Three Genres of Television Shows Essay

among parents and researchers that children exposed to television absorb the social gender implications represented within the television programming. Children between the ages 2 – 11 years, on average, spend more time watching television than they typically spend in any other activity besides school and sleep. The amount of time spent in front of a television screen provides enough evidence to call television one of the dominant microsystems in a child’s life that both informs and maintains their conceptions of how a certain gender should behave and act like (Leaper et al, 2002). This paper will be analyzing the extent of how males and females are portrayed within television programming that children are most likely to watch. More specifically the analysis will compare results across different genres of television shows that children will watch. The genres examined were PBS shows, cartoons, and sit-coms. These three genres were coded with five general sex-typed traits and behaviors divided by gender and by a traditional or nontraditional orientation. The main characters in each show viewed were coded with this traits based upon their gender and if their behaviors/traits were traditional or not. The six shows viewed were “Arthur,” and “Clifford the Big Red Dog” in the PBS show genre, “SpongeBob SquarePants,” and “Scooby Doo,…

The readings from this week were “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess” by Linda Williams and “Mega-Melodrama! Vertical and Horizontal Suspension of the ‘Classical,’” which is also by Linda Williams. The thesis that was articulated for “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess” reads “This essay explores the notion that there may be some value in thinking about the form, function, and system of seemingly gratuitous excesses in these three genres… My hope, therefore, is that by thinking…

Joanne Morreale’s “Revisiting The Osbournes: The Hybrid Reality Sitcom”(2003) asserts that the Osbournes reality television show was a surprising hit between 2001 and 2002. Morreale backs up her claim in saying that their television show was one of the highest rated programs on cable television and also the most successful series in MTV’s twenty-one year history. The reality sitcom follows the lives of Ozzy Osbourne, his wife Sharon, and Jack and Kelly. The television show began being moved to…

Paranormal television is a genre of reality television. Its scope comprises purportedly factual investigations of paranormal phenomena, rather than fictional representations found in such shows and movies as Scooby-Doo, Ghostbusters, and Rentaghost. In the print media reports of supernatural occurrences have always been common. When TV became more and more popular stations needed to find way of differentiating themselves. Starting in the 1960’s TV stations began to feature ghost stories. This…

Defining genres for television shows has always been a difficult task, and the sheer amount of shows airing today makes this process even tougher. Not only are there hundreds of shows that are prevalent in network television, but due to the rise in popularity of streaming sites such as Netflix, there are also many shows that get their start on these sites without ever premiering on TV. This saturation in the market of TV shows has obviously produced many different genres of TV shows, and the…

In today’s society, reality TV shows have become the most popular and viewed genre on television. Reality shows are based on people’s real life situations that people shows to the audience. People in the world are more interested in watching reality shows versus scripted shows, unless the script show is very eye catching. Cynthia M. Frisby, is an associate professor of advertising at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, and coeditor of Journalism across Cultures. Frisby…

The new TV show Scream Queens premiered September 22, 2015 on FOX. Scream Queens is about the Kappa Kappa Tau sorority house, who is being targeted by several killers dressed in a red devil outfit. The shows is part slasher flick and black comedy with a modern take on the classic whodunit. Even though there is violence, gore and the use of sexual language, the show demonstrates to be more satirical than terrifying. In addition, Scream Queens is a unique show because it’s like a parody, pocking…

The term television music is a term of all music that is broadcast on television. It has functioned in several different ways, reflecting the array of genres and modes of broadcasting. It has also been called as “production music,” to emphasize dramatic programs, enhance mood and narrative structure and meaning, which is similar to music’s function in films, and as a way to mark transitions within a television program and between programs. Scholarships have claimed that the function of music on…

Television as almost everything in life has had an evolution. The way we think of television is very different than the way our ancestors did. Television has been around since the late 1920’s. However, back in the day it was a very expensive luxury that only the elite could afford. With the passage of years television became more accessible and as a consequence more popular. In the 1950’s television was considered to be the primary medium in which many families gathered their information.…

Watching television has become a big part of American culture today in society. There is a wide range of different shows not only on television but offered through other online services like Netflix or Amazon. Genre in television shows vary from comedy to drama, but horror genre has made a comeback on television and continues to be popular. The term "horror" to describe as a genre would not be used until after Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931. Cuddon (1984)…