GOV 370 Exam 2
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- TV as left-wing
- TV is critical of American institutions and values
- G, R, X, NC-17
- NC-17 replaced X (1968-1990); Whenever the industry feels threatened by outside censorship it self-regulates
- OWI
- Disseminated propaganda through films, magazines & other entertainment media; Censored movie content; Encouraged publishers to include war messages in their periodicas; Famous for "Woman power project
- Columbo
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- genre
- group of similar stories; similar setting, character types, conflict different themes, resolution to conflict; conventions
- Unforgiven
- 1992 anti-western; hero is the vicious psychopath; reverses moral assumptions of classical western which died in the 1990s
- cop/mystery/detective
- cused on one person until Hill street blues (ensemble cast); flawed, but incorruptible lead; represent triumph of good in organized sense; yearning for justice
- First Amendment
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- musical
- urban setting; romantic story (couple starts in hostility then fall in love) they and others put on show, stories are integrated; pro-social; Walk Hard, musicals are coming back
- Unitel
- small town on Southern Canadian Border in Pediatrics Journal study 2004; received on American Network; scores dropped to level of Multitel after introduction of TV
- Politically Correct
- Late Night satirical talk show hosted by Bill Maher on ABC; commented on Bush calling terrorists cowards, when we're the ones firing missiles from 3000 miles away; sponsors dropped show as people interpreted it as an attack on troops' courage; show was cancelled; aroused public can have an effect on the content of TV
- white single urban male who lives alone
- Right-wing argument that the hero of shows romanticizes singleness and kills the family; Liberals counter that its a drama requirement and hero has surrogate families which is pro-family
- TV's businessmen
- TV is left wing; TV systematically casts businessmen as villains; TV is systematically critical of business
- The Reagans
- cancelled CBS mini-series Oct 2003; largely favorable to Reagans except for scenes where Reagan is show as slow to react to AIDS epidemic and believes it to be divine punishment to gays; cancelled from pressure of Republican White House/Congress; organized interest group pressure can change content of TV
- Kingdom of Heaven
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- TV-14
- TV rating; adopted 1997-present; threat of outside regulation leads to self-regulation; possibly made TV raunchier, hey we warned them
- collective unconscious
- The purpose for studying genres; finds out what genres say about people; infer things about the collective unconscious from genre study
- Law and Order
- TV cop show show; Both sides see the other's propaganda in TV shows; example of a discussion of public issues without a left/right slant
- Desperate Housewives
- combination of different genres: soap opera, comedy mystery; primetime TV series (2004-present)
- Notel
- small town in Pediatrics Journal study 2004; town on Southern Canadian border with no TV; highest test scores initially; scores dropped to level of Multitel after introduction of TV
- soap opera
- daytime TV genre; 80% female audience; represent what TV thinks women want to see; families in small community; deal with typical problems; talk about problems as opposed to solving; painful lives, but no suicide; apolitical; anti-political, everything is personal
- Viti Levu
- American TV introduced to this small Fiji village by Harvard Medical School study in 1998; bulimia increased; self acceptance problems; wanted to look like the western women on TV
- TV as right-wing
- TV is supportive of American institutions and values
- V, S
- ratings system was criticized and amended to appease Parent's Groups and politicians; groups trying to have effect on what goes on the air; V=violence, S=sex
- surrogate family
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- Seventh Heaven
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- Fat and Happy
- 2000 documentary hosted by Alan Alda; Couch Potato Kids: calorie use/burning and television; TV tends to add to obesity problems of children; TV has various bad effects on children
- 8000 murders
- before 8th grade, average child has seen 8000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence; violence risen on prime-time TV; attempts to change programming on TV
- bobo doll
- (bop bag) experiment held in 1940s; kids placed in room with bobo doll and hammer, nothing happened; second group show movie where adult hits bag with hammer and the kids followed suit when placed with bag and hammer; people's behavior can become more violent as a result of violent media
- ACT
- Action for Children's Television; formed in Boston 1968 by concerned mothers (of course) dealing with violence on TV and excessive commercialization; became largest national organization in 80s and got Family Viewing Time (8-9pm EST) established (later thrown out by Supreme Court) disbanded in 1990s
- Hays Office
- Colloquial name for Hollywood's bureau of self-censorship, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, as administered by its first president (1922-45), Will Hays.
- the transcendent genre
- Sci-Fi; transcends mediums; allows imaginations to transcend reality of our situation; asks what if; greatest freedom of imagination; construct alternate version of the future
- 17000 Hours
- average American has watched 17000 hours of TV by the time they graduate from High School; must be some effect; more than most life activities
- Stargate SG-1
- Anti-Star Trek; TV series 1997-2008; military adventurers travel universe fighting evil aliens helping good ones; adult problems: project onto aliens; problems of earth aren't solved; counter myth of the future
- The Birth of a Nation
- 1915 motion picture; NAACP sued all over the place and film was removed; director was first to claim First Amendment protection of film
- OWI
- Disseminated propaganda through films, magazines & other entertainment media; Censored movie content; Encouraged publishers to include war messages in their periodicas; Famous for "Woman power project"
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- 1988 motion picture; People tried to censor it because it was offensive to Christians; example of problems created within a pluralist society in which films are offensive to certain groups
- Anthony Adverse
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- a dying genre
- sitcom; pro-social genre; reinforces the family; people less interested in viewing shows that are pro-social family reinforcers
- Shane
- 1953 motion picture. Western. hero rides out of wilderness and saves civilization and rides back; pro-social; transition from rural to urban; does not stop to fish
- Broadcast Standards Office
- self-regulation within a network; inconsistent rulings; more lenient with sex and violence over the years
- Multitel
- small town on Southern Canadian Border in Pediatrics Journal study 2004; received all three networks; lowest test scores initially; stayed steady till end of study
- Nation Television Violence Study
- 1995 study; correlational evidence; heavy viewers of violent shows show increased acceptance of aggressive attitude/behavior and is fairly stable in time, place, and demographics
- society of consumption
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- Star Trek
- TV series, 1966-69; four spinoffs, 8-9 films; optimistic vision of the future; major problems (poverty, racism, systematic injustice) of earth solved; problems exist elsewhere and earthlings bring enlightenment; future is rational and human
- NYPD Blue
- Bochco TV show (1993-2005); *******, partial nudity; could not have been aired through history of TV; more lenient standards; causes the public to demand more regulation
- horror
- brings to life repressed anti social tendencies people have, desires they can't express; more explicit, monster doesn't always lose, evolution in anti-social direction; evolved from pro-social to anti-social
- western
- most important genre in Hollywood history; american west after the civil war to the 20th century (1865-1900); civilized people face barbarians in a situation of lawlessness; Helped Americans deal with urbanization