Soap Opera

The Reality TV Show I chose for this assignment is The Bachelor. This TV show is very dramatic and definitely leaves you on the edge of your seat. The Bachelor is about one man who is looking to find love, and approximately 20 women competing for his love. In the season I chose to watch, Sean Lowe is the bachelor. Each week he sends another women home until he is left with his future wife. The three episodes I chose to watch were the last three of the season. Which included the home town dates, the final two, and then the finale, where Sean picked the women he wants to spend the rest of his life with. This show is definitely odd; however, it is extremely entertaining. The audience for this show is typically female teenagers and

This show portrays women being just as strong as men on many occasions, for example:

Therefore, the foreshadowing in the story creates suspense for both the characters and the readers.

The writer must know what information to dole out and what to withhold. It’s the withholding of information that creates suspense, but the writer must also play fair with the reader. Give the reader enough to form educated guesses about what comes next.

Definition: Soap operas are television dramas that originated in the U.S., yet have become a strong part of Hispanic culture. These soap operas showcase a fairytale-like life of people.

Soap operas brought the classification of characters in society and writing to a gender specific code. Allowing us to identify people as such in any interchangeable show, portraying a matriarchy rather than societies typical patriarchy. Ideas became tied to certain looks or occupations, such as the ingénue usually being a single blonde or the professional being the character always in the environment of their employment but never

Goal of Author: The goal of the author is to use different perspectives to show how reality tv is a genre and how it changes in different social contexts.

Such as how he pulls you in and really makes you wonder what going to happen next. “He explained World War 1 and Erik Vandenburg and then the visit to the fallen soldier’s wife. “The boy who came into the room that day is the man upstairs. Verstehst? Understand?” (Zusak 202) The author has a created a situation that will most likely have a negative outcome and as readers we have the overwhelming need to know if what we think will happen is really going to happen. If you are not truly invested in the outcome of the story and are just reading, it to read it then then there is no point in reading it because then it is no longer for enjoyment it just becomes a hassle.

When it comes to television and movie films there are many of the same elements that may only be different by the slightest of things, but one thing that will always stay constant is when the show and/or film is created, the time period of the world is intertwined through the characters gender roles. When comparing a 1950’s show to today’s favorites, gender roles would be very different challenging and reinforcing stereotypes due to how women and men were portrayed in the world in the past and the present. Women especially, have been challenged in the working field for time and time again and in the show Grey’s Anatomy (season 12 episode 7), it is clear how the creators not only reinforced typical male and female stereotypes but challenged them in the same few moments of a scene as well. Grey’s Anatomy reinforces how women are thought to be, challenge the position a women holds, reinforces a dominant male stereotype, and challenges male stereotypes of emotion.

When I was in the third grade I was extremely obsessed with the Nickelodeon soap opera, House of Anubis. If you’ve never heard of it before, it was centered around an American teengaer in a British boarding school where the faculty was involved in some strange cult obsessed with Egyptian mythology and “The Chosen One.” On top of that there was four love triangles, child kidnapping, carrot eating competitions, masquerade balls, a disturbing amount of taxidermy, and a crapload of other random things. Yeah, that existed.

Television, since its inception, has had a knack at being a mirror for the current state of society. Through this medium, one is easily able to spot the changes our culture has gone through since TV was first created. One example of this social shift, is that of the woman's role in television starting from the 50’s to the present. In 1950’s

The television show stands to be viewed as if it was filmed on a handheld camera. The show has the tendency to be extremely awkward and people who do not take the time to watch a full episode will anticipate that the show may be identified as dull and a waste of time. One would feel that the show may be simple with no plot or meaning. However, after watching an entire episode, one will realize that a complex plot is not necessary to enjoy the show because of the awkward and entertaining relationships between the characters. Although, there are several plot twists that may catch the viewer’s

In conclusion, the show Modern Family reveals several of these social issues that can be looked at in a sociologist perspective, like stereotypes represented in the family ideology, gender roles contradicting societal norms through Mitchel and Cam’s relationship, the pressure society puts in order to be accepted, and the impact of technology in our society. There are many social forces in television shows that have the capacity to influences the norms of society. These social forces can be looked at through a sociological perspective, whether that is by examining one’s sociological imagination, relating individual problems to social issues or through gender roles and social class. Although sometimes media can have negative consequences, it

Modleski argues that soap operas are crucial in understanding women’s role in today’s culture. She claims that in viewing soap operas, the viewer can identify with each of the characters together, and is able to jump between each of the characters instantly, as she sets herself up emotionally with all of them. In the essay, Modleski states that “the family is, for many women, their only support, and soap operas offer the assurance of its immortality” (Modleski 131). The viewer that Modelski is referencing to is the mother, hence carrying out to all plot improvements and new events, although even in this state of explanation she does not, or cannot, create a particular bias or take an interest in just one of her ‘children’ over another (133). She suggests that being in this position of the ‘good mother’ popular culture can change one’s concept of self and one’s identity. In depicting opposed themes such as good

It is often said that the media and the arts are an accurate reflection of any given community. This is especially true in American pop-culture, where television shows depict the various stereotypes attributed to men and women and the roles they play in society. House, a highly popular medical drama that revolves around Dr. Gregory House and his diagnostic team, is a particularly good example as it represents the true state of the traditional gender roles in American culture today by, both, redefining and reinforcing them over the course of the show.