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The Fox network show Empire tells the story of a family in Chicago and the family feud of money and fame. The show stars Terrence Howard as a successful hip-hop artist who rose from the ghettos and build the multimillion dollar company to support his family in the expense of ratting out his now ex-wife and ex-business partner over a drug deal gone bad. Howard must choose between one of his three sons as the heir to his company, but the resurgence of their mother joins the battle of who can become the successful heir of the company. I think the show is boring and un-original, but it does have some good moments from an anthropologist and scholarly view. The show stars mostly an all-black cast because of the setting in Chicago and the origin of the family coming from the ghettos and was affiliated with a gang. The family, more so with the father (Terrence Howard), started out as a gang banger who was trying to support his family but also trying to promote to get a start on his h...

Chris evans (left) and Chris Pratt (right) as how displayed in the Disney Marvel movies (are those abs even real?) So, chapter 8 can be summarized simply as how stereotyping femininity and masculinity can misrepresent and damage the social construct of gender. But I love how this chapter mainly focuses on women stereotyping like they are the only victims. Sure, the chapter has some examples of men stereotypes but they are laughable. Mainly the examples brought about the book are how men are also emotional and fragile and the big bad masculine men stereotyping can be damaging to a man’s image. Don’t make me laugh. Whoever wrote this book is another liberal trash and I can’t wait to be done with this class. Men are much more stereotyped in today’s time as the same amount as women. I don’t watch much television, so I can’t immediately think of examples to prove my point, so I will use the popular Marvel Cinematic Universe films as examples. Thor being "healed"  ...

Bojack Horseman is the current show that I am binging on Netflix and I love it. The show revolves around this has been 90’s tv star of a family sitcom and struggles to stay relevant in modern times.   The show takes satirical takes on current events, politics, celebrities, and the business side of showbusiness. While also being a very funny and well-done comedy show it also has its drama moments that almost becomes too close to reality. Even though being a cartoon, there has been moments in the show that deals with depression, relationships, self-destructive behaviors, and emotions that I have experience making it a very relatable show, even too relatable to my comfort. The show includes all 7 of topics we discussed in class, one way or another, including; exoticism, othering, ideology of difference, tokenism, assimilation, stereotyping, and exclusion. And Of course, this blog contains SPOILERS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED Bojack and Diane    Exoticism is to ro...

How the Simpsosn – Last Exit to Springfield Satires workers/unions and management/owners of means of production. Workers/ unions: 1)      During a flash back, a boy working in a sweatshop owned by Mr. Burns grandfather orders to boy to be taken after finding “atoms” of his good in his pocket. The boy then threatens if this continues then unions will form. And these unions will eventually demand too much and become too expensive for companies to provide for, so they take their companies outside the U.S. like Japan. This reflects reality where Japan workforce is enslaved to the in-place system of how workers are encouraged, and sometimes threatened, to give up their free time for their companies, work overtime, and to choose work over family. 2)      A union leader of the union of the powerplant is missing and they jokingly hope that he will turn up safely but laugh of the notion. They know that he has been missing be...

  Television and films have already been ruined for me by taking BECA-340 Media Aesthetics. Since taking that class I would look at different aspects that I learned in media aesthetics and apply it how it would be used in that scene that I would be watching. For instance, in the latest Pixar film Coco, a revered character has revealed himself to be the villain. When the character revealed that he was the villain, the lighting has changed from a colorful scene to a gloomy dark scene with lighting. The lighting on the character was changed from a high key lighting to a low-key lighting. And the camera angle on the character started at eye level but when he started revealing his past actions, the camera slow changed to a tilted up on the characters face. This applies distortion and a chaotic feeling to the scene resembling evil or discomfort. Throughout the scene I was looking at other clues that would make me analyze more about the way the director had presented the scene ...

                To me what makes a satirical television show successful is attacking the issue with a smart approach and mocking it in the right angles. A show that does this brilliantly is South Park.  What makes South Park a successful satire cartoon show is the shock value and its ability to get the message across no matter how controversial, vulgar, or disgusting the content is. South Park does this well through its simplistic animation and an array of characters.  In one South Park’s most memorable episodes, South Park Elementary gets a new principal named “PC Principal.” PC Principal is the satirical manifestation of political correctness war in todays media. PC Principal is an aggressive individual that is passionate about the equal rights for all and attacks any that shows the slightest hint of intolerance of any kind. PC Principal is a satirical approach of the “social justice warrior”...