Essays on Television Page 6

While going over video and hundreds of photographs depicting the Israeli army evict Jewish settlers from Gaza and the West Bank, I suddenly understood the legendary Jewish predilection to exaggerate. Some Jews were actually smiling as they were being dragged from their homes while others cried. Some were laughing in the background. Others, mostly women,…

In a lot of films, film directors use bias when making a film. They use it to make people feel or influence for or against someone or something. Bias means a feeling or influence for or against someone or something it can also mean a tendency to swerve and also a slanting direction. Peter Medak…

I went to visit the gallery of Wu Ju Lim’s Ruined Traces (West Gallery) and Broken Landscape (East Gallery) opened at the Patrick Painter Gallery in Santa Monica. I chose her because I was quite interested in her work when I was searching online for which museum or gallery I should go. Won Ju Lim…

    There is always a sense of care from the neighbours, especially from Veronica who claimed to have previously trained as a nurse. Frank, the father, is represented exactly how you would stereotype a male of his age that lives on an estate, an unemployed alcoholic. One thing he is not though is aggressive;…

  ITV as a commercial television had an absolutely different goals than BBC, it wanted to catch the people’s attention, and they wanted them to watch their advertising, so their main focus was on the entertaining programmes. Instead of creating their own film etc. ITV was mainly buying American shows, for instance westerns such was…

    To him, television was not a defined and limited medium but was a kind of performance object with which he could perform through his imagination and rage against conformity. By doing so; Nam June Paik hopes challenge idea the idea of television as a medium and domain exclusively controlled by a monopoly of…

In this piece of work I am going to be looking at reality TV and many of the issues involved. ‘Big Brother’ is just one example of a very successful reality TV show. Other good examples are ‘Survivor’, ‘Jerry Springer’ and ‘I’m a Celebrity get me out of here’. All these shows are made in…

  These points illustrate that whilst there are a great many potential benefits from a democratised world, there exist some potential issues that must be successfully addressed for the citizens of both newly democratised and Western states to benefit. It is both inevitable and important to question the morality of one state intervening in the…

‘The Simpson’s’ is an animated television series showing adventures of the Simpson family. In particular it focuses on Bart Simpson, the family’s 10 year old son. The show is enjoyed by a wide audience, from children to adults. One of the most recognizable aspects of the cartoon is its title sequence which is, in it…

The Joy Luck Club. This interesting novel portrays the stories of 8 women, 4 daughters and their mothers. They are separated not only by the generational barrier, but also by a much more powerful one, the barrier of cultures. The daughters are all Chinese-American, having adopted traits of both cultures, yet leaning towards the American…