Award-winning academic, novelist, and biographer Christopher Bigsby explores a changing America through modern television in his book "Viewing America: Twenty-First Century Television Drama." A major discussion point of Bigsby's book is the manner in which America could have a dialogue with itself through television drama. ... Teen-dramas such as Gossip Girl are exceptional examples of how even though television is fictional, it can make a pretty clear statement about the world. Despite being exceptional avenues of illustrating social issues, television dramas can be deceiving, ...

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By looking at Cartoons, Comedies, Dramas and Realities, Gottfried and his team found that "Dramas on average presented significantly more risk and responsibility messages [of sex and sexuality] than cartoons, comedies, and reality programs" (Gottfried et al, 83, my brackets). Comparing the two studies that were done, if teens are exposed to sexual acts and especially in a drama series, they are more likely to accelerate their sexual activity. Teens are exposed to media almost all the time, every day, and even if a teenager is not watching a marathon of dramas per say, the amount of...

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Introduction Many children watch television everyday, and recent studies indicate that children watch between three to four hours of television a day. ... According to a recent study, three out of four hour-long programs on network television contain some sort of sexual content (Kaiser Family Foundation, 1996). ... Recent studies have been conducted that provide notable statistics regarding the amount of sexual content in television. ... Not all of the programs that deal with sexual situations are written just for humor or drama. According to this study, 6% of the shows containing sexual...

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In an interview that took place in 1980, Juan Rulfo commented: Yes, there is a structure in Pedro Paramo but it is one constructed of silences, hanging threads, and truncated scenes, where everything happens simultaneously in a non-time. I tried to allow the reader the chance to collaborate with the...

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