scholarly journals Food Messages on African American Television Shows

2003 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manasi A. Tirodkar ◽  
Anjali Jain
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Television ◽  
Television Shows

How I May Destroy You Reinvents Rape Television

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-105
Author(s):  
Caetlin Benson-Allott
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Rape Culture ◽  
American Television ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Black Life ◽  
Assault Survivors

British and American television shows frequently deploy rape and sexual assault to juice up characters’ backstories or titillate viewers, but they rarely focus on how one assault impacts multiple people’s lives or how intersectional oppression further traumatizes assault survivors. FQ columnist Caetlin Benson-Allott suggests that this may change in the wake of Michaela Coel’s incendiary series I May Destroy You (BBC One and HBO, 2020), which has answered a need for more artistically ambitious television about black life and for feminist-of-color critiques of rape culture on television. Hailing the series for its formal innovations as well as its generic and political interventions, Benson-Allott argues that I May Destroy You elevates its genre, and television more broadly, by contesting their prior shortcomings.

scholarly journals BLACK SITUATIONAL COMEDIES: A LEGACY OF STEREOTYPES, IDEOLOGY, AND HEGEMONY

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Donald Morgan
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Males ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
The Social ◽  
Black Sitcoms ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Media Narratives

The purpose of this essay is to outline re-occurring archetypes that are found within the confines of “Black Sitcoms”. This essay demonstrates how these archetypes perpetuate negative stereotypes about teenage, African American males, under the guise of comedy and entertainment. This is accomplished by introducing the two most utilized archetypes that represent the black, teenaged, male which are prevalent in black sitcoms, along with examples of said archetypes. In doing so, this article also demonstrates a dichotomy between these two character types, in an attempt to highlight disturbing acceptance of certain media narratives about the African American community. Furthermore, explanations are provided as to how each archetype preys upon negative stereotypes and sociological taboos within the African American community, which results in negative impacts on the social consciousness of the African American community. What is more, this essay examines the negative ideology and subsequent hegemony that these television shows produce. Finally, I conclude with my own thoughts, regarding these issues.Keywords:   African American, situational comedies, archetype, ideology, hegemony, stereotypes

scholarly journals Violations of Grice’s conversational conventions as humour in Irish and American television comedies

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 94-109
Author(s):  
Brian M Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
American Television ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
The Simpsons ◽  
Chi Squared ◽  
Popular Television

Scripts of two popular television shows, the American show ‘The Simpsons’ and the Irish show ‘Father Ted,’ were assessed in the context of Grice’s (1975) conventions of conversational coherence. Episodes with similar subject matter were compared. Grice’s conventions are appropriate parameters for comparison given that much humour is based on conversational misunderstandings. Chi-squared tests revealed significant differences between the two shows in violations of the conventions of ‘Matter’ and ‘Relation’, but no differences in violations categorized as ‘Quality’ or ‘Other’. Specifically, the Irish show contained more violations of the convention of Quality than did the American show, whereas the opposite was true with regard to the convention of Manner. Implications of such analyses of contrived humour for the understanding of language comprehension are discussed.

A Preliminary Analysis of Tyler Perry’s ‘House of Payne’ and ‘Meet the Browns’: Effect on the Black Identity, African Americans’ Frequency of Exposure, Perception of Accuracy and Affective Evaluation

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
George W. Musambira ◽  
Nicole E. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
African American Churches ◽  
Affective Evaluation ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
American Churches ◽  
Group Experience

A survey method was applied to a sample of 145 self-identified African American members of four predominantly African American churches to assess the influence of Tyler Perry’s House of Payne and Meet the Browns television shows on their racial identity and how they perceived and evaluated the shows. Results indicate that (1) particular socioeconomic factors, more specifically education attainment, may negatively influence exposure to House of Payne and Meet the Browns, 2) religiosity may account for viewers’ exposure more to House of Payne than to Meet the Browns, 3) House of Payne may have a more significant influence on viewers” black identity than Meet the Browns, 4) Frequency of exposure, income, and education may predict affective evaluation and perceived accuracy of both House of Payne and Meet the Browns, and 5) House of Payne may be considered a more accurate and positive reflection of the black group experience than Meet the Browns.

scholarly journals Spreading vampirism: Viral disease models in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Freedland
Keyword(s):  
Computational Modeling ◽  
Viral Infection ◽  
Future Study ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Viral Disease ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
Buffy The Vampire Slayer ◽  
American Television ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Biological Studies

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) and its companion series Angel (1999-2004) were American television shows that contrasted the behavior and physicality of human characters from their vampiric counterparts. Throughout both series, humans transform into vampires via a process (“siring”) that can be closely linked to clinical and biological studies. Here, we predict that vampirism is the result of a viral infection that spreads throughout the bloodstream within 24 hours. We use computational modeling to simulate the siring process and propose a series of mechanisms for introducing vampiric phenotypes into human subjects. We hope that this investigation provides a robust scientific description of vampirism for future study and serves as a resource for future Buffy-related works.

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