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Everybody Loves Raymond, the gender roles played out in this particular Television Show
... television sitcom based on a seemingly typical modern American household. The show is based around a loving but somewhat unequal marriage between Ray and Debbie. Thrown into the mix is Ray's overprotective mother, his domineering father, and ...
In what ways has Channel 4 altered the landscape of British television broadcasting for its competitors?
... diversity of view'. This policy, despite the channel's difficulties, has proved successful, and has moved the goalposts of British broadcasting as a whole - indeed we saw a repetition of these revolutionary events with the birth of Channel 5 in 1998, which we will examine more fully later. Firstly ...
Comparing Walter Benjamin and Susan Sontag
... Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) mentioned in his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" photography and cinema formed a new vision and a new kind of art. On the other side Susan Sontag one of America's important writers who was born in 1933 and living in New York today ...
Various compositions demonstrated in Citizen Kane
... the set allowed for scenes lit by normal lightbulbs, giving the appearance of real rooms, but the theatrical spotlights through the windows in the newsreel showing room and the library highlight parts of the scenery, leaving others in shadow. The people working ...
A detailed investigation into a specific genre of print-based advertising
... of people in the western world can quickly recall, as quoted by a production by the BBC "Brands", aired in 2000. This shows the power of repetition as a persuasive device, if an advertisement constantly uses the same phrasing over and over again, the public ...
Compare and Contrast "Frankenstein" and "The Dead" the same? or different?
... of the stories quickly show the reader their arrogance, though Victor more so than Gabriel. It becomes apparent early in "Frankenstein" that Victor is very contemptuous. The reader follows Victor through the first part of the book as he acquires knowledge and tries to understand the workings of the ...
The Castle
... the team work evident in the co-operation of the Kerrigan family and other neighbors who are also threatened. The ' Australian larrikin spirit', which some may see as positive, is portrayed by Darryl and Steve pulling the gates off the estate to one of the Barlow members, who are responsible for the ...
VSA 1000 Introduction to Visual Culture
... the story, and also, it's the effect of television brings to us. There are some particulars in the film show us the differences between realities and illusion of life: each episode has glass shattering. If the red ambulance does not crash through glass that is being carried across the ...
The Evolution of portrayals of family in television
... In The Family" which presented a working-class and drew its comedy out of political differences among generations and genders in the household, and "The Jeffersons" who had, as the opening credits announced, finally got "a piece of the pie" flourished. In the ...
Starksy and Hutch
... form of coke to give the high feeling but no drug sniffing dog can find it. None of the cops in the town knew this form of coke existed. Starsky and Hutch end up figuring this case out by the end of the film and are able to arrest the ...