CAT 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Emmett Till, Hypermasculinity, Civil Rights Act Of 1964
26 Jan 2017
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Pay attention to the camera movements that are shown, it"s important. Actual television in film serves as a rhetorical figure for the loss of communication between family members (spigel 36) Television was depicted as a panacea for the broken homes and hearts of wartime life (spigel 2-3) Television is 100% capital market; they are trying to sell you something or get you to do something. Television brings the outside world into the home. Family togetherness: magazine and advisements depicted the idea of family circle with the television viewers grouped around the television set in semicircle patterns (spigel 40). Commercial breaks allowed for discussion and family to talk together. Ending a scene with a cliffhanger to make you inclined to keep watching. Civil rights movement is the first televised news story. Tv was psychological refuge, a fortress for white middle class americans. The content of fictional/entertainment shows did not challenge the existing systems (edgerton 274)
