.L Hendrick’s descriptive narrative, the Jamaican Fragment, tells the story of a Jamaican man who witnesses a young white boy “imposing his will upon a little black boy” (363). Understanding the content, diction, and syntax, provides the resources that allow the readers to go through the experiences as the author did. The Jamaican Fragment deals with a Jamaican man’s internal suspicions regarding racial inferiority in his homeland. When walking to work one morning the man notices a young black boy and a young white boy playing in a garden. Upon watching them closer, the man realizes the white boy is dominating the black boy, while the black boy submitted.
What sitcom is going to be like in 2024? The information including the content, production, and technology based on my observation of how it has been developing in the past, from I Love Lucy to How I Met Your Mother. Content In the early age of television, the contents were borrowed from the radio programs, whether dramas or comedies. Television sitcom is like a phoenix bird from the ashes of radio business. Regarding the popularity of the sitcom is now not as big as before.
Even though the show only aired once a week, it portrayed a bad image that parents did not want their children to be idolizing. A large number of college students can be found in bars and nightclubs today trying to imitate the cast. This leads to irresponsible drinking and actions. Society today cannot only blame entertainment media for the influence that it has on people. Morals and values are first taught in the home.