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Showcase Post 1- Mad Men A Cultural Phenomenon | Hannah Jenkins Television Cultures Online Journal
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Hannah Jenkins Television Cultures Online Journal. So what is television? Showcase Post 1- Mad Men A Cultural Phenomenon. On October 11, 2012. Don Draper a liar, philanderer, demeaning towards the people he works with and unfaithful to his wife. Mad Men defines the uncomfortable truths of the 1960s including sexism, racism and homophobia. But does it achieve this or not? Or is this all part of the shows strategy and appeal? Jason Mittell argues that we don’t need three act structures, in reality pe...
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Comments I have made throughout the course…. | Hannah Jenkins Television Cultures Online Journal
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Hannah Jenkins Television Cultures Online Journal. So what is television? Comments I have made throughout the course…. On October 11, 2012. Nadia Petrov- Week 10 (Reality TV: Origins and Contexts). Freya Cole- Week 8 (Big Love, Big Drama). Sophie Lane- Week 9 (Mad Men). Larr; Showcase Post 1- Mad Men A Cultural Phenomenon. Showcase Post 2- What’s Real About Reality TV? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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August | 2012 | Hannah Jenkins Television Cultures Online Journal
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Hannah Jenkins Television Cultures Online Journal. So what is television? All posts for the month August, 2012. Girls as princesses, boys as knights…think again! On August 30, 2012. We also discussed the impact of fans on pop culture. In Ginia Bellanfante ‘A Fantasy World of Strange Kingdoms’. New York Times review she patronisingly argues that female viewers are only drawn to the show for its sex and romance and not for any other aspect of the show. Although Bellanfante has put forward some contenti...
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SHOWCASE POST: Why we love Reality TV | Me and TV
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About Me…. and TV. Channelling in to Television Cultures. SHOWCASE POST: Why we love Reality TV. October 8, 2012. There is a page on Wikipedia literally called ‘List of reality television programs’ that tries to list all reality TV shows ever aired. Check it out here. While it DOES state that the list is incomplete, how could a project like this ever even come close to be being finished? There’s something about it that draws us to it. Perhaps it is what I discussed in my post last week. With shows like t...
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The KKK: Kim, Kourtney, Khloe | taylagentle
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The Deal (about me). The KKK: Kim, Kourtney, Khloe. October 2, 2012. I sat down yesterday to begin my research for this post. I turned on my laptop and I fired up the RMIT Library page. I typed reality television into the search area. And what was the first recommended book title? None other than ‘101 Amazing Kim Kardashian Facts’ by Frankie Taylor and Jack Goldstein. The first thought which sprang to mind- ‘These men must be. Despite attempts to market the series as ‘unscripted’, you cannot possibly wat...
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July | 2012 | Hannah Jenkins Television Cultures Online Journal
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Hannah Jenkins Television Cultures Online Journal. So what is television? All posts for the month July, 2012. Hollywood: The rise of TV (2005). On July 25, 2012. The rise of television over movies:. There has been a major shift in recent times from movies to TV, with big name directors, produces and Hollywood actors flocking to the TV screens over the big time blockbusters. Winning over the networks:. It takes a certain type of person to want produce a show:. The hit HBO series Sex and the City. So why n...
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MAD for MAD MEN | Hannah Jenkins Television Cultures Online Journal
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Hannah Jenkins Television Cultures Online Journal. So what is television? MAD for MAD MEN. On September 26, 2012. 8220;The series not only transports its viewers to a world in which the clothes are glamorous, the liquor flows freely, and the characters spoke cigarettes without any fear for their health or that they will be socially ostracised.”. Why is Mad Men quality TV? Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Don’s clients are convinced by the nostalgia, but are we? The slides in this scene, records of “ha...
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Hannah Jenkins Television Cultures Online Journal. So what is television? All posts by hannahjenkins1073. Showcase Post 2- What’s Real About Reality TV? On October 11, 2012. Reality TV can be defined as, “a genre of television programming in which ‘real life’ people are followed in a situation or game.” But can we simply define this broad genre by one definition? Andrejevic puts it simply there is, “an appeal to the real.” (Andrejevic, M, 2004). Su Holmes lists three definitions of reality TV. However, o...
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Quality TV – It’s Maddening | Me and TV
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About Me…. and TV. Channelling in to Television Cultures. Quality TV – It’s Maddening. September 25, 2012. Even after all these weeks I am still quite uncertain as to what constitutes ‘quality’ television. Part of it, I think, is definitely brand association particularly in regards to HBO and their almost. Of ‘quality’. Other shows like Mad Men that are not affiliated with HBO can be seen to be quality because of their likeness to other HBO dramas. Ability to represent difficult/adult/taboo subjects.
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Reality TV, babies, and other things. | Me and TV
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About Me…. and TV. Channelling in to Television Cultures. Reality TV, babies, and other things. September 29, 2012. Annette Hill describes reality TV as ‘located in border territories, between information and entertainment, documentary and drama’ (pg. 2). She also mentions that it can be referred to as ‘popular factual television’, which I find interesting, as clearly, reality TV does not. Depict facts. Or perhaps it does depict fact, but only in portions small enough to cloud the. Footage from surveilla...
