How Families in the Media Works
Published on Mar 25, 2016
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This course is about how the portrayals of the American family in the media have changed over the years
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We will mostly focus on the American family on television...we will add just two films
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We will start with television in the 1950s and go through the 1990s
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We will focus on half hour situation comedies
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We will focus on the most popular situational comedy of the decade
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We will examine one show per decade
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Each week I will make you an "Influence of the Medium" video to give you more information about the television industry during that decade
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Each week I will make you an "Influence of the Decade" video to give you more information about the decade and its effect on television
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Most weeks, I will ask you to watch an episode and identify messages about fathers and mothers
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We do this to examine how the portrayal of the American family on television affects us and our expectations
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So we will not only learn how the portrayal of the American family has changed but we will also learn how portrayals affect us
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At the end of the quarter, I will ask you for your honest opinion about how the portrayals have changed over the years
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