Posts Tagged ‘ Article Review ’

There is also a new trend in malls today. It is the commodification of nature, or the increasingly pervasive commercial trend that views and uses nature as a sales gimmick or marketing strategy, as is manifest in production of replicas or simulations. Fountains, bubbling brooks, trees, and other elements of nature are reproduced and...
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Leave it to Beaver has received substantial attention from television scholars. These discourses include popular understandings of second-wave feminism encouraged by media coverage of feminist activity, the generic parameters and functions of situation comedy, and the history of television representations of women. Leave it to Beaver is a fitting «baseline» example because of its...
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King of Queens is the easiest to define as the post-feminist sitcom. King of Queens’s plot is about two divorced mothers, who were friends since childhood, and who now live together in the apartment in New York, bringing up their three children together. It is like the domestic comedy with a slight twist that...
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This article discuses, analyzes and compares the feminism-related TV sitcoms of 1950-70s with current sitcoms. Both groups of sitcoms are focused on the life of thirtieth, unmarried, working women and their network of friends and co-workers in USA. Their authors were described by reviewers and critics as an example of original programming both during...
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This article gives the analysis of the Italian film industry in general and then goes on to the film “Cinema Paradiso”. In 1942 there was screened “Four Steps in the Clouds” directed by Blasetti. This film is about a humble employee and it is regarded as the first work of Italian neorealism. When the...
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Sitcoms worked to naturalize woman’s place in the home, and, as the Leonard review quoted above indicated, at the time of All in the Family‘s debut, sitcoms depicting women within familial settings were still a dominant form. The significance of the shift from this premise was underscored by the career trajectory of Brady Bunch...
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This article is concentrated on the Internet phenomenon and on the spreading of the Internet culture and its effects on people. Manuel Castells is broadly regarded as the chief analyst of the Information Age and the Network Society. The present paper reflects on Castells’ short and informative book “The Internet Galaxy”. In his book...
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Big Brother is an important figure of the novel. He is not a real person and no one has ever seen him. This character personifies all dictators – Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Francisco Franco and the others. Big Brother is a powerful leader and a Godlike figure. He knows everything and is everywhere. Big...
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There are many facets to the consumer or mall goer: as shopper, as chooser, as communicator, as character explorer, as pleasure seeker, as rebel, as victim, as activist, and as citizen. As shoppers, mall goers’ time is characterized by window shopping and malling; exploring and shopping have become one. The consumer, in having a...
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The traditions of media coverage of sexism issues change in the late 1980s and in 1990s. One final sign of the ascendance of post-feminism in 1990s television was the decline of the primary form for representing feminism in 1980s television: the single working-woman sitcom. The longest and the most typical running shows of this...
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